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This Nameless World: By Joshua Willey
At the bottom of University sat the Marina. Looking east you could see up into the hills, to houses shaped like giant baritone saxophones and fragrant eucalyptus trees imported accidentally from Australia. To the immediate north was the dog track, empty and silent save on race days, when the roar of the crowd could be [...]
Photographer: Walker Esner
Walker Esner is a New York City-based editorial and commercial photographer. His main focus since graduating from the School of Visual Arts has been environmental portrait work. His inspiration is derived from the classic formal portrait made by photographers like August Sander. Taking major consideration of his frame, Walker searches for subtle quirks and surprises [...]
Chirp, Chirp, Croak: By Chantel Louise Tattoli
I was a kid being a kid watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. My favorite scene was upon us, and my sitter, my grandfather, sang along, “Just whistle while you work! Whwhwh, whwh: whw-whw, whwh—whwh whwh!” Whistling was around the bend. At the time, tinged with wizardry, unworkable along the lines of yodeling and [...]
Petite Suite Malheureuse: By Robert Wexelblatt
1. Avant la Séparation – Sonate Radiodiffusée Pour Guitare Électrique, Douloureuse et Ironique – Anthem for Divorced Children is the surprise hit album of the year. Congratulations on your two Grammies and thanks so much for agreeing to be with us this afternoon. – You’re most welcome. The awards were a great surprise, a high honor. – Your [...]
It’s Raining Today, And: By Annabella Massey
I’m riding home on the train. A man approaches and asks me whether I wouldn’t rather be riding a submarine instead? He’d take me through every canal in London. I could have my first choice of bicycle; he wouldn’t argue back or try to claim it first. He’d even get his friend to do it [...]
Once Okay Twice: By Adam Moorad
Bugs were everywhere that summer, swarming in gnat clouds on muggy nights, appearing later in the form of small red bumps on the bitten that carried them everywhere. There was no repellent for them. The day sky was always a blue becoming grey color with a dark wet horizon—as if everything perpetually sat on the [...]
Photographer: Rachel Rebibo
Rachel Rebibo was born and raised in Washington, DC, studied photography in New York City and has been living in Paris for the last 6 years. She began photographing at the young age of 10 years old and is one of the few professional photographers today who still shoots in medium format film. Rachel shoots [...]
Love for Genius: By Jim Solomone
Regrettably, the only child of Ursula and Heinrich Frankenmuth was a peculiar looking boy who, with slight arms and legs attached to an oval torso, resembled an egg in lederhosen. Compounding the deportment of his unusual carriage were his natural, effeminate mannerisms. Encountering adults found his presence awkwardly uncomfortable, but the union of his afflictions [...]
The Meat Cutter: By Curtis VanDonkelaar
II. 3:07 PM Seventy pounds. A lot of meat, and a lot of meat to waste. So, when Macon lifted the case of pork in both hands, and he could feel the cardboard giving way in the center of the box, he knew he had to move fast. If he let the box break and [...]
