Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue A group of men followed us down Broadway, the bustling honky tonk district in Nashville, Music City, U.S.A. They shouted to us: “Ladies, ladies, LAAADDDIIIIEES.” We stopped on the street corner and...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue My story may be more typical than I know. I was a teenager in the middle of a bitter divorce. I lived with one parent but terribly missed the other. I couldn’t have been unhappier. I rebelled, leaving...
Issue 17 / Spring 2019 This piece is a continuation of Jon Epstein’s “Ace in the Hole,” published in the Quarterly’s Issue 16, Winter 2019. A vague whisper in my gut said, “Your soul is being eclipsed by a locust cloud of misdeeds,” but I was...
Issue 17 / Spring 2019 For a long time, I believed my father was the coolest of dads. He sat cross-legged on the living room rug, bongos tucked between his knees, accompanying Morton Gould and His Orchestra on the stereo (the album was Jungle Drums). No, my dad...
Issue 17 / Spring 2019 I called Benjamin from a Paris cafe on Avenue De Clichy. “I locked the keys in the apartment.” He laughed. “Tu rigole?” He spoke in French, I spoke in English, but we understood each other. “No, I’m so sorry, but I’m not joking.”...
