Issue 23 / Fall 2020 Suzanne Roberts grew up in Southern California, the daughter of an American father and an English mother. Her fondest childhood memories are those of traveling to Sequoia National Park and Mammoth Lakes, Fire Island, and to England to visit her...
Issue 23 / Fall 2020 We’re only going to be in the house for a few months, your mother tells you as you pack up the apartment into boxes. You’re going to live in this temporary house while you look for another one, because the house your family was supposed to buy, a...
Issue 23 / Fall 2020 Hear now the legend of Lady Wonder: tell her nothing, and she tells all. There she was and is and always will be, cross-tied and magisterial in her box stall, watching Mrs. Claudia D. Fonda of Chesterfield, Virginia disappear into the tack room,...
Issue 23 / Fall 2020 Two months after your suicide, I’m parked outside your university’s athletics facilities. It’s 6am. Queen’s “We are the Champions” blares from the car radio. You’re probably wondering why I’m listening to your favorite band when I never cared for...
Issue 23 / Fall 2020 Raymond Arvizu finally summoned the nerve to check on José, who hadn’t turned up at the Good Luck Café two days in a row. Raymond’s hand shook as he inserted the spare key. A smell—he nearly collapsed. He filled his old lungs, closed his eyes,...
