Issue 11 / Fall 2017 When I was fifteen, I met the mechanic. The plane touched down in Atlanta in July, and my hair was still windblown from the Colorado Rockies. My mother’s words echoed as I stepped onto the tarmac: I’m bringing someone with me. I saw him...
Issue 11 / Fall 2017 Finder’s keepers, loser’s weepers “Mommy, can I keep this?” asks six-year-old Simone. “Please.” She’s holding a scrap of apple-green wrapping paper with irregular-shaped red hearts suspended in air. It was left over from wrapping a...
Issue 10 / Summer 2017 Y needs the ocean the way a thirsty tree welcomes a storm, lapping up waves even as they batter her, unraveling a thread here, a whole seam there. Too fast the water, the angry tide that comes and comes, while she stands ready to jump or...
Finding Our Inner Sense: Representation and the Cancellation of Sense8 By the Lady and the Gamer Authors’ Note: The Lady and the Gamer are thrilled at the news of the Sense8 two-hour season finale, but the sentiments shared here – written before the...
By Morgan Coyner “Minority writers really do need outlets for publishing,” says Allen Gee, editor of 2040 Books. “They need to know that their work is being considered by the most favorable editors, where bias about race or culture is not a factor. I think the...
