“People, listen! The great lessons of philosophy and art and religion are now being reinforced by evidence from science. This may bore the poets of this world but I find it heartening, because the evidence offers a thousand mirrors, reflecting the complex but ultimately altruistic essence of...
Sierra Skye Gemma This piece first appeared in Plenitude magazine, Issue 2. Published here with permission from the author. The first time I see Stacey, I am standing in front of the courthouse on S.W. Morrison, in downtown Portland, Oregon. I’m with all the other punks in our usual spot. This is...
“Summer 1992. Her name is Lisa, and every weekday during that stolen time between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., the end of my summer job workday and when I have to go home to my mother eating oranges, in sin and in secret I kiss my first love Lisa. I am a double agent. When I’m not with her, in my...
Pamela Mosher How to prepare for the bed and breakfast lavish with tajines and import rugs, absurd with Québecois music and Americans who couldn’t afford Paris? We couldn’t believe our room of roped curtain, in-suite fireplace, and crystal wine glasses (we filled with cheap depanneur red) We...
“I’m a big fan of well-crafted writing that entertains and at the same time deals with social issues past or present. An excellent example of this is the far-too-short Morgan O’Brien series by Alex Brett. Both Dead Water Creek and Cold Dark Matter creatively explore problems serious enough to...
“Gorgeously mythic and ceremonial, Neil Bartlett’s Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall marked me when I first read it back around 1990. Its events unfold in a timeless time that somehow suggests the not-so-distant past and the aevum simultaneously, and in a place—’The Bar’—that also...
