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Digital Dust

By | 2017-02-23T12:11:29-08:00 January 26th, 2017|Categories: Issue 9: 26 Jan 2017|Tags: , , , |

By Pattie Palmer-Baker The agent sifts digital dust, not like stardust sprinkled on profound black, instead gray-brown specks leaking out of ATM machines, trickling from laptops, dribbling out of phones. He shapes the particles into a digital fingerprint, blots out truth messy with color, paints the grooves black and white. When the wind blows through a [...]

Peace Dreams

By | 2017-02-23T21:34:01-08:00 December 15th, 2016|Categories: Issue 3: 15 Dec 2016|Tags: , , |

By Pattie Palmer-Baker Teacher: Stop hissing orders. Streamline your body into a fish shape, float with your students in a sound-stilled ocean, flash love notes with your sequined eyes. Stockbroker: See the half-dressed man crumpled on the trash-littered sidewalk? Brake your black Mercedes, carry him to your car, rest him on the leather backseat beneath a [...]