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Lithium & High Heels

By | 2022-09-18T13:04:58-07:00 September 29th, 2022|Categories: Issue 137: 29 September 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

By Heather Dorn   Barbie’s feet come preformed for sexiness, but the rest of us must learn to curve our arches like a playground slide. We start young, even as babies, barely able to walk, staggering up church or pageant stage steps—sparkling quarter inch heels, lace dresses, makeup bruising our eyelids blue, punching our cheeks red. [...]

I don’t even remember his name

By | 2022-06-15T12:28:15-07:00 June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Issue 136: 23 June 2022|Tags: , , , |

By Sarah Gundle   Something made me think of him. For days now, it has been bothering me: I can’t remember his name. I can recall many of our conversations, the gentle character of his voice, the resignation in his eyes, but not his name. I’ve wracked my brain. I saw him almost twenty years ago [...]