Category: Travel

  • Bait (A Historical Fiction by Z. McWhorter)

    Bait (A Historical Fiction by Z. McWhorter)

    Zuri McWhorter is a multidisciplinary writer, photographer, and filmmaker from Detroit, MI. Her work has been published in various academic and creative publications around the country. She has self-published two poetry chapbooks and founded Juste Milieu Internation Literature and Art Zine. “Bait” is a historical flash fiction piece that follows a nameless young girl as…

  • Why Modern American Racism Will Exist for Another Few Hundred Years by M. Pitter

    Why Modern American Racism Will Exist for Another Few Hundred Years by M. Pitter

    The murder of Michael Brown and the police intimidation and brutality that followed has pulled today’s mainstream discourse back into ascertaining how this country’s race problems could be resolved. Resolution of this historically American issue implies a sort of eradication of racism from American society. But how could this be achieved? Modern racism (as we…

  • Seeing all that was good in the land…by G. Mramor

    Seeing all that was good in the land…by G. Mramor

    Because I was there for the parting of the lakes and I saw the sun swallowed up by a whale and yet I stood transfixed as fires from sunset ran into houses dorming families thrown together in stitches from the war’s end and I watched muted as trees bludgeoned the ends of houses till they…

  • To erase all sound…by G. Mramor

    The girls are crying on the seaboard. They swing from ropes and bash into boards, their small fat breasts half bare, clawing at their throats. The water cuts black and makes no sound. Behind the hill across the way the sun sets a waving dread behind Saint Stephen’s stand. The clouds are still, whole bodies…

  • Understanding an Artist II: David of Shanghai by M. Pitter

    Understanding an Artist II: David of Shanghai by M. Pitter

    张军伟 or David is a Chinese painter currently living and working in Shanghai. *** Among the tree-lined avenues of west Shanghai’s old French Concession, lives an artist who goes by the name of David. Surrounded by his paintings, his jars of tea and soft music fitting within the qualitative confines of soft and delightful, he…