Volume 17
An Online Literary Magazine
March 6, 2023

 

The Bad Angel Brothers

Fiction

Paul Theroux

 

You’re seldom suspicious when you’re happy...

Once a Shipmate

Nonfiction

Craig Moodie

 

I see him on the afterdeck, muscling in brawny bass as the boat bashes stern-first into toppling breakers...

Playing Hobo: A Jim McCormick Story

Nonfiction

Will Brooks

 

I told my brother we were going to ride the rails. He wasn’t so sure about this and protested that we’d get in trouble...

 

Writing to me is a process of life, and so is travel. I don't know of any writer or traveler I admire who retired from these efforts. - Paul Theroux Photo: Steve McCurry.

 

Fresh Air Fiend: An Interview with Paul Theroux

Interview

Nick O’Connell

 

Travel writing forces the traveler to observe details of people and landscapes and to draw conclusions, and it becomes a historical record of a particular place and time...

Postlude

Fiction

Shih-Li

 

The white lies I was hearing contorted Mama into the shape of the entryway to heaven. I wondered if she made it...

The Gift Kala Gave Me

Nonfiction

Kristen Skedgell

 

How dare you, God, to say you love me and keep the secrets of the universe from me? I guess no one could ever accuse me of having too much humility...

Editor's Note

Nonfiction

Nick O’Connell

 

Writers need heroes...

 

 

 

 

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