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"Talkin' Bout Practice": This Essay Isn't About the NBA Finals...
Alyssa Oursler
This Essay Isn't About the NBA Finals Because No One Here Cares About the NBA Finals
Jurgen Klopp, the coach of Liverpool’s soccer team, wears a black shirt and pale-framed glasses, just like the
"Talkin' Bout Practice": Ray Allen
Alyssa Oursler
The man I love who does not love me back sends me someone else’s tweet. The only text is a hashtag: Notre Dame. The video hasn’t loaded. A week before, the Notre Dame women’s basketball team made it
"Talkin' Bout Practice": quitters
Alyssa Oursler
The first doctor who called said I couldn’t play. The scan showed stress fractures and the only remedy was rest. It would have been a blessing the diagnosis came between seasons but, for me,
"Talkin' Bout Practice": for coach
Alyssa Oursler
The world does not write enough odes
to in-betweenness—the way you can be
together / feel apart / apart / feel together.
In a room of dozens, in a city of millions,
the mashing of MacBook keys
"Talkin' Bout Practice": Playing Time
Alyssa Oursler
As teenagers, my friends and I spent Friday nights driving backroads, throwing soda cans at street signs. The wind would be cold, the music would be loud, and sometimes, a can would bounce back and
Hinterland Transmissions: Tackling Homelessness
Steve Anwyll
The bum drags himself off the floor. Then comes on nice. Real buddy buddy shit.
Hinterland Transmissions: SUMAC, Dälek and Infernal Coil
Steve Anwyll
And christ it's gonna be hot inside the tiny bar where SUMAC is playing tonight. I should've stayed home. Like I always do. An old man on his couch.
Hinterland Transmissions: All The Makings Of A Real Bad Day
Steve Anwyll
Then I hear it. Loud as the train coming into the station. Fuckinragabagagrrahfuuck. Ah ha. Of course. The unmistakable call of the down and out drunk.
Forever Ago
Bud Smith
Radio Tower, 4yrs old
The radio tower had big cones on top. We were in the car and I said to mom, “What are those?” She didn't know so she said, “Oh, that's where Mickey Mouse lives.” I was
Hinterland Transmissions: No Day At The Beach
Steve Anwyll
Had a little accident last night Stevie, my boss yells. Tote fell over in the back of a truck. Someone's gotta clean up all that fish. I turn my head from him. Stare off out passed the end of the harbour. Where the horizon and Lake Eerie meet. Dissolve into one another. The breeze in my hair. Thinking why me?
Hinterland Transmissions: A Day In Dust Bunny City
Steve Anwyll
I don't like most people. And have been jealous of Bud for ages. With reason.
Hinterland Transmissions: The Piece Of Shit That Lives Inside Me
Steve Anwyll
Now here I am. The same fucking predicament all over. The universe testing to see what I'll do.
Hinterland Transmissions: Coming to America
Steve Anwyll
Sitting in the Montreal bus terminal I make a decision. To eat the last of my weed candies.
Wow and Flutter #6: Shelley Coburn
Tyler Koshakow
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My father died on Christmas Eve, 1986. I was three years old. When my mother broke the news, I responded in a startling way. "Death is just a figure of speech," I told her. Of course, at age
Hinterland Transmissions: Carnie Love
Steve Anwyll
It must've been the late nineties. I was collecting welfare at the time. I couldn't have been more then 17. Summer vacation was coming to an end. The high school I attended was close to my
dimanche le 20 mai 2017
Steve Anwyll
1.
I cut through the small park. Come out the other side. As soon as I do I feel eyes on me. I look up from the sidewalk. He's standing down the block and on the other side of the busy cross
Hinterland Transmissions: Folly At The Laundromat
Steve Anwyll
Of course the laundromat goes quiet. I glance around. We're all shocked. I catch the eyes of a little girl. Hair in pigtails. She looks scared.
Book Report: Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
Steve Anwyll
I came at reading this book as I do most things. Like a fool. I expected what the cover hinted at. A memoir. Some casual retelling of Norm's life. I expected quaint takes of rural Canadian life
Wow and Flutter #5: A1A
Tyler Koshakow
By the time Zoe and I started down the Overseas Highway, we had been living a nomadic lifestyle out of our 1995 Corolla for nearly four months.
WHO STOLE MY TAMPONS?????
Chelsea Martin
I got my period the moment we got to the hotel. Getting my period wasn’t going to affect any of my plans, and was no big deal, really, aside from the fact that I refuse to pay attention to my body so am always completely surprised when my period comes. As such, I had brought no supplies to Miami with me.
Wow and Flutter #4: Be Thankful for What You Got
Tyler Koshakow
I make him coffee, I make hot chocolate for his kids, and sometimes I buy his weed.
Wow and Flutter #3: Ain’t Doing Too B-A-D, Bad
Tyler Koshakow
I wanted this essay to be about love. I wanted it to also be about my grandfather and Arkansas and my copy of Ain’t Doing Too B-A-D, Bad, a live jazz record by The Bobby Bryant Sextet.
A Recipe for Poached Pear 'Pot' Pie
Mira Gonzalez
½ cup (one stick) of unsalted butter (higher quality butter = better tasting cannabutter)
¼ ounce of weed, VERY finely ground
Recent Books
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Elizabeth Ellen
"If Elizabeth Ellen exists, I would tell her it was like she channeled the anthemic scorn of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Outta Know” through Anais Nin, in her own inimitable way. And if Elizabeth Ellen doesn’t exist, at least she can invent herself.
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Legs Get Led Astray
Chloe Caldwell
“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”
—Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD
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