I have never felt so comfortedas I have at the grocery store. I have been soothed by creme-filled cakes,by the gaze of gherkins in their jars. Bad feelings — I have left out in the carto overheat and die in the gorgeousJuly weather; among weatherless aislesI wander in serenity and ease. For I have seen…
Tag: Literary
Literary Lists: Poetry Manifestos
Poetry manifestos set aside the conventional use of stanzas and rhyme, to instead describe (in many more words) exactly what poetry should stand for, look like, and even feel like. These manifestos can also be as poetic as… well… poetry…
Literary Lists: TikTok Poetry
You’ve probably heard of TikTok, the video sharing social media platform that’s taken over the internet. Especially popular with Gen Z, TikTok has over 650 million users globally and has spawned all manner of memes and cultural exports, from dance moves to viral pasta recipes…
Literary Lists: Webcomics
Webcomics may have started as a relatively simplistic medium, but throughout the 21st century they have grown and matured, as new artists experiment with what can be done within the confines of a single page. As a result, what was once a format dominated by short, surrealist jokes has blossomed into an exciting and ever-evolving branch of literature…
Social Science
“Social Science” was first published in Tuesday Magazine It is the early morning. A man, dressed in a suit, walks alone to the bus. He feels a pleasant and uplifting sense of solitude, but slowly becomes aware of a matched sense of desolation. He sighs, his feet feeling heavier than before. A researcher, hidden in…
Thicket
You didn’t go in the thicket. We all knew that. – Dan Layton was the eldest of us, and when he turned 13 he, of course, knew better. We’d heard the stories and we’d seen our mothers out at midsummer, tying ribbons to the spiked branches. We’d looked out of high windows at midwinter when…