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Issue 13: Places

June 2014

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 13: Places
“What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white...
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This Was in Texas

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 13: Places
David Lowery's Ain’t Them Bodies Saints manages to suggest a vernacular, a presence, and a mythos; a story about bodies and survival and need.
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If You Ever Get Up This Way

Elizabeth Cantwell·
Issue 13: Places
You cannot love Twin Peaks unless you love Agent Cooper—the two depend on each other in some serious and holy way; the liminal space of the town is the liminal space of his own reality.
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Only the Lonely

Erica Cantoni·
Issue 13: Places
I’ve been thinking lately that travel and love are two of the most connecting forces we can know. Both can...
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Brass City

Brian Cremins·
Issue 13: Places
“Do you remember Stanley & Iris?” I asked my sister. Director Martin Ritt shot portions of the 1990 film—written by Harriet...
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Being Alone: There’s a Certain Dignity to It

Michelle Said·
Issue 13: Places
Janet Livermore works in a coffee shop in Seattle. Not a “diner-coffee shop” like you’d see in a Quentin Tarantino...
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Nebraska, Northern Ontario and the American Road

Lawrence Garcia·
Issue 13: Places
The winter of 2014 was the longest winter of my life. Beginning in January, I moved from Vancouver to the...
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Old Dogs

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 13: Places
James Bond sits, tied to a chair. The film’s villain, Raoul Silva, approaches him slowly. “Just look at you,” he...
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Cryin’ Won’t Help You, Prayin’ Won’t Do You No Good

Bob Schofield·
Issue 13: Places
Sometimes we’d have a teacher tell us the city wouldn’t be standing in a hundred years. Sometimes it was less....
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