Circles

Circles by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller CIRCLES Markets softened when China shut factories down to create cleaner airfor the Olympics. FUTURE MARKETS COMMONS CIRCLES HISTORY ECOLOGY POLITICS EXCESS All my friends’ fathersand my fatherand yours. “There are alwayswinners and...

We Are Not Responsible

We Are Not Responsible by Nathan Alling Long Mrs. Greene, please stay calm. I understand you are sure you left your husband here last week. However, we have no record of it, and you don’t have your ticket. Do you want to look through your purse again for it? It’s...

Mechanics of Causality

Mechanics of Causality by Cali Kopczick You blinkand the dogs in El Salvador bark. A coin banks its hopes on a fountainand a bear breaks the filip-tip of a fern. The drummer frowns at the ridges in his cymbalsand the summer buffer in the silo spills. The wingdinger...

Notice of Proposed Land Use Action

Notice of Proposed Land Use Action by Jennifer Fliss This is a notice to tell you that you will be removed from your house in sixty days. We understand it is the multi-generational home of your family, that your childhood heights and your mother’s childhood heights...

Pacifica Interviews: Brit Bennett

Pacifica Interviews: Brit Bennett by Brit Bennett/Judy T. Oldfield Brit Bennett is a novelist and essayist. Her debut book, The Mothers, centers on a young woman from a tight-knit church community who has an abortion. Interspersed throughout, the elderly women of the...