Paleontology by Lydia Copeland Gwyn We flipped through the section on extinct forms. My sister Louise wanted to see the Saber-Toothed Tiger and the American Mastodon. She wanted to draw their tusks in the black sketch book that came in her Easter basket. Every...
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History by Catherine Pond Under a replica of a mammoth sloth, you place my hand on your stomach and I feel the baby kick. I look at a diorama of the Plains Indians, imagine a tornado sweeping across their cardboard empire,...
Afro-Seattleite Fragment #15: Jimi Hendrix Plays “The Star Spangled Banner”–Woodstock 1969 by Malcolm Friend “…this was only the very beginning of a long, violent summer.” —Aaron Dixon, My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party...
How To Disappear by Julie Morin The bus charged along a solitary stretch of cracking asphalt that cut through the buff Nebraska plain. It was almost winter, the wind whipping and dry, and still no snow. Kylie looked out the window at the barren landscape, watching the...
Triptych by Joan Wilking Benjamin Bullard IV (still known as Benji to his family and friends) has boiled his life down to a series of lists. They were his last girlfriend’s idea. “Focus. Focus. Focus.” Karleen said. “Lists saved my life.” All of her suggestions about...
