As Nine stumbled with his words, a stifling heat rose beneath his cloak. Sweat beaded at the too-tight collar. He struggled to mirror the council-person’s rigid posture. She alone could invite him to stay at The Radiant Sun, offering them the home that would put an end to his days crossing the flood and a…
A Community Feature with Stain’d ArtsStain’d Arts is a Denver-based, multidisciplinary, and artist-run 501(c)3 nonprofit established in 2015. Since then, Stain’d has been curating paid platforms for literary, visual, and performative artists working outside of the dominant narrative. We believe art that disrupts is art doing its best work in society. This approach asks us…
in a crowded room: dress to blend in. No sudden movements, no bright lipstick, bright hair. No loud laughter. You can move among others without attracting attention. Just nod and smileon a city street. Don’t make eye contact. Wear sunglasses. Never smile, or frown. Walk on the shadowed side. Learn to blend into your environment;…
Breath & Shadow is a quarterly journal of disability culture and literature, unique in being the sole cross-disability literature and culture magazine written and edited entirely by people with disabilities. Each issue examines the human experience of living with disability through fiction, essays, interviews, drama, and other writing. Breath & Shadow believes that personhood in the land of…
Ashen face in a doorframe and a memory of flame (something unresolved)— Would you know me? Would I know you in your new form? Is this an invention, a number I didn’t call? My cowardice as doppelgänger given form A violent rainstorm leaves the earth upturned —I wanted them back but not like this. It’s always…
His friends called him Jay, because he worked up with the birds. Jay rode skyscraper skeletons, where New York was flickering itself sullenly into being. A taste of steel lived in Jay’s mouth, scars on his arms, and no room anywhere. His world was girders, lines, oil.“Frosty,” they called him. He didn’t understand what love felt…