photo by Unsplash user Jesse Borovnica I hate flying. I hate the window seat, the middle one, and prefer the aisle if given a choice. I was particularly anxious for…
Variations on a Theme
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusic
Variations on a Theme: This River is Wild
by Guest Contributor June 10, 2019The snowfall doesn’t usually begin in December in Cape St. Claire. Usually, it holds itself off until January when the snow is dry powder and sticks to the tops of…
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In July, 2012, I turned the corner to the back area of Crush Bar after paying my tab. Burnt, Tongue, the reading series dedicated to Tom Spanbauer and his infamous…
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IntrospectionMusic
Variations on a Theme: In Memoriam, Amy Winehouse: Years Later, My Tears Are Still Drying on Their Own
by Guest Contributor June 3, 2019When Amy Winehouse died in 2011, I was not a particularly big fan of the singer. I knew her big hits like “Rehab,” and “Back to Black” because who didn’t?…
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IntrospectionMusic
Variations on a Theme: Sometimes You’re at a Pedro the Lion Concert, Mourning the Very Concept of Existence, and Other Times You are in a Hospital, Celebrating It
by Guest Contributor May 31, 2019There’s something special about following a band for over a decade—especially if you started listening to that band in your youth—as the discography of the band starts to layer itself…
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Artwork: Carter Vintage Guitars by Vermillion Murals / Photo: Nashville Public Art Blog Honeygo Blvd. to the Megabus stop in the vast unending lot beyond the mall, where Maryland displays a faded watercolor…
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image: “Congo Square” by Adéwálé Adénlé For Harold Battiste, Jr. In New Orleans, I saw a reflection of myself in a stranger’s marbled tombstone. I turned away, but in…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusic
Variations: One of You Leaves First
by Guest Contributor May 6, 2019V: Cadenza | Silver-Tipped Swallow: “One of You Leaves First” The story is the same always: one of you leaves first & you both know who it’s going to be.…
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IntrospectionMusic
Variations: Pomp and Circumstance/Pompa e circunstáncia
by Guest Contributor May 1, 2019Every summer, our placid village by the Bay of Biscay was invaded by what dad called the Oxford tribe: dons donning white socks under sandals; fresh-faced dissertators in linen shirts;…
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Summer was nascent, and I longed for it nonetheless. I had vowed to myself — it was going to be the best season of my life. I was freshly seventeen…
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Piano Quintet Petals aeronautics rumpling through keys, scorch score Quintet flew. * Vivify I’m going to vivify your lips Allusions, the French kiss Strum your violin strings In a Tenor…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusic
Variations: Not Your Mundane Music
by Guest Contributor April 22, 2019At an age so young I may not have known what “virgin” meant, I used to sing the “Virgin of the Sun God” right along with Yma Sumac. On my…
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nothin like being lonely at the gay club, and dancing anyway so alive so alive so alive, and I can feel all the ways I’m dying. but I dance dance…
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“Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman is the best song on the radio, it is frequently on the radio, and it is the only song on the radio about poverty. Correction:…