ESSAYS & MEMOIRS
Oxford American
All my earliest memories of music are on the road. No matter where we went, my family always switched on the radio. Each morning, when my grandpa drove me to school, he’d pop the most ancient of country music cassettes into his pickup truck’s tape deck…
As a Queer person who once used games to navigate my own sexual identity, “Dragon Age” became my vessel to explore. Being able to talk to a diverse range of characters helped me to better understand my own sexuality. I wasn’t seeing a caricature, I was seeing people reflecting my own lived experiences…
Stubbed Toes, Old Stories, Glue
Square 95
My Paw, the Southern way to say grandpa, used to tell great stories. Before he passed away, he told one of his favorites like this: He was a little boy, outside running circles around his childhood home. It was high summer. Hot, humid, miserable. His Mama was tired of all his clodhopping. “Stop it there!” she yelled across the yard. Paw didn’t listen—he never did—and kept on running.
SHORT STORIES
Port City Review
Snow drifted in off the mountains — came south before another cold front. We had six inches of snow in a day. Most we’d gotten in a decade, the weatherman said. The signal cut out to a pop song, then warbled back. I think he said to expect three more inches tonight…
Port City Review
Johnny twiddled the straw sticking out of his cup. We were in the window booth at the diner. His head was turned, and his eyes glazed over, looking out the window at the oak trees across the parking lot. “What’d you want to do tonight?” he asked.
Port City Review
Walking behind you I notice the the loosely formed oil stain on your back. It looks like a half-finished Dalmatian, it runs and barks in the wind to the rhythm of your steps as you weave between growths of thickets and low-hanging brambles. We’re in the woods and it’s early autumn.
REPORTING
Savannah Magazine
Unexpectedly, the pandemic posed a prominent risk to skin health, showing up in more ways than we could count. From those early moments of constant handwashing and sanitizing to those irksome cases of mask-fueled acne…
Savannah Magazine
Life is returning to normal, which includes heading back into the office, and Dr. William Pearce, a board-certified ophthalmologist at Georgia Eye Institute, urges us to take some lessons from quarantine.