...Jacqui Germain Copyright © 2021 Jacqui Germain 2021 Jacqui Germain For the Street That Held Us The sun is a low tremor of light as West Florissant prepares for the coming quake of bodies. The street breathes deeply, twists its sidewalks into an unwelcoming mouth and waits for feast. It begins...

... immigrant street vendors. Through the convergence of narrative and material transactions, the book prompts reader-consumers to recognize their complicity in the duress that shapes their interactions. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 migritude migration duress testimony life writing...

... in the streets of the city. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 jazz slavery memory diaspora New Orleans Works Cited Brothers Thomas . 2006 . Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans. New York : Norton . Campanella Richard . 2013 . “ Gentrification and Its Discontents .” NewGeography.com...

... of the physical world and that now that we had the skills to render memories, we should look to the real world for more texture. So I took short walks, weaving through the streets, skyscrapers around me forming a giant glass and metal maze. I let sounds wash over me: faint hums from automobiles, their silky...

... stop over and play Atari. I could have been no more than nine years old and walking up the street was an adventure. Though Sunday mornings were always quiet, the silence was broken by dogs barking at passing people and cars hitting potholes. In the middle of the block was Johnson...

... that it was missing. Money, passport, credit card, all gone. She climbed the stairs at St. Michel and tottered on the sidewalk, buffeted by people rushing to work in the gray, sooty morning. Stumbling across the street to the quai of the Seine, she leaned against a stone parapet and looked down at brown...

... wind sweeping the street as if cleansing the hands that took & took, the eyes   narrowed into the doorknob twisting the body of someone's son into shadow, the flames of memories & a silhouette of grief, the wildfire of silence touching everyone's house, the prayer   points...

...Jeddie Sophronius Copyright © 2022 Jeddie Sophronius 2022 [email protected] Jeddie Sophronius City of Smoke September 26, 2019: Jakarta police fire tear gas amid unrest over conservative reforms. Thick smoke conceals the red sky. Tires burn in the streets. every act of abortion...

..., the only room upstairs, small and cave-like. My name's Brad; my wife's Wendy. We live at 212, second on the right, blue. The roof collages started with the Simmons's house across the street. It was a perfect January day in the fifties, why Wendy and I decided to live in the South...

... was after, still, he had chatted briskly at any of them, at all of them, in order to keep watchful and perceptive. And this was all well after he had simply driven in silence, unsure as to why he was driving at all, since it wasn’t even his car. OF RELIGION They were parked on Allen Street...

... from Vermont College and is currently marketing her first novel, “We Were Here.” Her short fiction has appeared in the Dickinson Review, Main Street Rag, Bluestem Magazine, Roadside Fiction, and Little Patuxent Review. She currently teaches English at Chesapeake College and co-owns...

.... Everyone around us walked with a sense of urgency, but we strolled through the streets of downtown Manhattan like tourists. Claire told me about her job proofreading galleys of tax handbooks, legal texts, and, most recently, a guidebook to trees in New York City. “I can identify the species...

... different, powered by sec- ular, childless urbanites determined to put a locavore meal on every plate and chain a fixed-gear bike to every street sign. Campanella’s essay began a season of writing on the related —​and too often con- flated —​questions of displacement, labor migration, and neighbor...

.... It seemed like this because when she walked her dog at night through the neighborhood streets, not a single neighbor appeared. She imagined them stuck, stuffed in, hanging from the walls of their houses like giant cicadas, their electronic household devices chirruping and whirring...

... were empty. As he pulled onto his street, with its wide lots minnesota review 76 (2011) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1221930  © 2011 Patrick Lane 17 18 the minnesota review carved out of marshland, the houses set far back, he couldn’t shake...

... to buy Cottons. Cars are everywhere. America has more cars than people. In Germany ghost cars drive fast through city streets at three o clock in the morning. Police chase them but they disappear into air. e rst car was the Benz Motorwagen. It traveled at 9 mph. A gira e can run faster than...

... who d used pcp Daniel Prude walked in penumbra unarmed naked bleeding on a new york street multiple male police officers cuffed Prude s hands behind his back / Prude on ground compliant crying praying spitting / hooded him shoved Prude s head and chest into pavement held him down two minutes fifteen...

... follow through. Terry was in Crown Heights, and though Jean had been there once for a party, this was much deeper in, off Franklin Avenue. She passed fried chicken huts and jerk chicken houses, discount stores with wiffle equipment exploding on the street. Guys stared...

... like little claws. Carla's baby. Her first? her second or third? How long has she been married? and to whom? Lucky man. But I'm not bitter. Not now. Only, disoriented. Back home in Chile. My country again after fifteen—no, sixteen years. Unsure which streets connect with which. Which lives...

... he grew up in in the Bronx, on Google Street View. How he touched my shoulder, leaning over me, saying, Can you go down the street with it? First, we went to the corner store where he bought chocolate for a nickel and then to his grade school, P.S. 41 now razed and under construction and finally...