Clear. Nuclear. Like the Visible Woman in her plexiglass-clear skin once lied to me I wouldn’t grow to be. One button for her heart to light up red. One for the nervy, branching rivers in her head.
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In addition to the off-kilter aesthetics and the incredible roster of badass writers, I was struck by just how dedicated and lo-fi Kitty Snacks appeared to be. We know that literary journals often come from a deep place of admiration and love, and to see this piece of literary past is akin to napping under a handmade quilt, hearing an old 45 as it spins, taking a sip of localized, antiquated soda.
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Collaborating on the editorial level brought me back to what this is all about: community. We’re gathering work that we want to celebrate with readers.
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Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.
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An interview with author Ananda Lima, one of four writers participating in UC’s Fiction Festival
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And I was ready for it, the salt-laced soap stinging red at the corners of my vision, waterfall over my eyeballs, and Mel’s messages front and center, lurid but legible. I was ready to delete.
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He prefers happier stories: “The girl and the boy loved each other. They got married. The end.” But the happy stories don’t last long.
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The more I consider craft, the more I think we’re studying how to identify and harness wondrous paradoxes of creativity.
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Kailah Figueroa’s “When I Was a Boxer” is an adrenaline-filled pleasure from start to finish.
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Image courtesy of Jeremy Yap via Unsplash Assistant Editor Kate Jayroe: Imagine that you’re...
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