COVER PIECE: The Twinkle in Your Mind Kennedy Timmons Kennedy Timmons is an African American mixed-media artist born in Kingwood, Texas in 2004. Currently dividing her time between Central Texas and New Orleans, Timmons is working on her BA in Visual Arts and a minor in Business Administration from Dillard Read more
By Bretton Cadigan As a New Englander, I know three things: Boston sports are king, Dunkin’ Iced Coffee is a year-round beverage, and Spooky Season doesn’t end after Halloween. There’s no better way to while away the cold, dark three seasons of winter than to curl up with a scary Read more
By Kimberly Jackson It’s 2024, gated communities are under siege, armed guards patrol the high-walled gates keeping out the poor, foreign, sick, and starving. The wealth inequality has widened along with climate-fueled fires, water is scarce, the police are privatized and rarely come unless you are wealthy, and social fragmentation Read more
By Ember Richardson The news cycle is perpetually inundated with bad news wherever you look. Whether it’s daily CNN broadcasts, a local news station, or even your social media feeds, there always seems to be something terrible. As a reader, I turn to books to escape into other worlds, where Read more
By Ava Kevitt TW: death, mention of violence They had appeared at the edges of her vision when she was still just a baby, crawling on the floor. Buzzing around her head like flies, her childmind would simply call them ugly monsters. She didn’t know that most people weren’t able Read more