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World of Wondries
Through a series of unlikely events, I find myself living in Northeast Los Angeles in December of 2020. Given the circumstances, I love it here. I’m also a car owner for the first time in fifteen years. It’s a strange feeling, but a familiar, freeing one. All those logistical questions I used to have to…
Danger, Keep Out!
by Edward Radzivilovskiy It’s the holidays and I’m alone. I’m a recently-dumped, burned-out, New York lawyer and here I am. Sitting in traffic on I-76, driving to my family’s Christmas for the first time in three years? My ex, Brenda, yeah, she didn’t go in for these things. She was technically Christian, but didn’t do…
Grandmother’s Hourglass
by Edward Radzivilovskiy [original artwork by Laura Baran] One Saturday morning, while cleaning out my family’s attic, I stumbled across some of my grandmother’s old treasures: a dusty photo album, a leather bound notebook of phone numbers, and a black hourglass with three columns and a snowy mountain of sand. The hourglass intrigued me the most—a…
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