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Features, UncategorizedMarch 26, 2012

Could Have Stayed On The Highway

By Lauren Quinn

Interstate 5 stretched out before us like a flat black stain on a dingy beige carpet. Desert, industrial orchards, slaughterhouses, gas stations…

Features, UncategorizedMarch 14, 2012

The Edge of Sunrise

By Simone Gorrindo

Thea and I were still bleary-eyed when the sun began to rise behind Mount Tamalpais. The day’s first light was small and self-contained…

Features, UncategorizedFebruary 20, 2012

A Non-Travel Essay

By Amanda Giracca

It is the twist in the red tail’s neck that makes it so appealing. The way I can almost read death in the curve of the spine. Feathers still cling to the open wings…

Features, UncategorizedFebruary 13, 2012

Barang Goes To A Wedding

By Lauren Quinn

The music started before dawn. I knew this only because the holes in the corrugated tin roof revealed swaths of night.

Features, UncategorizedFebruary 8, 2012

The Other Side of the Island

By Simone Gorrindo

The sun was at its highest when we reached the isolated beach at the northern end of Bunaken Island.

Features, UncategorizedJanuary 30, 2012

The Morning Song

By Sarah Menkedick

You are riding in the back of a pickup truck. You come face to face with…a chicken. It is fluorescent purple, and stuffed with candy.

Features, UncategorizedJanuary 24, 2012

Mush!

By Eva Holland

There’s a story that circulates in Haines, Alaska, a small town hemmed in by year-round snowcaps and cold, clear, fish-rich waters on the northern edge of the Inside Passage.

Features, UncategorizedJanuary 16, 2012

Wind Horses of Mustang

By Molly Beer

Having a horse here is like having a motorbike in the city,” Bhupendra Sherchan explained the first day we rode out together on the flanks of snow-capped Nilgiri.