FRIENDLY CONFINES BY TESSA ABBOTT 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 104Hey dad, so you know how you forced me to go to this prestigious, judgmental, turn-children-into-working-robots school? Yeah, well as it turns out, I don’t really fit in there. Earth-shattering, right? READ ONLINE
SOAR BY KRISTEN HENDERSON 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 104Swing, swing. Fly, fly. That’s all she knows, so she flies. Her tie-dyed fedora floats into the rainbowed sky. There is no return. READ ONLINE
DRACULA THE ETERNAL: LISA MONDE INTERVIEWS DACRE STOKER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 104Dracula didn’t end the way Bram Stoker wrote it. Dracula got this look of peace on his face and he crumbled into dust. Was that his demise? Was that his cheeky escape, that look of peace on his face? What was it?READ ONLINE
THE TYGER KNOWS BY TRACY ROSS 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 104I don’t like it. I have nothing against meditation or mindfulness. But I have something against the quiet. It rubs me the wrong way, makes me think of Dylan Thomas, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” READ ONLINE
Moments, minutes, hours, days, months have passed and I cannot put my foot back into that river that brought us here. READ ONLINE
Our legacies vanish not as footsteps in tidal sands or buried by volcanic dust or lava flows or lost in swirls of words loosed into the air but live revealed long after us in stories of how we organize the randomness. READ ONLINE
34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 104SOAR BY KRISTEN HENDERSON, FRIENDLY CONFINES BY TESSA ABBOTT, DRACULA THE ETERNAL: LISA MONDE INTERVIEWS DACRE STOKER, THE TYGER KNOWS BY TRACY ROSS, RIVKAH BY RONALD TOBEY, HURT BY ERROL RUBENSTEIN.
