LEAVING BORON BY AREL WIEDERHOLT KASSAR 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 127 PREVIEW

She’s just a lonely teenager in a shitty town. Which, by the way, you realize we’d be kidnapping her.

WALKING AWAY BY DEAC ETHERINGTON 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 127

Someone could drive straight down to Hermosillo, Mexico from here. Keep heading south. Far as you wanted. Maybe all the way to Belize. Straight into a whole new life.

POSSESSION BY AMANDA KLARSFELD 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 127

When I was seven, I asked my babysitter to take me down to the front garden to dig for ants. I scooped a few clumps of ant-rich soil into an old jam jar and screwed the lid on. I put the jar on my window sill and waited to feel like a pet owner.