inside traffic east

the happy place
Issue 25 Joyce Carol Oates Issue 25 Joyce Carol Oates

the happy place

Of the twelve students in the fiction writing workshop it is Ana who holds herself apart from the others. From you…

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transformation
Issue 25 Cassandra Gainer Issue 25 Cassandra Gainer

transformation

As a child growing up in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, Thomas Beauford would sometimes go to the rooftop of his building and look out to where the Statue of Liberty shone in the distance…

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raoul’s
Issue 25 Aidan Ryan Issue 25 Aidan Ryan

raoul’s

And the city whispers this–it tells me that I am a New Yorker, or might yet become a New Yorker–with a name, a name as soft as sewer steam, as simple as a kiss … Raoul’s…

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connective threads
Issue 25 Cassandra Gainer Issue 25 Cassandra Gainer

connective threads

Everyone has a favorite t-shirt. You know exactly where you got it, what you were doing, who you were with. What you probably don’t know is who made it. But there’s a pretty good chance that it was Jon Weiss…

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my querencia
Issue 25 Tony Martinez Issue 25 Tony Martinez

my querencia

In Spanish, we have the word querencia. In essence, it’s a magical place of safety, where one feels at home, where one finds their own soul’s strength…

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torpedoes in time
Issue 25 Aidan Ryan Issue 25 Aidan Ryan

torpedoes in time

An explosion in a shingle factory, the exile of an aristocrat, and the influence of four visionary women led to the creation of two of the leading museums of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and would bind their fates forever…

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