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Volume V, Issue 2

 
 

The Business We've Chosen

Tatiana Gutheil

Meat tags, mote dogs, belly shots. Staying alive. Semper Fi.

Kingdom Come

Elizabeth Buchanan

The Kingdom is coming. It's coming very soon. What are you doing this Sunday?

 

 

 
   
 

Volume V, Issue 1

 
 

Just Another Friday Night
in Fall River

Joe Lindsay

Heroes, villains, and their fans.

Spatial Portrait: Havana

Jacob Elmets

The space of life in Havana.

A Perfect Union

Sophia Burris

Union Organizing at Hampshire -- a college that once thought unions were just for other people.

 

 
   
 

Dazed and Confused

Suzanne Carlson

Jane Can't Spell. Johnny Can't Read. Why is that?

Those Old Italian Nuns

Ariel Edes

Holy Sisters at Home in the World.

The Frame of the Earth

Jacob Lefton

Flames, Hammers, Molten Metal. What's not to like?

Hawks Hunt Squirrels

Nicholas Francomano

Two Guys,Two Raptors. Watch what happens.

 
   
 

Volume IV, Issue 2

 
 

Iraq: The Misfortunes of War – In Baghdad’s Children’s Hospitals

Adam Shemper

Iraq: The Misfortunes of War – The Fatherless Sons of Baghdad

Adam Shemper

Sane Enough
to be Crazy

David Peters

In June, I traveled to Bawum, a village in Cameroon’s Northwest Province. I went there to interview Father Berndind, a priest who had set out to eradicate the practice of witchcraft from his parish....

   
     
 

Volume IV, Issue 1

 
 

Hypnogogic Verses

Elizabeth Atterbury

Living in Limbo

Malia Politzer

He tells me his story ...
He ran out of water the third day.
For the next four days he wandered through the desert, without water.
On day five he was attacked by a group of coyotes...

Perspective on the
Border: The Fence

Rebecca Kandel

   
     
 

Volume III, Issue 3

 
 

Post 754
Jacob Herson


P
ost 754 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is in Amherst.  It's a long, white building next to the train tracks on Main Street, downhill from the Emily Dickinson House ...

Club Castaway
Caitlin Waugh


F
ive bucks and your ID,” Nick told us.

A tall man was leaving. He patted Nick on the shoulder on his way out ...

Ludlow County Jail:
2-4 pm Visiting Hours
Caitlin Waugh

On Wednesday, I called the bus line to ask what it would take to get from Amherst to the Ludlow County jail

   
     
 

Volume III, Issue 2

 
 

No Pain No Gain
Elizabeth Solomon

It is 5:00 pm. A woman in her forties comes out of the Club, dressed in a yellow parka. She presses a button on her key chain and a Saab at the far end of the lot lights up and calls her name, ‘bleep-bleep’. I hit the gas and follow her ...

What I Learned in Gym
Rebecca Hall

Ohen I was sixteen, I fell.  I was doing a back tuck on beam and landed with only one foot, on.  The other, missed, My entire body collapsed onto the foot that was dead-on the beam ...  

Race? What Race?
Malia Politzer and Antonius Wiriadjaja

I he Lebrón Wiggins Pran Cultural Center is a small white building, at the perimeter of the Hampshire College campus.  A white student could easily live on the Campus for four years, never notice the Center, never set foot in it …

   
     
 

Volume III, Issue 1

 
 

Anchor House Gallery
Max Thelander

It was a raw March morning, snowflakes falling intermittently, when I met
Kevin Bouricius

Henion Bakery
Katie Bryson

It's 4:30 in the morning. Dave Henion, the baker, is washing coffee pots; a red bandana hangs in neat folds from the back pocket of his jeans.

 

The World in My Latte
Skye Lis Tyler

Iremember the day my Starbuck's discount stopped working.

I ordered a Caramel macchiato and a tall almond drip.

Architecture, Memories,
Havana Interiors

Julia Wadsworth

 

 
   
 

Volume II, Issue 1

 
 

Bison's Story
Jessie Friedman

The four city blocks at the center of downtown Northampton have more tarot card readers, massage therapists,
and ....

Just to Get Away...
Lisa Bloch

An inside look at Western Mass hardcore 1999-2003

Tuesday Night Mixed
Tyrone Takami

The attendant was crouched down, busy, sticking pairs of bowling shoes back in their cubbyholes.

Mother, Daughter, Sister
Gwyneth Merner

I  sat at a small table, looking out through the windows... reading and rereading a single page in my book...

 
   
 

Volume I, Issue 2

 
 

Wars, Foreign and Domestic
John Koster

I parked my little Honda in one of the thousands of open spaces...

Tobacco Farm
Claire Bohman
Christopher McNeil

Sikhs
Nicole Caldwell

One summer, when I was
sixteen, I met
a boy named Suayle.

 

 
 
 
 

Barber Shop
Elizabeth Solomon

The Grove Street Inn
James Lowe

Sylvia burst
through the
kitchen door.

Street Portraits
Amy Rathburn

   
     
 

Volume I, Issue 1

 

Homeless in Holyoke
Kip McNeil

Strangers Among Us
Fawn Koopman

Praise Jesus! Praise our Lord!” cried the middle-aged man.

Mountain Park
Julia Wadsworth, Lisa Bloch, & Jillian Eirweiss

Adult Video
Rae Donovan

The first customer I see is a beautiful woman with long brown hair, tied loose in a low ponytail.