Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “I have a song to sing-oh. Boy, do I have a song! I was a young, inadequately prepared singer, fresh from New Zealand and it was the…

Signal & Memory By Daniel J. Dodson “Civilization does not advance through new energies or new machines alone. It advances when symbolic systems cross a threshold—when they become simple enough to spread, strong…

“Every autumn, given adequate funds and the probability of returning home, in late October, without incident—something very much not in the cards this year, given my birth country’s rapid descent into fascism—our family…

“These latter two paragraphs contain a lot of numbers, which can be daunting. I will attempt to summarize without losing significant information. Let’s take a look at this sentence: “In 2000, conventional oil…

Skip the B.S. “As I was reaching for my water bottle, Quintino asked, ‘So what brings you to CP? Or as some Americans say, ‘What’s in it for you?”’ ‘Very simple,’ I said,…

“No matter how many generations have lived upon this soil, no matter how profound their contribution to its culture, they remain at the margins, Orientalized, treated as other, or effaced altogether. The ruling…

“But the headstand was my first advanced asana and one I had not experienced since I was a child. At age six or so standing on my head or simply looking at the…

Close Encounters By David Havird “‘Can you see me?’ he asked before opening the book, holding it up for me to study; and sure enough, there he was amid the variously green-tinted kudzu…

Plant People By Jenks Farmer “Then, from our microwaving our popcorn until Daddy’s death, not much changed. But that milestone brought with it hardwired video doorbells and a security system (courtesy Blink Smart…

“At this point I demanded, as best I could, that they get me out of the country. There must be some channel for smuggling people out. ‘Unofficially, there is,’ he said. ‘But we…