Issue 65
A lost tourist card in 1970s Mexico forces a rule-following college student to improvise as his friend’s freedom hangs in the balance. In Athens’ oldest quarter, an anxious traveler’s frantic search for her lost iPhone turns into a comic odyssey of local kindness and unexpected rescue. As the seasons turn in a small-town French market, a writer’s fixation on its oldest vendor becomes a meditation on grief, ritual, and the stubborn persistence of life’s simplest pleasures. And backpacking through rural Mexico, two travelers catch a lift from enigmatic brothers with guns and stories—sparking a lifelong debate over just how close they came to the edge.
We proudly present the work of Morrigan Byalin, Jim Daniels, John B. Elliott, Trey C. Erwin, Mary Donaldson-Evans, Joe Greco, Jonathan Hall, Mark Jacobs, Paul Moffett, George Moore, and Li Ruan.
