Possible synonyms for ‘travel’ include sojourner, pilgrim, bum and strap-hanger. You can go on a long journey and learn nothing; you can go to the grocery store and meet God. Who gets to travel and what counts as travel remain open questions in the fraught genre of travel writing.  

Rebecca Klein – On Bodies That Split
Amrita Rajan – Life and Those Who Can Afford It
Nicole Baute – Loud
Joel Long – My Spiral Valentine, 2014

Editor: Laurie Hovell McMillin
Assistant Editor: Jessica Grim
Editorial: Jack McMillin
Technical: Liam McMillin

 

When I stare at my sister’s reflection in the mirror, I don’t compare our bodies. Instead, I see myself.

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When did Spain become such a popular destination for Indians? And then I remembered – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

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Sometimes I dream I’m pulling earplug after earplug out of my ear, as if all the earplugs I’ve ever used have accumulated in a cramped space in my head without me realizing it, becoming some kind of gnawing mass.

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The dogs are twin stars, furred, spinning around spinning.

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