"How do you handle a package marked fragile when the weak jingle of shattered glass is leaking through the seams with every breath? Nobody seems to know what to do with their hands." Travis Cohen Acosta "Mourning Rituals" in the Slag Glass City tiny.cc/mourningritu... @barriejeanborich.bsky.social
"Sand and ash aren’t so different. Hollow seashells and vacant bodies become something less than what they once were." This week in the Slag Glass City–"Mourning Rituals" by Travis Cohen Acosta @barriejeanborich.bsky.social l #CNF #litmag #slagglasscity tiny.cc/mourningritu...
"Death is life’s most effective teacher." Today in the Slag Glass City–"Mourning Rituals" by Travis Cohen Acosta tiny.cc/mourningritu... @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #litmag
“It is not only histories of genocide, enslavement, or other crimes against human rights that are buried from public view. The histories of resistance are forgotten too.” Renee Simms "WHEN BONES TALK" in the SLAG GLASS CITY. #CNF #archives #slagglasscity tiny.cc/WhenBonesTalk
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, we reveal what remains in Renee Simms’ “When Bones Talk.” #CNF #archives #slagglasscity tiny.cc/WhenBonesTalk @barriejeanborich.bsky.social
Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Renee Sims uncovers what the dirt refuses to forget. @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #archives #slagglasscity tiny.cc/WhenBonesTalk
"I too have emptiness and longing. The hole exists, and I keep filling it with the past." Jeffrey Wolf "Anniversary" in the SLAG GLASS CITY. tiny.cc/AnniversaryJ... @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #slagglasscity #Chicago
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, return to streets of immigrant ghosts and lost legacies, in "Anniversary" by Jeffrey Wolf. @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #slagglasscity #Chicago tiny.cc/AnniversaryJ...
Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Jeffrey Wolf pays homage to the family who began a Chicago story he’s still writing. #CNF #slagglasscity #chicago @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/AnniversaryJ...
“Sirens narrate wordlessly the unwelcome truths of our lives: the presence of danger and limits of home as refuge.”—Joanne Jacobson “Sirened Cities” in the SLAG GLASS CITY. #CNF #slagglasscity @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/SirenedCities
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Joanne Jacobson sirens her own warning, mourning, and grace. #CNF #slagglasscity #nonfiction tiny.cc/SirenedCities @barriejeanborich.bsky.social
Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, sirens echo through Joanne Jacobson’s memory—turning danger into song. #CNF #slagglasscity @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/SirenedCities
“One day in New York, I sought a reprieve from the city’s perpetual trembling restlessness.” -David Rompf “Here Lies A City” in the SLAG GLASS CITY #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @davidrompf.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social x9373.2.vu/HereLiesACity
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY David Rompf asks the headstones: who lived, who died, who told your story? #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @davidrompf.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social
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Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY David Rompf sleuths through New York’s Trinity Churchyard. LINK IN BIO! #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @barriejeanborich.bsky.social @davidrompf.bsky.social x973.2.vu/HereLiesACity
SLAG GLASS CITY will open up submissions starting on October 1st and ending on May 1st. #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #cities
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SLAG GLASS CITY will open up submissions starting on October 1st and ending on May 1st. #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #cities
@barriejeanborich.bsky.social
SLAG GLASS CITY will open up submissions starting on October 1st and ending on May 1st. #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #cities
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"I take out my camera, setting it to manual focus, and see what sort of abstractions I can create each time the bus stops. It’s a world of angles and figures, umbrellas and raincoats." - Jeremiah Gilbert "Rainy Melbourne" in the SLAG GLASS CITY tiny.cc/rainymelbourne #literarymagazine #CNF
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY the city walkers are getting wet in Jeremiah Gilbert's "Rainy Melbourne". tiny.cc/rainymelbourne #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction #melbourne
Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Jeremiah Gilbert gets caught in the Melbourne rain. tiny.cc/rainymelbourne #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine #melbourne
"I'll play Watson to Suzanne’s Holmes. The story is as much about her search as it is about what she’s found" - Selene dePackh "Time Is A Distance That Changes The Shape of Things" in the SLAG GLASS CITY @selene-depackh.bsky.social tiny.cc/timeisadista... #literarymagazine #CNF #archivalcity
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—Selene dePackh navigates the archives of the unseen in Pittsburgh. tiny.cc/timeisadista... @selene-depackh.bsky.social
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Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Selene dePackh peruses old Pittsburgh to piece together her spouse's family tree. tiny.cc/timeisadista... #archivalcity #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine
"My telephone can receive calls; it just can’t make them, out into the world, and if someone were to call, my voice would crack from lack of use. Save me! Would I croak?" Melissa Haley "The Residence Hotel for Introverts, 1989" in the SLAG GLASS CITY #literarymagazine #CNF
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This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY Melissa Haley squints through the peephole. #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction #thearchivalcity
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Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Melissa Haley is surprised by a knock at her door. #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction #thearchivalcity
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"The city is neither a monument to the past nor a vision of the future—it is a quiet negotiation between what remains and what is yet to come." - Yusif Zadeh "Ordinary City" in the SLAG GLASS CITY #literarymag #CNF #nonfiction tinyurl.com/2596eaur
This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—Yusif Zadeh sees the minuscule and often neglected in "Ordinary City". #CNF #nonfiction #literarymag
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Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Yusif Zadeh explores the city through landscapes of the commonplace. #CNF #nonfiction #literarymag
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