Archives for December, 2020
Scenes From A Pandemic – Alisa
Image courtesy of Alex Emerson DRAMATIS PERSONAE Alisa Jessica J’s Boyfriend Michelle Tara Patrick Nick Expert J’s Lawyer A’s Lawyer Dad Susana Upperclassman-college student, the narrator. Upperclassman-college...
East Meadow
When they re-emerged from the building, the stretcher between them had grown a human-shaped hump. I leaned in, breath bursting on the windowpane, peering at that strange and terrible...
CPS Teacher on Distance Teaching – Alisa
The image is taken from WBEZ. Courtesy of Rovonna Baldwin. https://www.wbez.org/stories/cps-wants-a-mix-of-in-person-and-remote-learning-this-fall/dac763d8-30d6-43cb-bf14-732bd1b803fc H is a first-year Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher who teaches fifth-grade and sixth-grade Math and Science. After...
Introduction to the Writing in Crisis Magazine
by Rachel Cohen, Professor of Practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago December 18, 2020 We welcome you to the Writing in Crisis magazine. Writing...
How to Become a Werewolf (Revised for Safety During a Pandemic) -A cure for what ails you.
Assuredly this is a most terrible disease, and yet not necessarily fatal, not even if it lasts for months. Indeed I have read that after several years it was...
If the Air Stops Rising: on stretching and pausing time
A friend once told me she listens to music in the shower, to keep track of time. Estimating each song to be three and a half minutes, after a...
Interview Fragment: Pandemic Work Time
At the tail end of this past summer, I called Café 53, a sandwich and coffee shop on Hyde Park’s 53rd street, in hope of resuscitating a previously abandoned...
Crisis
Crisis My skin feels like the sound of an engine cooling once parked, a clicking both metallic and electrical deep in my skin, and I desperately try to...
A Reason
A Reason I like to watch old episodes of The West Wing and cry. Not because of the politics—they’re almost quaint in 2020, real old-timey stuff, my past...
The Portrait of a Mother
In early September of this year, a startling image of the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California entered the Twittersphere. Primarily monochromatic, the background does most of the talking:...