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Sep 5, 202011 min read
[Wanderlust] Out and Back: A Pandemic Road Trip to Utah
by Chih Wang It was midafternoon at our first campsite. We had secured first-come, first-serve site number sixty-seven—not too close and...
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Sep 1, 20209 min read
[True Horror] Graveyard Shifts
by Robert Hamilton, Deputy Sheriff (Ret.) Names of people have been changed to protect their identity. There are two jails in Imperial...
Jul 1, 20200 min read
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Jul 1, 20202 min read
[Photography] Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian Kelp Interview: [Kelp Journal] Can you talk about why you chose photography? What does this form provide that other...
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Jul 1, 20204 min read
[True Horror] The Lost Child
The Lost Child by Robert Hamilton, Deputy Sheriff (ret.) In 1980, I was a Sheriff’s Explorer training for my chosen career in law...
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Jun 30, 20203 min read
[Photography] @lifeofriley
[Kelp Journal] Can you talk about why you chose photography? What does this form provide that other media does not? [@lifeofriley] I’m a...
Jun 30, 202019 min read
#SIP - Fiction by Emily Carpenter
Seeing Even the Blind Can Do by Emily Carpenter BADADADA BADADADA badadada badadada… BADADADA BADADADA badadada badadada… 7:00 a.m. Eyes...
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Jun 30, 20203 min read
[Book Review] Why We Swim
by A.M. Larks “There’s something primal about a day like that at the beach—it’s all the animals heading to the watering hole. Water is a...
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Jun 30, 202012 min read
[Fictional] A Velocity of Impact by Charles G. Thompson
A VELOCITY OF IMPACT by Charles G. Thompson A trilling wail wormed its way into Kasper Zigismond’s inner ear, shoving the topsy-turvy...
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Jun 30, 202012 min read
[Interview] Kimberly J. Soenen - "Some People" (Every) Body
“SOME PEOPLE” (Every) Body Interview with Kimberly J. Soenen by A.M. Larks Kimberly J. Soenen is a passionate, intelligent, eloquent,...
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Jun 30, 202019 min read
[Fictional] Family Map by Lindsay Jamieson
FAMILY MAP By Lindsay Jamieson “Don Julio silver on the rocks, please,” Hilary asked the bartender, who was already reaching for the...
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Jun 30, 202013 min read
[True Horror] The Third Room
The Third Room by S. Faxon Chapter 1: The House September 13, 2016 At 1:17 a.m., a third unexplainable rattle split apart any chance of...
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Jun 30, 20203 min read
[Essay] Two Cups by Tom Provost
Two Cups by Tom Provost About a month before the pandemic hit the US in full, February 10 to be exact, I went to a favorite place,...
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Jun 30, 20201 min read
[Poetics] Three Poems by Krista Canterbury Adams
Finally Finally, we have come to the place we wanted— wooden tables stacked with fruit and yeasty flat bread, pitchers of spring water...
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Jun 30, 20207 min read
[Book Review] California Exposures
by A.M. Larks California Exposures, by Richard White and Jesse Amble White, is not what you expect, but that of course is by design....
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Jun 30, 20202 min read
[Editor's Note] Summer 2020
A summer of disillusionment. One of the things I love about surfing is the distance I feel while out on the ocean. I feel like I am a...
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Jun 30, 202016 min read
[Interview] with Peter Heller
Transcribed from a live recording Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a former contributing editor at Outside Magazine,...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Megan McCrea
Rosary Holding tight to the sweet smell of jasmine that hit me as I swung hard around the bend, so sudden, a pleasant apparition. Holding...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Claire Epting
Shelter From The Storm by Claire Epting You’re safe. You’re safe. I love you and you’re safe. I repeat this over and over in my head as I...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Simone Liang
I. Funny how reality can glitch in an instant, disrupting your normal the same way water-downed wifi broils your laptop hotter than the...
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