One Can Indeed Not Account
By Bailey Romaine “…there are many difficulties to be reckoned with in the recollection of things.” – W.G. Sebald[1] The California sea […]
Features
Pulse (Five ways of looking at my grandfather’s dog tags from the Great War)
by Gloria Ballard Treasure. In a back corner of a drawer of a desk that had come from my father’s parents’ house, there […]
Witch Bottles and Satellites
By Jesse Ring Witch Bottles, stoneware vessels used in 17th century England to place protective spells and block incantations of ill will, are […]
Editorial: Issue 97
By Kris Bespalec-Davis Objects and images, preserved in archives, or immaterial and memorialized in the annals of memory: these are Relics. They are […]
Taurus crockettensis: A Tennessee Relic
By Beauvais Lyons More than 5,000 years ago, curious mammals with the body of a raccoon and a broad head and horns resembling those […]
Transmutations: I was baptized in a bathtub with glitter
By Liz Scofield “I choose to believe in magic,” I say, “Why not? It’s as real and not real as anything else. As […]
Slides and Relics
By Kerr Houston Let’s begin by imagining a scene. In a solemn, darkened chamber, an expectant crowd gazes upward. The general mood might […]
Little Happy Teeth Around the World – A Comic Travelogue
By Rylan Thompson Almost nine years ago, my wife Susan and I were married and set off on a six-month honeymoon around the world. […]