The Fear Project (Cover image by Marina Fridman) aims to transform our collective fears into a common ground through which we can connect and relate to one another. The in-progress art installation will combine drawings, community participation, sculpture, sound, and written text.
Shown here are eye drawings of recent participants of the project, who shared whispered fears that will become the audio component of the installation.
Fridman hopes to create an environment that allows us to recognize ourselves in another person, and to feel less alone in experiencing our fears. To learn more about the project and to participate, please visit www.MarinaFridman.com
Editor’s Note
The prose and poetry in this issue helped out editorial team find beauty and peace both through the pandemic and through Hurricane Ida. We hope you love them as deeply as we do.–Editor, Lindsay Sproul
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Becky Albertalli, photo credit: Decisive Moment Events -
Kia Corthron, photo credit: Sophie Kandaouroff -
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Interviews
Becky Albertalli by Cat Ashley
Kia Corthron by Gabriela Barre
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich by Hayden Williams
Fiction
“Smoke” by Nicole VanderLinden
“Southern Living” by Mike Itaya
“Mothchild” by Heather Monley
“Back” by Banzelman Guret
“Calcification” by Lucy Zhang
Poetry
“The Hostages” by Ashley Crout
“If You Leave the House Today I’ll Be Alone With My Panic” by Jacob Griffin Hall
“Behind Beauty” by Amanda Gaines
“My Brother Calls” by Maari Carter
“something that might make a suitable home” by Maegan Gonzales
“Don’t bury the dead” by Bernardo Wade
“vignettes of a lost wife” by Athena Nassar
“Why Can’t Middle Age Be Like Childhood But with Sex, Liquor and Hipper Boots“ Joanna Fuhrman
“The Forgetful Beasts” by Elizabeth Bergstrom
Nonfiction
“daily routine” by Sofía Aguilar
“Never Trust a Man With a Pinky Ring” by Dan Leach
