Jacquelyn Bengfort, in her piece “Tilt”, presses you to reflect on the tilt. Not the tilt of your head, when you are looking up at the stars or when you’re balancing the phone between your shoulder and check. No, the tilt of the Earth. A small, slight tilt of 23.5 degrees that allows for humanity Read More
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Natasha Dennerstein, “Desirable Alien”
I, too, didn’t/don’t understand green bean casseroles, and that completely won me over. Rachel Chen on Natasha Dennerstein’s “Desirable Alien” (sPARKLE & bLINK 94) sPARKLE & bLINK 94 by Quiet Lightning
Amber Carpenter, “Bodies Are Not Meant To”
The human body is a fragile, precious entity. The human body is assigned at birth, it is not a choice. Care for it—you try—but sometimes you are stripped of such freedoms. Sometimes it is a stranger that controls your body, as if it were a dead thing—a commodity. Amber Carpenter’s piece “Bodies are not meant Read More
Sean Taylor, “Sings Us Both to Sleep”
A deaf old man who doesn’t own a clock. A smoking couple with a baby monitor. This piece was lovely—I couldn’t tell whether to be sympathetic or sorry, self-conscious or awed. Rachel Chen on Sean Taylor’s “Sings Us Both to Sleep” (sPARKLE & bLINK 31) sparkle + blink 4.0 by Quiet Lightning