Category: Issue #14

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We are forever tied together, wherever we are in this world.

Photos by Joseph Priolo

By Sipora WestEdited by Ellena Lu and Alloe Mak I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. Mary Oliver’s verse reverberates in my mind as I cross my arms to protect against the biting Montreal chill. In front of me, a bed of white and red flowers covers the soil below which Bubbie and Zaide’s…

Disarmed, another year folds upon itself. Trains, planes, and automobiles—your virile body—delivered you as far as the earth reaches.

On nights when I’m especially tired or feel a cold breeze through my hair, I close my eyes and see those grey walls with my mother’s curtains and lost time through my eyelids.

He’s special, my son. My little Ethan, I want to take him somewhere special.

I experienced two major blows to my belief systems in my early life. 

I think I remember it pretty well?

By Aisha ZubairEdited by Alloe Mak You were supposed to be my salvation— But you left me alone with the things that crawl. I woke at sunrise, stayed past midnight, Fingers trembling, whispering, begging the shadows. You said you are a child. Remain childlike. So, I stayed small, ignoring the ache in my legs. I…

All had seemed but stillness to the unknown skies o’er head.

Lately, my dreams have become vivid recollections of my past failures.

An interview and photo series dedicated to our past selves and their dreams of our current reality.