Category: March-April 2021

The Space Between Us by Tiffany Mathewson

I’m reading an article about Seattle’s plan to be the first U.S. city to implement a safe injection site.

It always comes down to who is doing the naming. And if it’s a bunch of boys in 8th grade, you might want to step back, cover your ears.

Surprised to see a woman in her early thirties in pigtails and pajamas. They hand me a warm Styrofoam clamshell.

My strange weakness baffled my doctor. I was an otherwise healthy, fit, 38-year-old… my final semester in graduate school… maybe I was just tired?

I’ve been here for three days and I can already see why D.H. Lawrence fell in love with the area…

I used to keep letters from my girlfriends in a shoebox beneath my bed. “Ex-girlfriends,” my roommate reminded me

I know my father died on his bathroom floor. I know this because his landlady said that’s where she found him.

…our house served as a crash-pad for a growing number of visitors, especially as we approached the Vietnam Out Now Rally…

…you descend through the circles of hell with Dinty—instead of Virgil—as your expert guide, learning about religious hypocrisy as you go.

Philosophers, writers, and musicians have romanticized walking throughout the ages…

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