Term: Issue 03: Open
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Bola Nuts
The sun was hot on the back of my neck. Hunger stretched and yawned like an expectant embryo needing nourishment in my belly. I unwrapped...
The Leaving
The streets were empty, as were all the houses in that village. He walked from door to door, ringing doorbells that made no sound, climbed...
Fermentation
There had been bombings, small ones that failed for the most part. A detonation in front of the Israeli Embassy that wounded only the bomber,...
Win
Capable—if unreliable—little motorcycles, a used Honda Win can be had for around US$200. Boasting 110cc engines, endlessly replaced, welded and salvaged clutches, wheels, brakes, handlebars,...
Boulevard of Open Dreams
Plaza de la Cathedral, is an open space except during special events like Liberation Day. On Liberation Day, bands, stands and volunteer hands fill the...
Looking for Joe
It is early morning and the hot winds fragranced with the aromas of sun baked earth and prairie grass blow through the car. Ahead the...
The Meek Family Ed-venture
Tim and Kerry Meek were both full-time teachers in Nottingham, England but felt that their jobs were too life-consuming and they needed to redress their...
Walking Budapest
When I think back to my trip to Budapest, I think, first, of her street signs. Hungarian street signs look like puzzles of Latin letters...
Hameen's Wallet
The wallet’s leather folds wink beneath the shuffle of feet on Tottenham Court Road. Tired feet, anxious feet, melancholy feet, sweaty feet tromp around it,...
Keisha Goes to Harvard
When Keisha wrote down Harvard University on the list her college counsellor gave her parents, it was because she knew that he would tell her...
Life Sentence
The air was cold and still, a skin-tightening astringent kiss from mother nature welcoming me back. And nothing moved. The precedent stillness before the storm....
Moscow Hometown Blues (In the Key of B)
The expansive breakfast buffet at the fancy-pants hotel helped in dismissing the fact that we’d been evicted the day before. While Emma used the free...
The Road on the Moss
There are some journeys that stay with you. They don’t need to be epic Himalayan treks or rainforest expeditions. I was 10 or 11 when...
Annaghmakerrig
We were sitting around an ancient oak table in the dining area of a mid-18th century Irish farmhouse, all seven of us: the poet from...
Ashes to Ashes
In the fourth grade, my teacher gave each student a vial of ash from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of...
Rules of the Northern Lights
I squat on the dirt road and widen my stance to avoid the inevitable splash of pee on hard earth. When I have a solid...
Bleed and Chase
Halfway through a six-hour journey through rural Bangladesh in 2007, I realised that I might be missing a piece of myself. We were going over...
Northern Ignorance and Southern Evidence
Every time I go home to El Dorado, Arkansas, I can’t seem to fight the feeling that someone or something is trying to kill me....
What You See
I wore my Afrodelik Designs shirt by a Toronto-based designer Dezi Dee. It depicts the profile of a black woman, outlined in white on a...
Alive Among Italy's Dead
Less than 9km from Mount Vesuvius, near the entrance to Pompeii, a vendor sells bottles resembling penises. The corked bottles are red, white, blue, and...
The Queen of Doughnuts
The young homeless guy with mountain-man beard camped outside the library, his makeshift bed fenced by towers of paperbacks, asks my name. When I say,...
The Medically Important Poisonous Snakes of Malaysia
Snakes could be anywhere, which means everywhere. We kid sandwich: parent leading, kid kid, parent trailing. It’s hard to watch where all the feet go,...
Mealtimes
Everything I eat in Malaysia sticks to my back teeth as if to brand me, say I’ve finally tasted travel—the swallowing heat of the East...
The Weight of Suicide
Brambles scream to an angry sky, piles of debris are free to love, stripped stolen motorbike here, scorned forlorn unicorn there randomly scattered toys, their...
Soroche
What is the calculus of altitude and allure in this place where, until the volcano spewed ash and covered it, the old lake of the...
Issue 3: Open
We present our panoramic vision of travel literature in our Spring ‘Open’ issue. A carefully curated collection of travel poetry, fiction, and memoir, the selections...