Vol. 1, Issue 37

“It is an act of violence to silence queer people and queer energy.”

Douglas Ray

Southern Lit Presents: Douglas Ray

by TNSF | Jul 25, 2018 | Nonfiction, Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 1, Issue 37

Always Queer, Never Quiet Queer folks in the South generally don’t enjoy the limelight reserved for heterosexuals. When light is cast on the LGBTQ community, it’s generally around much-deserved human rights: whether members can exist safely in their identities in...

Signing in the Waiting Room of a Women’s Diagnostic Imaging Center | Poetry

by TNSF | Jul 25, 2018 | Poems, Vol. 1, Issue 37

Waiting amid sparse pairs of the patient — reading, knitting, heads down — I glimpse fluttering hands, sparkling ripples of conversation rising above the sea of floral fabric chairs. Eyes straying from magazine, keeping head down, I watch the exchange, and I wonder....

Blue Road 3 | Photography

by TNSF | Jul 25, 2018 | Photography, Vol. 1, Issue 37

Storms that Helped me Leave, (somewhere south of Suffolk). I didn’t know I’d work in photography. I was a painter. A rebel. I didn’t fit in in the South. It took a long time for me to find my road, and now decades later, I guess I’m doing okay....