Vol. 2, Issue 7

“America ought to say / thank you, Miss South, thank you for being like / Jesus and taking on the sins of the whole country.”

–Jacqueline Allen Trimble, “Everybody in America Hate the South”

Bonded by a Flag | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Feb 13, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 7

Without awareness, I exiled myself. Committed to being a foreigner, existing in near-constant visceral pain of missing Virginia’s Southside, until I can put my finger exactly on what I love and why and how. Until I can make sense of where I begin and my love for a...

Suspect | Poetry

by TNSF | Feb 13, 2019 | Poems, Vol. 2, Issue 7

A TSA agent lifts your nursling from your arms. Flagged, he says. Just a baby, you say. The white man behind you navy tie, slightly loosened who’d just been cooing at your little one— fiddles with the cuff of his starched shirt steps around you feeds his briefcase...

Brian Building a Man | Visual Art

by TNSF | Feb 13, 2019 | Visual Art, Vol. 2, Issue 7

Brian Building A Man Julia Leslie Guarch believes that everything is connected, and he aspires to explore those connections through her creative pursuits. “Brian Building A Man” is part of a series called “Creation.” In “Creation,” Julia Leslie Guarch investigates the...