Photo:Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post-modern painting forced into this context of high-key low-brow art again greets you as you begin your shift. A gobsmacked cousin of a Keith Haring hound, its fuel ever-hovering above empty, always catches...
Photo: Vincents productions, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Six years ago in a study abroad dorm in Copenhagen I held a tub of peanut butter between my hands while Carissa peeled an apple beside me, we giggled like we were back in the fourth grade. Dipping the...
Photo: Nietanigal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The green gates of Velintonia had greeted me many summers before, lying just out of reach behind a crop of overgrown branches. I peered through the bars and noticed with relief that the “For Sale” sign was finally...
Photo: Faith Palermo In 1817, a sea serpent appears in Gloucester harbor. On August 14th, creature breaches water, skin kisses air, and is witnessed. The Linnaean Society of New England, a board designed to record and interpret landscape, collects testimony, and the...
Photo: C messier via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 4.o O lovely red mullet, Anna said to the fish as Vassilis of the scraggly eyebrows in the agora, Chaniá’s covered market, held it up for her to inspect, cleaned and ready to wrap in paper once she agreed on...
Photo: TheWhitePelican via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Anna Gavigan looked out past the gravel parking lot, across the murky green pond at the Blue Whale of Catoosa and thought about how she needed to be studying. The old concrete whale was beached on one...
