So many coming-of-age novels are set during high school, when things are obviously turbulent (puberty, dating, getting into college, having to wake up at zero dark thirty and go sit in a building with hundreds of your fellow crazy hormonal teenagers, etc.), but I’ve...
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story is immortalized in the Little House on the Prairie books, as well as a TV series that ran from 1974-1983. Over a series of nine books, published between 1932-1943, the Little House story shows the hardship of frontier living while also...
“Do you think I could?” Therese asked simply, before she could debate whether she dared to ask. “What!” Richard smiled. “Fall in love with a girl? Of course not!” – Patricia Highsmith The first time I was published in a literary magazine was because of a sort of...
“The Kármán line is the international boundary between the Earth and space. Due to inconsistencies in the Earth’s atmosphere this border is approximate. It marks the end of national boundaries and the beginning of what is known as / free space” (The Kármán Line,...
It was a three-day drive to cross from Maryland to New Mexico. While making our way west, somewhere between my brother’s home in Texas and our final destination Albuquerque, Spotify suggested an audiobook called Diavola by Jennifer Thorne. I was hesitant. I don’t...
Dear Readers, Authors, Artists, and Community Members, We must first start by saying what an honor it is to be the newest Co-Editors-in-Chief in a long line of dedicated individuals who have all strived to help keep the literary arts community alive in Albuquerque....
