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Category Archives: Personal Essay

Asclepius’s Serpent

Word Count: 1,806

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Questions from the beginning of it all, from Stillpoint Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.

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With HARD TO EXPLAIN
artwork by DRITON SELMANI

POV: you are writing a piece of speculative fiction about what you’d say in ten years about the loss you are experiencing now.

Word Count: 1,753

by Ariadna García Llorente

Theoretical fiction on the analytics of mourning.

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With THE BEST BUSINESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS
artwork by RODRIGO NAVA RAMÍREZ

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Word Count: 1,514

by Warren Bronson

A reflection on the bureaucratic opacity of the parole process in the US criminal justice system—as seen from within.

Myopic and Porous, I Reach Out to You

Word Count: 1,195

by Rieko Whitfield

On loss of life and sight, feeling, and embodiment, before the pandemic and after.

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with images from REGENESIS: AN OPERA TENTACULAR (ACT II & III)

ANTHROPOCENE CROSSING

Word Count: 2,194

by Xin Wang

Finding solace in the virtual forests of the video game ‘Animal Crossing.’

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With GALAXY
a video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER

THE DEATH OF A STAR

Word Count: 4,875

by Sokol Ferizi

From the felt experience of the Kosovo War, to an exploration of the experience of disaster through the sight of an eclipse’s corona.

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With MONUMENT FOR LOST TIME
an artwork by LARISSA SANSOUR & SØREN LIND

Unveiling the Collective in Isolation: Thinking the Apocalypse with D. H. Lawrence

Word Count: 3,989

by Matt Colquhoun

An evocation of the potentials for a collective response to apocalyptic murmurs that defies the biblical division between the saved, and the damned.

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With ESCAPE
photography by TATIANA BONDAREVA

Do Androids Dream of Abroad?

Word Count: 1,951

by Sokol Ferizi

Connectivity, creativity, and daring to dream through the abandonment of exile.

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With KINGDOM OF THE DISPOSSESSED
an artwork by SADIE WEIS

Duckbutt

Word Count: 4,207

by Jordan K. Casomar

An essay on the battle for self-love in a violent, white-dominated world.

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With ASC BEACH, OSIRIAN PROCESSES & GOD BODY
artworks by CRICE

WALKING IN THE SHADOWS

Word Count: 2,358

by Marcie Rendon

Walking the Red River to honor Murdered & Missing Indigenous women.

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With WATER
a video by TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER

On the Myths of Being White and Being Exceptional

Word Count: 3,193

by Elizabeth Tannen

On the lies that white privilege tells.

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With CONQUERORS & MONSTER
photographs by PAMELA COHN

FISHING FOR FALLEN LIGHT

Word Count: 3,122

by Lora Matz

One psychotherapist’s journey from extreme poverty & domestic abuse, through institutional abuse & clandestine drug testing in the US psychiatric system, into transcendence & a life of healing.

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With WHEN WE WENT THERE WE WALKED THE PERIMETER
artwork by KATE HOLFORD

EXILE

Word Count: 4,102

by Sokol Ferizi

A short story on the exile of the body, tongue, mind, and soul.

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With KOSTËRRC (CH)
artwork by PETRIT HALILAJ

We Don’t Make Love Here Anymore

Word Count: 2,423

by Gabriela Wiener

Children, commitment, and erotic encounters in a bed for three.

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With TERRITORIES
photographs by LEVITICUS HINDS

A Lover’s Block

Word Count: 4,348

by Sokol Ferizi

A meditation on the boundaries of monogamous love and friendship, and the triangular structure at the core of togetherness.

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With AFTER ANNIE #2 & #9
photographs by KATE HOLFORD

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