Happy New Year! We wish all our readers and contributors all the best in 2018! Thank you for your continued support of the Same. 2017 was a wonderful year in us, in that it’s the year our journal was born! We’ve had more success than we could have dreamed of, and we are excitedly looking to…
Month: January 2018
Issue 5.1 – Nonfiction
An elastic band breaks, and in quick succession another and another and then another,stinging my fingers with their snapping, and I’m amazed to find my eyes are wet, not from the pain of the stinging, but from the pain of remembrance, that these elastics, these bits of dried and desiccated rubber have lived neglected…
Issue 5.1 – Fiction
Shireen loved to look at her husband. His charming fluffy hair, that he slicked down for work but let free when going to see friends. His warm beige skin that flushed more easily than her’s, even though she was only a few shades darker. His cheeks were reddened from the crisp October air but…
Issue 5.1 – Poetry
I stand with my dad on a patch of turnip sprouts. My aunt’s dilapidated old house is directly ahead, where just two years ago they found her dead under her old truck after roughly a month (this according to the Luzerne County Coroner) and I tell him again that he should just burn it down….
Issue 5.1 – Interview
At the Same we love connecting readers with authors, and, today, we interviewed poet, Carla Cherry. We’re excited to introduce her book Honeysuckle Me with readers around the world! the Same: Tell us about yourself! Carla Cherry: I am a 46-year-old English teacher and poet from the Bronx, New York. I am the great-great granddaughter of slaves from North Carolina and Kentucky….
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