A beautiful and thought-provoking essay on the films of Zora Neale Hurston, by Autumn Womack.
The Brown Bag of Miscellany’: Zora Neale Hurston and the Practice of Overexposure
February Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
October Issue, 2024
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Fiction: Everybody Plays the Fool
The lights flicker and I fall to the ground in the tolling darkness.
February Issue, 2024
All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
An Anchored Friendship
Listen to this neo-noir short story that features the Iowa State Police, a displaced bounty hunter, a broken farmer, and his local cop acquaintance caught in a Mexican stand-off in a gasoline-soaked corn field.
My Afro-kwea diary: #2
My Afro-kwea Journal, entry #2: The Death of Vivek Oji By Akwaeke Emezi
Fiction: The Lost Man
New fiction from Dez Walker
The Mask
New fiction from Garner Behnke.
Fiction: Pandemons
I like the warm dusty tar soft on my feet. I like staring straight up into the vast reeling sky, into the fast wheeling birds. I like when the birds land and speak to me with gentle soothing voices. I like the soft sounds they make when they all settle together. I like to watch people from my roof, to see them washing over the sidewalk in waves—coming together, breaking apart.
When the plague comes I don’t go into the city any more, because it’s all shut down. The crowds on the sidewalk below are sparse and their waves veer away from each other.
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