By buying the church, he bought the graveyard and used his children and grandchildren to become the librarians of the dead.
Story Finds
Take Me With You
An Editor's Guide
The world is dark, but we shine.
I neatly pack everything back up
To care for them another year.
Versions of myself
I look back on,
But still feel
the need
to protect.
I unwillingly surrender myself
to time
And the memories all around me.
Today I imagined time
was frozen.
How to tell the tale?
It’s 2004. It’s 2020.
It’s 2009.
This is uncharted
territory
I close my eyes and
see
I am not a lost girl.
The excavators of Take Me With You: Underground are not afraid of the dark. In this zine, they illuminate the dim rooms of memory, laying out past selves in neat rows on a rumpled bedspread. They voice secret desires and suppressed stories once-unspoken. They let what was bubbled up inside, rise to the surface and burst through the confines placed on them. Accompany us in this transformative journey forging ahead towards something new and vibrant.
A Perfume Named Nostalgia
Memories branch the past and present. Through four vignettes, this piece documents the continuities of life and the importance of revisiting and appreciating past experiences through olfaction.