by Maddox Emory Arnold | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Non-fiction
I first became a boy in that dingy old dressing room, accordion curtains behind me making ripples in the mirror. Those curtains separated the boys from the girls—a barricade of thick, off-white canvas that never quite managed to keep out the smell of sweat wafting in...
by Cee Ellis-Stoneman | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Non-fiction
When I was fourteen years old, I discovered that swimming pools are a metaphor for love. The source of my discovery was Macdonald Hall: Go Jump in the Pool! by Canadian writer Gordon Korman. In a story about boarding schools and friendship and refusing to let go, the...
