photography by Kelli Connell
Contributed By: Kelli Connell
photography by Kelli Connell
Return to table of contents for Issue 10 Fall 2016.
When we decided to co-edit an issue of MAYDAY Magazine dedicated to nonfiction, we knew we wanted to see as wide a range as possible. We were particularly interested in work that pushes or blurs the boundaries…
I’m going to stop coming out in the usual I don’t want to offend you way. I’ll tell the next children’s librarian who asks me my husband’s name about the time a cop held my wife against…
I heard my hands were yellow, and in the lines I could feel deeper, like tea I never knew what any of that means if colors have smells then yellow lingered in front of my…
The blurred cypress has its own quiet math as you speed divine with the white tongue of a cloud descending to lick a strip mall. Motion is a means to forget, so that each fluorescent…
Self-Portrait with Immortality I’m bewildered by anyone eager to live fast given I strenuously object to the idea of dying young. Ask anyone. I hardly drive the speed limit, I have never once drunk a cup of coffee, and I believed my mother when she told me the half-finished cigarette fished out from the bottom […]
Return to table of contents for PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE Return to table of contents for Issue 2 Winter 2010
I am lying flat on the ground in a quiet living room in a quiet home in the kind of quiet suburb everyone’s at least driven through, if not lived in. I am breathing deeply, from my diaphragm, like the VHS instructed.