The camp was built close to water, but never close enough to protect us from it. A creek ran between the rubber farms, cutting a narrow, patient line through the plantation. Rubber trees pressed in on both sides, planted as tightly as the land would allow. The company planted rubber in every inch of visible […]
Ron Theel
RON THEEL is a mixed media artist and freelance writer living in Syracuse, New York. His writing and art have appeared in Pithead Chapel, Beyond Words, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, and others.
Downstream Was Never Innocent
Self-Portrait with Immortality
by Kurt David
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 […]
