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  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
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Three multi-colored bricks meet at a perfect corner.
A man walks behind a construction sign that reads "ROADWORK ON SIDE ROAD" on a busy city street.
Two older ladies talk on a wooden park bench. A large plant is behind them.
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
SECTION 12—Continuous City
A balcony view of the lower level of a deserted mall, with fluorescent lights illuminating the diner-style tiles and a single gumball machine..

You Are Not What You Used To Be

A child plays hopscotch by herself while a lady in a headscarf walks away in the background.

THE PARTS DON’T ADD UP

A train rushes past the Montrose CTA brown line in Chicago

Please Stand Clear of the Doors

Image of trees and a checkerboard floor pattern are stitched together.

Transitory Space

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