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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
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • 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 Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
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Tagged: creative nonfiction

when i was a boy, i wasn’t

Back in Elementary

Time-Lapse

Airplane or Aerial view of the city of Los Angeles during the day. Trees in the forefront, city line in the horizon.

To Live or Die in the City of Angels

Up close image of what can be seen in the holes of a metal fence, overexposed image of lights from cars pass on the highway.

On Liminality

Two Black men sitting in the front seat of a red vintage car at a car show. Car doors and trunk open and on display.

Black Oakland/Still Here

London parade, with a parade boat and figure standing on it and European and UK flags attached, people holding up signs.

Mad For It

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