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    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
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    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
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    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
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    • 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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Sunlight shines into the deserted floor of a dilapidated building. The dirty concrete floor is crumbling and the ceiling is missing a few tiles. It is clear this decaying building has been long abandoned.
A one-story brown brick and white plaster house with a slanted roof; a car is parked on a cracked driveway surrounded by overgrown plants.
One a soul undone. A mural of people pulling things along like their children, groceries, and lunches.
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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
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Written by Jadae Sweezer
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

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Mad For It

Stacked industrial shipping crates aside a train passing on the train tracks, with the city line in the background.

Midway in Four Directions

Graphic wallpaper in the backdrop of a cows face. A man reading and a woman talking on the phone sitting up against the wall, people with suitcases pass by.

Keystone

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TAKE FOUNTAIN: Finding Home Amongst LA’s Historic Buildings

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City Scenes

Farmers market or flea market, people in the background in line. Cluttered litter laying on the sidewalk stoops, at the forefront with two woman resting sitting down.

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