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    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
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    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
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    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
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    • 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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  • 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
Rant & Remedy

What is your bread and where are your roses?

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

Mexico City

A child in a raincoat stands under a blooming lilac tree on a street corner

Babies

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

Transitory Space

The back of a young girl with a blonde bun and white sweater. She faces a small brick train stop building that says, “Flagstaff.”

What Is a City?

A shelf in a store is labeled “tampones,” holds empty tampon display cases.

The Disorientation of Scarcity

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