Late Afternoon, National Gallery
Materialized by Grace Zhu on Thursday, June 20th 2024.
Grace Zhu is an artist and a writer based in Toronto, Canada. She's part of MOCA's youth council and The Reckoner. She has had pieces accepted in Purely Liminal Magazine and L'Esprit Literary Review.
Other stars in the Errants asterism:
Oh Me Oh My Oh
Amelia K.
In the girl's first snow—nearly 2 feet—her grandpa held her in a white blanket. What is this? she asks, flipping through her baby book.
Nothing Buried Won’t Reveal
A.A. Balaskovits
When Mary's swollen belly produced a stone, we wept with her and submerged it underways, so none of us would have to look at it again.
Reconciliation
Satya Dash
Night after night, I find music in the elegance of sine waves coursing their choral prelude across the display.
The Destination
Heather Kamins
I woke to an empty bed and walked outside to find him staring at the sky. “Are we on the moon?” he asked as I came up beside him.
The Last Library
Joshua Jones Lofflin
He sometimes finds the tops of poles spiking up from the earth, their cracked insulators bleached white like knuckle bones. He marks them on his map. He marks the map again when they disappear.
On Your Twenty-Sixth Birthday, You Receive Twenty-Six Instructions:
Erika Walsh
There should be fairies looking for you. Tie a red ribbon to your bed when you are ready to talk to them.