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Do Not Go Outside to Cry by Kathy Karlo

Do Not Go Outside to Cry by Kathy Karlo
I see it being used all around me to describe women, often by other women: badass. I have always considered it to have a good connotation, as it im...

About The Zine Book Cover: A Jimmie Dunn Story

About The Zine Book Cover: A Jimmie Dunn Story
As I’ve said and written before, my favorite thing about publishing The Zine is the connections it helps create. I am able to connect with people t...

Brad Gobright: Pure of Heart by Lucas Roman (Part 1)

Brad Gobright: Pure of Heart by Lucas Roman (Part 1)
Brad Gobright is pure of heart. So pure, in fact, that he may never have faced a dilemma in all his life. That’s not exactly serving him well righ...

Yucca Ropes: The DIY Ancestral Puebloan Static Line by Len Necefer

Yucca Ropes: The DIY Ancestral Puebloan Static Line by Len Necefer
In the late 1300s, experts point to drought and other environmental stressors impacting the Puebloan people in the Southwest leading toward societ...

Icons in Danger and Desert Medicine by Birch Malotky

Icons in Danger and Desert Medicine by Birch Malotky
Joshua Tree National Park is a refuge. I don’t know if I’d decided this by then, sitting folded into the crook of Cyclops Rock, but I felt it. The...

Creeksgiving by Luke Mehall

Creeksgiving by Luke Mehall
No place soaks up sun like the Johnny Cat enclave at the Cat Wall, Indian Creek. The maroon cliffs are striped with perfect cleaved fissures, like...