Look, said Dick. See the red car. Jane said, Oh, look! It goes fast. A flashback to gramps reading Dick and Jane, about a little toy car—so unlike the real red car I’ve been working on. A beauty, I think, as I park it on a red-brick street, down from Carmine’s red-brick cottage. It’s autumn and the street’s lined with maples and their colorful leaves—canary, caramel, crimson. A group of kids with marshmallows-on-a-stick are huddled around a small bonfire …
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Olfactory Report 10: Art/Science/Industry Roundup (Includes a Perfume Analysis!) by Catherine Haley Epstein
Art While I was unable to visit the Venice Biennale, I have scoured the internet, badgered friends who attended, and consulted various resources to unearth the one work that most directly pointed to the olfactory sense and olfactory material. Many of works included in the exhibition had tangential, suggestive and material aspects of scent. Simone Leigh’s extraordinary re-imagining of the US pavilion is called Sovereignty. Culturally potent materials like cowrie shells, plantains, raffia, and tobacco leaves have natural olfactory tones …
“An Ode to Icelandic Tap Water” & Other Poems by Sara Letourneau
An Ode to Icelandic Tap Water I was told to drink you, that you are “completely safe” and “no other tap water on Earth tastes so good,” and I cringed as if I had sipped rancid milk. Where I come from, such water perfumes the skin with trace metals during a shower, and who knows what kind of slow death it inflicts on one’s cells. Regardless, I pour my first glass of you, and you appear as water should, clear …
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The Creativity and Adaptability of The Dessert Stand Sisters by Samantha Meddaugh
Brooke Smith and her twin sister, Britney Turk, are co-owners of The Dessert Stand in Westminster, Colorado. For ten years, the duo has been creating cakes and cupcakes that feature various homemade mousses or fruit fillings, topped with a thick layer of whipped buttercream frosting in complimentary flavors, and decorated in fun designs for weddings, events, parties, and everyday celebrations . “Our biggest key to success is adaptation,” Brook told me when I interviewed them in their large open-spaced bakery …
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“The Whole Entire World Ever” * Fiction * Caitlin Hernandez
*We are delighted to present our first-ever fan fiction! Written in response to “Restoring the Effigy,” by M. Leona Godin. “The Whole Entire World Ever” is a prequel written from the point of view of Effie’s little girl Artemis on their mother-daughter trip to San Francisco. Leona admits to tucking in an embellishment or two amongst Caitlin’s beautiful words* Last year, I had the best hairstyles of anyone in first grade. Mom can do hair a bazillion different ways, …
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