Dishes on the red sled
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, L. L. Barkat considers writing, schooling, and…
Essay
Three houses away
byMy two best friends growing up were brothers who lived three houses away from me. Tim was in my grade and Joe was two…
The joy of being flung
byWe were city kids who had a bit of grass to play on. We lived in post-war garden apartments–brick, two-story buildings attached and arranged…
The roaring twenties
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Stefanie Möser Zitö considers how to counteract the…
Hoop dreams of a younger sister
byMy first basketball court was a smooth, square patch of concrete between the one-car garage and the rest of the dusty rock and gravel…
Hard at play
byIt’s a Sunday morning in late spring. Our cat lounges in the sun by the open window, where the joyous prelude of bird chatter…
Suspicious skin
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2010, Erin O’Connor-Garcia contemplates the new life…
The rules
byWe stood on a curb in Winnemucca in the dark, December 1980. Snow-pellets swirled in headlights and stung our faces and scudded down the…
Do not enter
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2010, I reflected on what it would…
Alabama and Siberia
byA version of this piece was previously published on TCK TOWN in 2017. Some people say home is where you come from. I disagree. I…