Share This, Please, by Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante

  Share this, Please Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante   “And so….” He typed. “Goodbye.” “So long.” He paused, contemplating the screen. He read the whole thing. “Farewell.” He pushed the blue publish button. His profile picture appeared next to the letter. He read it again. It was good. The warmth of satisfaction took over him. He put his phone in his pocket, wondering if it would break badly with the fall. That thought entertained him. As if the phone were the most important thing on the verge of breaking. Or was it? He chased that question away as he walked towards the edge. The sky was clean and lonely. The night made his nose drip. He regretted not wearing his scarf, but, then again, regret had always been useless. He stopped when there was no more room to continue. The city lights blinked at him, indifferent to his pain. Their beauty, he thought, as all beauty tends to be, was numb. A rush of thoughts flooded his mind, but they were all passers-by, none staying or changing anything. He was ready to surrender to the darkness. But then, one thought stuck. He laughed a little and backed away. He had...
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Issue 04 Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements We would like to thank everyone who donated privately through Fractured Atlas and at our 2014 benefit with the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts for helping us fund our work on Issue Four. In particular we’d like to thank: Robert Watson, Laura Jean Moore, Morgan and Karole Larsson, and Grant Bergland for their generous contributions. We’d also like to thank Stacy Parker Le Melle for her continued support, all the readers of our blog and issues, and attendees of Apogee events. Apogee Journal is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non‐profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Apogee Journal must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax‐deductible to the extent permitted by law.   Cover Image: “Got The Power: Brooklyn”, 2014 by Bayeté Ross Smith. sculpture installed at BRIC Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2’ x 8’ x 11’

Dispatch by Tsitsi Jaji

By Tsitsi Jaji When last in dooryards jacarandas bloomed. Hanzi? The heart is in thanks to the cat. Kutenda kwakitsi kuri mumwoyo. Shredded? Only in the privacy of its own box. “Above all, strive for a room of your own,” said Mr. Jabavu. Or a library reading room. Gloved hands are rare, as are needles. However when funds are released the RNs will be paid. Vakafa? Rini? Those one hundred lonely years. Those days of loverly, loverly. I facebook you. You handcushion me. I kneejab you. You bottompoke me. In the time of loverly loverly all I wished for were gloves. Where is the dentist? Vakafa. Where is uncle engineer? Vakafa. Where is blind auntie? Vakafa. Wet noodles sound love(r)ly. These days tinodya macaroni without complaint. I sent you a Freezit on Facebook. Do you miss me? I sent you the cherry plum Sparletta. These one hundred lost years. We miss. There’s no pack of broken Lobels Biscuits on Facebook yet. Do you miss me? Next Christmas, for sure, I will come. Honestly, we are just coping up. It is better if you send cash. Dispatch: Scarce work needles.