Reckless Abandon
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In this issue, Vanessa Nirode deciphers the vague alteration notes left for the often-over-looked, behind-the-scenes tailors for television shows in “Dart Waist for Another Damn Prostitute.”
Benjamin Woodard gives a breath-taking account of Barry, a man in his mid-50s, who acts impulsively while out for an evening stroll with his wife in “Reckless Abandon.”
And in “Saving Sgt. Billings,” Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour writes about what happens when you try to love someone who thinks he doesn’t deserve to be loved. “Saving Sgt. Billings” was recently named the winner of the 2021 Lascaux Prize in Poetry from The Lascaux Review, and you can read it and more of Gunter-Seymour’s work in this issue.
The images in this issue are film stills taken from the short film “I Like Tomorrow” by Jennifer Reeder and Nancy Andrews. “I Like Tomorrow” is a sci-fi musical that combines live action and animation about a lonely lady astronaut. You can watch the film online until the end of August 2021.
Film stills taken from the short film “I Like Tomorrow” by Jennifer Reeder and Nancy Andrews. From the Wexner Center for the Arts description of the film: “Conceived of by longtime friends Reeder and Andrews while the two were working as artists in residence in the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio on their individual films “Blood Below the Skin” and “The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes,” respectively, “I Like Tomorrow “is a sci-fi musical that combines live action and animation. As Reeder and Andrews recount, “After work one evening, over cocktails and possibly complaining about the then recently released film Gravity, there appeared a pen and a napkin and an idea about a lonely lady astronaut. From the start, the short film was conceived with actress Michole Briana White in mind.”
See the film for free until the end of August 2021 at wexarts.org/film-video/nancy-andrews-and-jennifer-reeder.
