In this issue of Cutleaf, Marc Harshman details what a young boy sees during the threat of a tornado in two poems beginning with “A Red Hen and a Small Woman.”
Anna Young shares “Stalls,” a voice-driven, humorous piece that can be best summarized with this quote from the young narrator: “The school…took the doors off the girls’ bathroom stalls. They must have thought, if we could watch each other shit, we might not write mean graffiti on the pink shellac.”
And Cyndie Zikmund explores the family members we won’t leave behind, even if they are plastic, in “Feline Intuition.”
This issue features illustrations from Albert Robida’s Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique (Paris: La Librairie Illustrée, 1893). Robida is sometimes credited with imagining something like a combination of Zoom and Netflix, but in doing so he proved the point that we often imagine technological advances in a way that protects our interests.