"Walk around (or through) the landscaped sections of this fancy complex out to Broadway—but not the Broadway most people associate with that name; This is North Broadway." Ivars Balkits "Fort Tryon Trail" in the Slag Glass City @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/FortTryonTrail #CNF

"Halfway, dart up through the woods to the big cave and hide there from the Spartans, a neighborhood gang that likely has no interest in you." Today in Slag Glass City "Fort Tryon Trail" by Ivars Balkits @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/FortTryonTrail #literarymag #CNF #forttryontrail

"I peer into the dusty windows and smell woodsy incense burning on the mantle, Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts spinning on the stereo. Where did that young man go?" Sebastian Matthews "Ghost Tourist" in the Slag Glass City tiny.cc/GhostTourist @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #litmag

"There’s the old church graveyard that my buddy and I used to slip into, passing a joint back and forth, and the Athenaeum in the square, where the old poet shelved books and wrote his penny poems." This week in Slag Glass City -"Ghost Tourist" by Sebastian Matthews tiny.cc/GhostTourist #litmag

"This drizzly morning, though something has subtly shifted—more tourist now than ghost—that becomes evident as I walk." Today in Slag Glass City-"Ghost Tourist" by Sebastian Matthews #CNF #litmag #portsmouth tiny.cc/GhostTourist @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

SPECIAL CALL: The See Something/Say Something City seeks essays and art about urban oddities, street observations, homage to the everyday, evidence of surveillance, records of protests, public memorials and celebrations, encounters that repeat and/or surprise. tiny.cc/submitseesay... #CNF

SPECIAL CALL: The See Something/Say Something City seeks essays and art about urban oddities, street observations, homage to the everyday, evidence of surveillance, records of protests, public memorials and celebrations, encounters that repeat and/or surprise. tiny.cc/submitseesay... #CNF

"Top drop compels me because it’s a feeling that follows mutual risk-taking. The bottom exposes themselves by ceding control, and the top exposes themselves" Jenny Johnson "Top Drop" in the Slag Glass City tiny.cc/TopDrop @infullvelvet.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

"The first time I experienced top drop I didn’t understand what was happening. It hit me the morning after an especially lush impact scene" This week in the Slag Glass City–"Top Drop" by Jenny Johnson tiny.cc/TopDrop @infullvelvet.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #archives #CNF #litmag

"Devotion is the word she and I keep circling back to as we study the punishing copy. Asking for it can feel vulnerable. Giving it can feel equally disarming." Today in Slag Glass City– "Top Drop" by Jenny Johnson tiny.cc/TopDrop @infullvelvet.bsky.social #archives #creativenonfiction #litmag

"How do you handle a package marked fragile when the weak jingle of shattered glass is leaking through the seams with every breath? Nobody seems to know what to do with their hands." Travis Cohen Acosta "Mourning Rituals" in the Slag Glass City tiny.cc/mourningritu... @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

"Sand and ash aren’t so different. Hollow seashells and vacant bodies become something less than what they once were." This week in the Slag Glass City–"Mourning Rituals" by Travis Cohen Acosta @barriejeanborich.bsky.social l #CNF #litmag #slagglasscity tiny.cc/mourningritu...

"Death is life’s most effective teacher." Today in the Slag Glass City–"Mourning Rituals" by Travis Cohen Acosta tiny.cc/mourningritu... @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #litmag

“It is not only histories of genocide, enslavement, or other crimes against human rights that are buried from public view. The histories of resistance are forgotten too.” Renee Simms "WHEN BONES TALK" in the SLAG GLASS CITY. #CNF #archives #slagglasscity tiny.cc/WhenBonesTalk

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, we reveal what remains in Renee Simms’ “When Bones Talk.” #CNF #archives #slagglasscity tiny.cc/WhenBonesTalk @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Renee Sims uncovers what the dirt refuses to forget. @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #archives #slagglasscity tiny.cc/WhenBonesTalk

"I too have emptiness and longing. The hole exists, and I keep filling it with the past." Jeffrey Wolf "Anniversary" in the SLAG GLASS CITY. tiny.cc/AnniversaryJ... @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #slagglasscity #Chicago

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, return to streets of immigrant ghosts and lost legacies, in "Anniversary" by Jeffrey Wolf. @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #CNF #slagglasscity #Chicago tiny.cc/AnniversaryJ...

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Jeffrey Wolf pays homage to the family who began a Chicago story he’s still writing. #CNF #slagglasscity #chicago @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/AnniversaryJ...

“Sirens narrate wordlessly the unwelcome truths of our lives: the presence of danger and limits of home as refuge.”—Joanne Jacobson “Sirened Cities” in the SLAG GLASS CITY. #CNF #slagglasscity @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/SirenedCities

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Joanne Jacobson sirens her own warning, mourning, and grace. #CNF #slagglasscity #nonfiction tiny.cc/SirenedCities @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, sirens echo through Joanne Jacobson’s memory—turning danger into song. #CNF #slagglasscity @barriejeanborich.bsky.social tiny.cc/SirenedCities

“One day in New York, I sought a reprieve from the city’s perpetual trembling restlessness.” -David Rompf “Here Lies A City” in the SLAG GLASS CITY #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @davidrompf.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social x9373.2.vu/HereLiesACity

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY David Rompf asks the headstones: who lived, who died, who told your story? #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @davidrompf.bsky.social @barriejeanborich.bsky.social x9373.2.vu/HereLiesACity

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY David Rompf sleuths through New York’s Trinity Churchyard. LINK IN BIO! #CNF #NewYork #slagglasscity @barriejeanborich.bsky.social @davidrompf.bsky.social x973.2.vu/HereLiesACity

SLAG GLASS CITY will open up submissions starting on October 1st and ending on May 1st. #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #cities @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

SLAG GLASS CITY will open up submissions starting on October 1st and ending on May 1st. #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #cities @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

SLAG GLASS CITY will open up submissions starting on October 1st and ending on May 1st. #creativenonfiction #slagglasscity #cities @barriejeanborich

"I take out my camera, setting it to manual focus, and see what sort of abstractions I can create each time the bus stops. It’s a world of angles and figures, umbrellas and raincoats." - Jeremiah Gilbert "Rainy Melbourne" in the SLAG GLASS CITY tiny.cc/rainymelbourne #literarymagazine #CNF

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY the city walkers are getting wet in Jeremiah Gilbert's "Rainy Melbourne". tiny.cc/rainymelbourne #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction #melbourne

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Jeremiah Gilbert gets caught in the Melbourne rain. tiny.cc/rainymelbourne #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine #melbourne

"I'll play Watson to Suzanne’s Holmes. The story is as much about her search as it is about what she’s found" - Selene dePackh "Time Is A Distance That Changes The Shape of Things" in the SLAG GLASS CITY @selene-depackh.bsky.social tiny.cc/timeisadista... #literarymagazine #CNF #archivalcity

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—Selene dePackh navigates the archives of the unseen in Pittsburgh. tiny.cc/timeisadista... @selene-depackh.bsky.social #archivalcity #literarymag #creativenonfiction

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Selene dePackh peruses old Pittsburgh to piece together her spouse's family tree. tiny.cc/timeisadista... #archivalcity #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine

"My telephone can receive calls; it just can’t make them, out into the world, and if someone were to call, my voice would crack from lack of use. Save me! Would I croak?" Melissa Haley "The Residence Hotel for Introverts, 1989" in the SLAG GLASS CITY #literarymagazine #CNF tiny.cc/hotelforintr...

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY Melissa Haley squints through the peephole. #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction #thearchivalcity tiny.cc/hotelforintr...

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Melissa Haley is surprised by a knock at her door. #literarymagazine #creativenonfiction #thearchivalcity tiny.cc/hotelforintr...

"The city is neither a monument to the past nor a vision of the future—it is a quiet negotiation between what remains and what is yet to come." - Yusif Zadeh "Ordinary City" in the SLAG GLASS CITY #literarymag #CNF #nonfiction tinyurl.com/2596eaur

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—Yusif Zadeh sees the minuscule and often neglected in "Ordinary City". #CNF #nonfiction #literarymag tinyurl.com/2596eaur

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Yusif Zadeh explores the city through landscapes of the commonplace. #CNF #nonfiction #literarymag tinyurl.com/2596eaur

"There is an inevitability, a deeply natural and elemental aspect to wonder, and it comes from all kinds of places." - Sophie Grimes "Some of the Change and Unchanged" in the SLAG GLASS CITY #nonfiction #literarymag #CNF tinyurl.com/5chhvrpe

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—time, change and wonder fill ordinary city days in Sophie Grimes "Some of the Change and Unchanged." #nonfiction #literarymag #CNF tinyurl.com/5chhvrpe

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Sophie Grimes sees cities by leaving them. tinyurl.com/5chhvrpe

"Bridges are triumphs of engineering. They stretch with controlled strength above the wild river. We will cross in safety. Water will never break the bridge.” The People's Bridge by Jen Hirt & Cat Rios is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY. tinyurl.com/2ukd2ey3 #CNF @barriejeanborich.bsky.social

Jen Hirt & Cat Rios tell the story of The People's Bridge. “It was free, a rebellion in defiance of the nearby Market Street Toll Bridge.” tinyurl.com/2ukd2ey3 @barriejeanborich.bsky.social #theslagglasscity #CNF #literarymagazine

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Jen Hirt & Cat Rios share the history of the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg Pennsylvania from 1890-1996. tinyurl.com/2ukd2ey3 #theslagglasscity #CNF #photography #THECITY

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Randall Honold photographs “the present layered on the past projected into possible futures" in De/Layers. tiny.cc/n76b001 | Visit his website: dylaraddict.com #CNF #nonfiction #literarymag @dylaraddict & @barriejeanborich

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Randall Honold photographs “the present layered on the past projected into possible futures" in De/Layers. tiny.cc/n76b001 Randall in Instagram as @dylaraddict and has a website/blog at dylaraddict.com #CNF #literarymagazine #nonfiction

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, photographer Randall Honold captures a palimpsest of street art and signs in Mexico City, Berlin, London, and Okinawa. tiny.cc/n76b001 | Visit his website: dylaraddict.com #photography #theslagglasscity #CNF #nonfiction #literarymag @dylaraddict & @barriejeanborich

“Rumors had been circulating around town for years that there was an older city buried under those cobblestone streets, but Seattleites knew so little about the city’s past that most assumed this was just urban legend.“ -Debra Dean’s “The Underground City” in the SLAG GLASS CITY tinyurl.com/4dcde4pr