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At Columbia Journal, we believe the stories and voices of our service members should be celebrated within creative communities and circulated among the people for whom they served. In honor […]
I eked out a catch-as-catch-can living by substitute teaching in the D.C. Public Schools. My job was to maintain continuity during occasional absences or while the school system sought permanent […]
The crowd is small but feverish inside the Iguana, just north of Times Square. From the bandstand, a fiddle sings out for four bars. A trumpet follows with a solo. […]
After I was discharged from the Marines, I needed a VA hospital not too far away from home that had the facilities to take care of my back injury. There […]
“I think the guy outside is a Giants fan,” I told my boyfriend over the phone late one August morning, peering out my window in Morningside Heights. I had yet […]
I message my roommate from undergrad, Chris, who was then known for dipping because it wasn’t something a lot of people did where I went to school. He’s since quit, […]
Our annual writing contest is open until December 1st. The winner will have their work published in the print issue 56 of Columbia Journal and receive a $500 prize. Our […]
night driver you’ve got your night posture on your profile pieced together with cellular backdrop & booth bearing cotton your hands toy at the napkin holder and beyond your elbow […]
— 23:45:03 — A QUARTER TO MIDNIGHT Deep in Kentucky, behind twelve percent of the world’s chain links, past snipers’ sights and paperwork bundled into granite-lined, torch-resistant, blear impenetrability, a […]
The Wine of The Soul I woke up in a dream three million years ago I am a giant living in a prehistoric Palace The black of today is the […]
A CRUEL ANGEL’S THESIS “…either I’m the one on the wrong planet or I’ve got the wrong world projected onto my screen, pummeled into me.” This macro series is a […]
(editor’s note: Beau/Brady are pseudonymous character names) Barflies Vol. 2 Vanguard Wine Bar, New York, New York March 2017 7 o’clock P.M. [ezcol_1half] I was on the floor of River’s […]
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