Issue 11

Content and trigger warnings for this issue include racism, sexism, suicide, illness, and police brutality.

Sometimes, what we intend to happen simply does not, or does not yet, perhaps not until well after we are gone. Explore the liminal life between hope and happening, intent and action, and the past and present and possible in this issue of Reservoir Road.

In order by written work with featured photography accompaniments:

  1. “Pretend You’re Not an Occupying Force” by Sage Ravenwood, accompanied by “That Oregon Life Was Never Mine” by Marina Outwater

  2. “My Boy, Leaving” by Dawn Miller, accompanied by “That Colorado Life Is Long Gone” by Marina Outwater

  3. “Mother Shipton” by Bex Hainsworth, accompanied by “Lower Madison Moment” by Michael Carter

  4. “Start with a Houseplant” by Nina A. Simon, accompanied by “Door” by Margot Stillings

  5. “How to Make Shrewsbury Cakes” by Marisca Pichette, accompanied by “Illuminate” by Em Harriett (cover image)

  6. “A Found Item” by Matthew Schmitt, accompanied by “The Lost Fable” by Frances Fish

  7. “Late Sunday” by Alastair Morrison

  8. “Annual Leave” by Isabella Garces, accompanied by “Periphery” by KJ Hannah Greenberg

  9. “We Gravitate Toward the Inevitable” by Abbie Doll, accompanied by “Abandoned Playthings” by Tracy Whiteside

  10. “The Algiers Motel Incident, 1967 & Everything Else Thereafter ’Til Now” by Ken Meisel, accompanied by “Four Windows Thurber” by John Lightle

  11. “Jade” by Joseph Soares, accompanied by “The Fields in Late Winter” by Jacelyn Yap