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If you are looking for good ramen in Osaka, I recommend going to Kirakira Place. It’s a little hard to get to, but I can help you out. Past the underbrush, past the sea-smoke where Osaka-maids flip their elongated scales, pillow sacks, out (fluffing the dirt, watching the brown flecks blow), there are large pampas … Continue reading Noodle Stall for Tokuriki Yakai – Fiction By Yuna Kang

Jaywalking with Othello You dumb bastard. What would your momma say?Moors can’t jaywalk in KKK county.Why’d you do it, champ?       Love? You’re shitting me.Don’t pull that green-eyed monster shit with me—I know your game. You’re never satisfied.Always soliloquizing starved womenwith Nubian smiles, sandalwood wordsoozing swagger trails, smooth as silk rain.But you fucked … Continue reading Three Poems by Martheaus Perkins

I was held by those watchful eyes. Tall prairie grass, scratchy streaks, heavy brush lines. Mohawk people moving, one of them peering through a sea of yellow gray. I turned from the painting, wiped at the edges of my mouth, my .45 heavy in my hand. On a black Chippendale chair sat Cheryl Strangeways, lower … Continue reading Artifacts – Fiction by Grant Tracey

The Frog and Turtle Restaurant, 7:15 pm, by Kimberly Ann Priest “Honky-tonk,” I say, “It reminds me of home.” My husband reaps another fry from his plate as the spirit of the music stirs something in me, memories: square dances, VFW halls, the ‘old days’—or so now they seem—when my father walked our small Midwestern … Continue reading Americana Stories—Poetry

The Shrink, by Linda Boroff Her mother had come out to California from Tennessee, a new widow with six ragged kids, a cast iron skillet, and an abiding faith in “Jaysus” and hard work. They had found a cabin in the Santa Cruz redwoods, and the mother opened a dressmaking business. The children raised chickens … Continue reading Americana Stories—Fiction

Epigenetics and the Illustrious MRS. Degree, by Shannon Frost Greenstein  The bell choir broke into an austere rendition of Silent Night, and Heather tried to yawn inconspicuously. The Christmas Eve candlelight service had been lovely, Grandmother was beaming that her favorite granddaughter had attended with new husband in tow, and Heather suspected she herself would … Continue reading Americana Stories—Fiction

Ambient Americana, by Isaac Rubin You’ll find me in moth-ridden corners, dodging the depressed shuffle of trapped tourists — one footfall the echo of a million before it — skittering around like a mouse in the shtetl, huddled in snowy plains where it never rains, sheltered in Langley doorframes shattered by bombs, waiting for a … Continue reading Americana Stories—Poetry

We are thrilled to announce that Chelsea Carrick has joined the americana museum as our new Production Assistant for the weekly series Americana Stories. Chelsea Carrick is a Queens-based freelance writer specializing in food, culture, and politics. Her work has been featured in publications such as Good Beer Hunting, NACLA, and Rest of World. Chelsea … Continue reading Chelsea Carrick Joins the americana museum as New Production Assistant 

Fixtures, by Taylor Franson-Thiel Listen here: taylor-franson-thiel_fixturesDownload Taylor Franson-Thiel is a Pushcart-nominated poet from Utah, now based in Fairfax, Virginia. She received her Master’s in creative writing from Utah State University and is pursuing an MFA at George Mason University. She enjoys lifting heavy weights and posting reviews to Goodreads like someone is actually reading … Continue reading Americana Stories—Poetry

The Mask of Dahlias, by Jose Hernandez Diaz Listen here: HernandezDiaz_Jose_June252024 A man in a "Baudelaire for President" shirt rode a crowded bus downtown to a convention center. He was going to debut his new book of prose poems: "The Mask of Dahlias." The new book was about various philosophical concepts, which cannot be broken … Continue reading Americana Stories—Poetry