“Recovery” Featured Artist Lissa Staples
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome back writer Lissa Staples of Colorado with an extremely moving prose poem/flash piece, “Every Time I Call.” Lissa writes of her mother, a former classical …
“Belonging” Featured Artist William Cass
Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming back southern California writer William Cass with “Baptism,” a probing look at the intersection between aging and belonging in the context of marriage. Emma, raised …
“Family” Featured Artist Julie Dron
Synkroniciti is glad to welcome back writer Julie Dron, currently based in Taiwan, with “Returning,” a striking flash fiction piece telling the story of Yi-Jun, a daughter returning home after …
“Broken” Featured Artist Merryn Rutledge
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet Merryn Rutledge who won the “Curiosity” poetry contest in our previous issue. “Broken” features two pieces. In “Trying to Imagine From Far Away, …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we move away from …
Quote for Today: Steven R. Boyett
You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels …
Quote for Today: Ocean Vuong
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When I got to the waterfront, I parked the car beside a deserted warehouse, smoked a cigarette and put Bob Dylan on auto-repeat. I reclined the seat, kicked both …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Goldstein
I turn on my computer to search Craigslist for apartment listings. The wireless window pops up, and I realize with some regret that all I know about my neighbours …
Quote for Today: Beryl Markham
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except …