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Lessons of Grief

The day that it happened, the United States Postal Service unveiled The Simpson’s collectors’ set—a five-stamp commemorative booklet featuring Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3351 words)

Map to Motherland

BY MOLLY BEER This morning, Steven and I woke up late and tired because our two-year-old had been up twice in the night dreaming about scary dinosaurs and then there was an incident with a rat in our…
AUTHOR:Molly Beer
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3210 words)
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The Size of Regret

Crammed in a small phone booth, I gripped the receiver in my hand like I was afraid to let go. The sounds of the chaos outside— screaming, half-naked men and women running through the street…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3711 words)

On Packing

It is best to use a well-made bed or the floor, so long as you have a large, smooth, clear surface, a canvas, if you will. It is best to start early, to take your time, to mentally map out (a maze of…
AUTHOR:Molly Beer
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4358 words)

Disappearances Have To Disappear

Bodies meant nothing to me. When they jammed into me on the metro or the bus, rather than tensing, pushing, or fighting for some tiny symbolic personal space I learned to let all my air out and…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5711 words)

Backpackers in Paradise

Our minibus is whisking us around flash cards of local color. The Waterfall. The Woman Walking on the Dusty Roadside. The Sulking Men on Motorbikes. The Village Store called “Christo!”…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7113 words)

A Loaded Gun

Amy Bishop alongside her parents, Judy and Sam, in 1987. Judy calls Amy a “brilliant girl” who “just snapped.”
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (957 words)

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Vela Magazine » On the Rails in Phnom Penh » Print

We called him Eat Pray Paul. Because there were two Pauls and they were more or less indistinguishable — both red-faced old dudes who’d been kicking out Cambodia for years, smoking ice,…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4287 words)
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