Been Bags

I’ve Been Meaning To Call

Paul Crenshaw | Melt With Me | 6th March 2025

“Forgive me, friend, I’ve been meaning to call. I am not avoiding you. I thought about you this morning on my way to work. The snow made me think of you, the frost on the trees. Maybe it was the way the sun came up, etching the world into shape. Maybe it was the contemplative quiet of early morning highways. Maybe it was the longing in the grayness of dawn, the belief that something better is coming” (1,100 words)

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Bags

Diego Alfaro Palma & Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta | Offing | 11th March 2025

Satire of the bag. “Bags can live for years high in a tree, much like other creatures of the plastic animal kingdom. Bags form colonies that absorb other colonies of marine mammals and reptiles, who — in confusion — eat them, believing them to be jellyfish or Medusas. Bags eat away at the beliefs held by human beings regarding usefulness. Through this tactic, they determine their multiplication and survival” (1,300 words)