no. 2: Living / Dead
Longform
Letter from the Editor
The Woodlands Magazine is alive and well.
The Woodlands Magazine on The Woodlands Cemetery
Editors Armie Chardiet and Mira Sydow had the pleasure of interviewing the director of The Woodlands Cemetery, Jessica Baumert where we discussed memory, life, and the world of the cemetery which inspired the name of this magazine.
Friends of the Dead
Keeping the Grateful Dead alive in music and in memory.
Guinea Pig Elegy in Three Movements
For the St. Vincent orphans, Little Buddies Rescue, and Gustavo
Ode to Collective Memory
Japanese American Identity, the Philadelphia Hostel, and Intergenerational Storytelling
Understanding Blame
The story of a chemical plant explosion on the coast of Texas in 2005 is not relevant anymore—except to those who remember.
Dead to Me
My biological father left me before I was born. I brought him back to life to hurt me, one last time.
A Day in the Life of Paul is Dead
An American arrives at the birthplace of The Beatles to look beyond the theory that “Paul is Dead”
Shadow Blocks on the Ghost App
What happens when an app gives a name to a neighborhood that never existed in the first place?
Playing Apocalypse
Head-first into Humans vs. Zombies, the live-action zombie apocalypse where you fight for your life—with Nerf guns.
Shortform
Node
There was no breath in the world / when it formed
Keepsakes
My mother often recognizes her father in the outline of my shadow.
after [My Life has stood – a Loaded Gun]
my life had stood untethered / and then my eyes – cut through
Oh God
We went and / picked oranges / in front of my house
How to Live on the Dead
My mother was born the year of the rabbit, / and this April my house has become a warren / of cottontails.
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