SEAN COLEMAN APRIL 2024

On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he had no intention of ever leaving it again.

I am halfway gone into the aether. I try to say something.

but no sound leaves me.

The light continues to grow until it’s all I see, the theatre is gone,

and my body has finally slipped away.

FARUK AKGUN APRIL 2024

LISA MICHELLE BURNS

EXT. SHIBUYA STATION - DAY

Charlotte gets out at shibuya station, a crowded neighborhood filled with neon, ads, and people.

She looks up at the huge intersection as tons of JAPANESE PEOPLE wait to cross the street, no one steps forward until the cross-walk light changes, and all of them cross.

A TV screen covering a building plays commercials.

She roams around the narrow streets, crowded with stylish JAPANESE KIDS, tan SCHOOLGIRLS pass her.