A Legible Self Story
Katie Scruggs GallowayPoetry, short fiction, and personal essays decorated with 35mm film and an ego (the self) looking for a mirror in art (the story).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 11 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 months ago |
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Wake Up It’s the Last Day of Eighth Grade Again You’re Almost Thirty
The boy who liked me but kissed my twin said he loved to sleep because he could dream in HD. He slipped his thick, black brick glasses down his nose and held them loosely in his teeny tween hands like he might decide to toss them out. As if...
He Saves the Bottom Bowl and Calls It Nectar
35mm film
July 21, 2025
I resume the only way I can.
I’m here.
You’re here.
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He Saves the Bottom Bowl and Calls It Nectar
Suddenly the wings have meaning. Rushing violet reassurance came fluttering in: your intuition is trustworthy...
The Green Door & Corner Store Wine
The Green Door
I kiss you goodbye
Twice
First when you leave
Forgetting nothing
Again when you return
Feeling sure you have
And only after
Your car is
Around the corner
Do I catch your scent
Which lingers
Like an echo...
THE 405
Maybe it was just that I hadn’t listened to the radio in some years, but I felt as though the 405 was escorting me into a future that [was for me, yet] had nothing to do with me: a surprise party planned by a stranger.
The ad readers rattl...
I wrote a song about being a tween in 2009
album art, 35mm film
I make music under the name Color Math.
Releases are infrequent, and I rely a lot on a rotating lineup of friends to help produce my music and make it available for listeners. But the songs keep coming like gifts...
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Writer, editor, and author of Still and Still Moving. 35mm film photographer & voice of Color Math music.
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