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The Thread

Andrew Johnson

The Thread is a magazine for art and writing based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Substack
PricingOnly free issuesPublishesWeekly
Issues159Founded5 years agoLast Issue8 months ago
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Latest Issues

Farewell, Substack

Friends, neighbors, readers, good folks, fellow countrymen, etc.:

I love writing. I love sharing my work. I won’t stop.

But damn, it’s like Substack started taking steroids this year. It has turned into something that I no longer recogniz...

8 months ago
4

updates and slowdowns

Hello!

It’s been a bit of a slowdown around here, am I right? I’ve not sent more than a couple Thread emails since the spring. It’s been a tough year for a number of reasons, and my writing practice has not been consistent as a result. But...

9 months ago
1

Measuring life by the summers

Hello again,

I don’t know who said it first, but I love the idea that life is not counted in years but in summers.

For the past decade my summers have been full of three kids and the many things they chase after while school is out — swi...

a year ago
4

How to Shed a Cicada Shell


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How To Shed A Cicada Shell  

Crawl through the dark dirt 
and surface into the daylight. 
Don’t stop there.  
Climb the trunk...
a year ago
4

The price of everything


The price of everything keeps going up, and just this morning the shopkeeper stepped outside, as he does every morning, with his placards and his long pole, standing below the large sign that is 25 feet above the ground, and he hoist...

a year ago

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