PostScript / A Menu

Firsts

aka Conch Fritters, Shark Hash & the Like

Rooftops

by Makim Ori

from his aptly titled project Staying Local - to fall even further into Private Islander's daydream.

about the authenticities of Home

by your editor

on a stage in Southampton, Bermuda, waxing poetic

Stretching on the arm of nostalgia

by The Learnalots

In the spirit of Chenae's LGW to BDA journey, here's all about the locus of departure and arrival (before it was swank, new, and when you walked from aircraft to apron).

For obsessive-observation of a howl

by Nonsuch Island

or what William Strachey described as, "A kind of web-footed fowl."

Seconds

A full plate made by someone's aunty at a Cupmatch Camp, also, a half Lobster in Season & Codfish on Sundays

Of the migration of the first West Indians to Bermuda.

by the NMB

"Nonetheless, in spite of this, more Caribbean migrants entered, and with their predecessors bought homes, built innumerable businesses, staffed schools (around Pembroke and, indeed, around the island), educated a generation of Bermudians, and promoted the education of their own children. Often this went on quietly with little celebration of either their hard work or their vision." A thankless, homing.

Exodus

by Robert Nesta Marley

A Movement of Jah people.

Memory

by Maria Popova

In the midst of trauma, lived or - like Keilyn's gutwrenching piece - closely observed. How the body keeps score in the midst of trauma, how memory asserts itself or shows up entirely thin and fuzzy, in effort of protection.

What doesn't seem so strange now

by Takuya Kuroda

Mandy was just 20 years or so ahead of her time.

The role the 'postscript' is to accompany the central theme or tone of the issue. In that way, the postscript acts as an of addendum of sorts, a further reading, a thing that offers a bit more context. Maybe it takes the form of notes for one issue, a reference list, or a Works Cited and fleshes out certain ideas put forth in the Longform piece. Maybe sometimes it takes the form of links to other readings, documentaries, things that will accompany the issue. Imagine it as a literary soundtrack - the thing that compliments the contributors' works. It's the editor scoring the issue that they have so carefully curated - making it sonorous and full of harmony.

Still Vexed