Rosamund

He Said It’s All In Your Head and I Said So Is Everything but He Didn’t Get It | C. Russell Price

October 6, 2017 by Rosamund

1. The Antidepressants Early into loving uhhhh, fuck him, I’m just going to call him The Unlovable Man, he says Why are you so sad today? — you’ve got me and everything we need right now. How can I tell him that when he is a polite little spoon curled up beside me that I am thinking I want my absence more than I want his presence? We curl our hands together and I think of his body an anchor, […]

Categories: C. Russell Price, Meanwhile

[EDITORS] We’re coming back from hiatus and things are going to be different.

September 11, 2017 by Rosamund

We took some time off this summer to find ourselves. No mountain climbing in Nepal, but we are changing Story Club Magazine’s format. Live storytelling is electric, and immersive, and visceral, and we want Story Club Magazine to reflect that. Starting on October 4, we will publish audio and video stories so you, at home, can experience what it’s like to be in the room where it happens. What does that mean? We’ll publish a new audio/video story every Wednesday, […]

Categories: Uncategorized

Listening is Critical | Paul Gaszak

July 8, 2017 by Rosamund

During my last few years of undergrad, I worked as a supervisor at a Chicago Tribune distribution warehouse in the southwest suburbs. The job was seven nights a week, in the middle of the night. It was an exhausting routine. Thankfully, I worked with some fun and interesting people, which brought a touch of joy and humor to the nightly grind. The nature of the job had us standing at workstations for at least a few hours a night as […]

Categories: Josephine Woodall, Paul Gaszak, Story Club South Side, Uncategorized

Black Superman | Josie Woodall

June 23, 2017 by Rosamund

I had a framed photo hanging prominently in the entrance of my apartment. Most people recognized that the photo was taken in the Oval Office of the White House. They also recognized the two old, white, jovial men flanking the black man in the middle as George Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan. But then, “Is that…” They took a closer look at the man in the middle, “Is that your dad?!” My dad wore many hats: politician, social justice warrior, social […]

Categories: Josephine Woodall, Story Club Cleveland, Uncategorized

Martial Arts | Clarence Browley

June 14, 2017 by Rosamund

When I was a kid, me and my two cousins were way into martial arts. My favorite martial artist was Jean-Claude Van Damme and his signature move was the flying roundhouse. I practiced this to no end, and eventually got pretty good at it. The summer before 7th grade, I moved to Pilsen and started a new school. I was one of only three black kids at this school. I stood out like a sore thumb. My class contained the […]

Categories: Clarence Browley, Uncategorized

Orange | Karen Clanton

May 31, 2017 by Rosamund

It was simply unacceptable for Anne to ramble around in her husband’s girlfriend’s trunk any longer, we decided. It had taken almost six years to get her remains, and we didn’t want Anne to linger in indignity for another second. So we met the girlfriend one Saturday afternoon to collect the urn and ashes from her Chevy Malibu. After repeatedly calling and texting to track her down, our persistence led us to the dry cleaners next to the gas station […]

Categories: Karen Clanton, Story Club South Side, Uncategorized

Bodies | Brooke Allen

May 18, 2017 by Rosamund

I wrote this piece after the election, but I don’t want to talk about politics. We’ve had enough of that this week. Just this morning I was told by a man on Facebook that I was “extremely arrogant” for expressing my political views. So I’m not even going to mention the election, or even tell you who I voted for. It will have to remain a yuuuuge mystery. I promise this piece will be absolutely unbiased toward any candidate or […]

Categories: Brooke Allen, You're Being Ridiculous

Guilt | Al Rosenberg

May 10, 2017 by Rosamund

“Guilt” was read as part of Miss Spoken’s March 2017 show. The theme was Sibling Rivalry, and you can listen to the live show here. This story appears at 51:23. Jordan was born the year I first kissed a girl. (I was six and my first love told me kissing was just for boy-girl couples, after I’d planted my lips firmly on hers – my first vivid lesson in consent.) Jordan’s mother was not my mother and his father, gone before […]

Categories: Al Rosenberg, Miss Spoken, Uncategorized

Run…Don’t Walk! | Angel Simmons

May 4, 2017 by Rosamund

I had just started that job three weeks ago. I thought it was going to change my life. Everything was still new and fresh and bright and shiny. This was my first job with my own office! Now granted, the walls didn’t quite reach the ceiling… but it was still my own office. And we could pretty much yell over that wall and talk to each other without getting up… but it was still my own office. It was April […]

Categories: Angel Simmons, Story Club South Side, Uncategorized

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