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Citric Acid

An Online Orange County Literary Arts Quarterly of Imagination and Reimagination

ISSUE #4

Editor's Note

NONFICTION

"Reaching Out to All of Us": On the Telling and Retelling of the Biddy Mason Story

by Dana Johnson

POETRY

by Gustavo Hernandez

INTRODUCTIONS

"Three Introductions"

by Alex Stanley, Kathryn Campo Bowen, and Miles Parnegg

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COMICS

"Political Values"

by Grant Hoskins

NONFICTION

"Field Notes from the Irvine Picket Line"

by Flynn Mixdorf

POETRY

by Patty Seyburn

Photo by Stan Schebs

CONVERSATION

Unbuilding Walls!: A Conversation with carla joy bergman About her New Anthology Trust Kids!—

Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

by Gabriel Zacuto

NONFICTION

"And What is the Moral of this Story?": An excerpt from Trust Kids!—

Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

by Gabriel Zacuto

NONFICTION

Listen to Children: An excerpt from Trust Kids!—

Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

by Sara Zacuto

NONFICTION

"Final Nights at the Frida"

by Maxfield Ney

ARTS COLLABORATION

Excerpts from Saved: Objects of the Dead, a Book about Objects Saved from Deceased Loved Ones

by Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman

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POETRY

Four Poems

by Chris Davidsony

FICTION

"The Grotowski Notebooks: A Glimpse"

by Lisa Black

SPECULATIVE NONFICTION

"Maybe I Was the One Who Was Scared"

by Meredith Gordon

FICTION

Excerpt from Underwater: "ZIP Code and Momentum"

by Dawn Bonker

NONFICTION

by Peter Gerrard

IN MEMORIAM

"Linda Purdy 1943-2022"

by Jonathan Cohen

FICTION

"Waiting for the Light to Change"

by Linda Purdy

POETRY

by Linda Purdy

IN MEMORIAM

"Fellow Travelers: Recalling the Radical Presence of Mike Davis"

by Nicholas Schou

INTERVIEW

"REMEMBERING MIKE DAVIS: 2003 interview captures the then-UC

Irvine historian's views on US imperialism, cities, Orange County,

academia, and UC Irvine"

by Daniel C. Tsang

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