Grace Mahoney

Jul 19, 2024 | brickmag.com | Ronna Bloom |Victoria Amelina |Grace Mahoney |Thomas Larson

The day I discover I’ve been catfished, I walk into the local library because I don’t know where to put myself. I am bewildered. Wander among the books. A white police officer is talking to a Black security guard. On my way out, I hear him ask, “Do you want to file a criminal charge?” I don’t hear the answer. It’s teeming with rain as I walk up Bathurst Street, loud with cars. A bus splashes, and I jump out of the way. A man chuckles behind me, and I jump again, but this time a yell comes out.

Jun 26, 2024 | brickmag.com | Victoria Amelina |Grace Mahoney |Andrea Zimmerman |Thomas Larson

Ne m’oubliez pasThe first meat dishes at the home on Lepky were a sham. The Tsilyks don’t even have enough food for themselves. So I’ve had to get used to pearl barley, buckwheat, and pasta. Animal bones are first used for thin soup broth, and only after that do they come to me. I didn’t feel like hunting before—so now this is what I have. But I am here temporarily. I still believe I will return to Novers’k.