The Muleskinner Journal

Journal Eighteen
Borderlands

For Journal Eighteen, we’re on the edge.

We’re lurking in places where perspectives shift, where loyalties change, where hard decisions are made or hard realities faced. We’re in the Borderlands.

Join us. Test your allegiances. Try to make sense of the uneven ground around you. Whether these borders are defined, like a river or a road; or abstract, like a surveyor’s line of sight, the areas around these borders, the borderlands, feel different. Something is changing. We all feel it. 

For Journal Eighteen, we offer the stories, poems, characters, and places that take you to the outer limits, the dotted lines on the map, the portal calling you through. 

Explore these uncertain lands.
We will introduce you to the wells and ne’er-do-wells that live there.
We will bring forward wanderers, smugglers, tricksters, translators, and shapeshifters.
We are banished to the desert. Cross over with us.

Return us from exile.

Read Selections from Journal Eighteen Below:

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