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The Broken City, ISSN 1916-3304, is published semi-annually out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, appearing sporadically in print, but always at: www.geocities.com/thebrokencitymag. Submissions can be sent to: [email protected]. Questions about The Broken City or its policies can be directed to Editor-in-chief Scott Bryson at [email protected]. Rights to individual works published in The Broken City remain the property of the author and cannot be reproduced without their consent. All other materials © 2009. All rights reserved. All wrongs reserved.

 

"And I don't have time to argue with the laundromat owner because I've only just returned from a trip, having realized that it broke my heart to leave the city. Or really that it broke whatever wasn't broken in the city already. I would explain to him about getting back to the city, about having to find you, except that I think sometimes we have to edit our reasons for things. This becomes another scene depicting a dramatic return: I get back to this very broken city and I'll go out to find you. I will find you at a public monument, I will find you on a vast flight of cracked concrete stairs, tumbling apart." —Kyle Buckley, Laundromat Essay