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A Word from the Editor

November 26, 2024/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2025, Word From the Editor / Jessica Ballen

The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand, to let others know our thoughts and feelings on today’s state of affairs, that we stand in community with those fighting against the various systems of oppression and those demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

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Word from the Editor

December 4, 2023/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2024, Word From the Editor / Michaela Emerson

Writing feels impossible now.

Necessary, but impossible.

I don’t want to try making deep metaphors right now. I don’t want to inch my way to some profound realization, hoping the reader is inching along with me. Just writing those words, the poet in me felt inclined to add a metaphor to the previous sentence, as if everything needs to be earnest and pretty.

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Word from the Editor

June 7, 2023/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2023, Word From the Editor / Michaela Emerson

If you are an artist of any kind, chances are you are no stranger to The Unknown. In fact, it has probably been a motivating factor in creating your art. I know it has been for me. Wrestling with The Unknown is a fundamental part of the human experience, and the human experience is a fundamental part of art.

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Word from the Editor

December 6, 2022/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2023, Word From the Editor / Barbara Platts
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Word from the Editor

June 12, 2022/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2022, Word From the Editor / Barbara Platts
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Word from the Editor

December 7, 2021/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2022 / Regan Humphrey

In 1921, Warren G. Harding was sworn in as the 29th President of the United States. Calvin Coolidge (a future president himself) was sworn in as his Vice President. On Campobello Island, another future present, Franklin D. Roosevelt was on vacation when his paralytic illness struck; he was diagnosed with polio and at age 39 became permanently disabled.

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That which has yet to emerge

Word from the Editor

June 15, 2021/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2021, Word From the Editor / Regan Humphrey

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Lunch Ticket’s 19th Issue, themed That Which Has Yet to Emerge. This issue is nothing if not a reflection of our strange and unprecedented times. At the end of 2021’s first act—this June intermission, if you will—we present to you a collection of work that brings hope, humor, seriousness, and solidarity to a moment we have never experienced before.

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Word From the Editor

December 7, 2020/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2021, Word From the Editor / Loumarie Ivette Rodriguez
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Staring At A Wall

December 6, 2020/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2021 / Andy Bodinger

I am asexual, and I don’t find much reason to bring it up. The work of spreading awareness of this little-discussed sexuality is important, for sure.[…]

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Explaining Black Lives

December 6, 2020/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2021 / Janel George

I think of Ahmaud Arbery who was gunned down by white vigilantes while running in his own neighborhood. I clicked on the video of his killing—which I usually try to avoid doing—and watched as he stumbled after the first bullet and attempted to keep running, my heart breaking as they gunned him down until he lay still. […]

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Word From the Editor

December 22, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amanda Lopez, Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020
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The Sign Language Alphabet, in Words

December 3, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez
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Politics and Art

December 2, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Dara Herman Zierlein
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Word From the Editor

May 20, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Kori Kessler, Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019
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On the Importance of Young Adult Fiction

May 19, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Jennifer Brody

I only have five minutes to make my flight. I rush to the gate, slip into my cramped seat, still breathing hard from the mad dash to the gate. I pull out my journal to write. Writing settles my nerves. It’s my safe haven. It’s my security blanket. The well-meaning stranger next to me spots […]

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True Passion in Paradise

May 10, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Sumayah Chappelle
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Representation of Systemic Racism

May 6, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Arianna Hayes
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Word From the Editor

December 7, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Kori Kessler, Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

“Like the mutability of social strictures in my lost and new homelands, my work embraces ambiguity and uncertainty,” Tatiana Garmendia writes about her portfolio Migrations. Garmendia’s work “wrestles with conflicting moral intuitions, with the personal and the historic.” Whether the medium is writing, painting, or even dance, the creative mind is driven to tell our […]

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Alone in Company

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Chelsea Bayouth

Before my eyes open, I begin my day by searching for my phone. My hand runs over the covers, under the pillow, along the stack of books on my bedside table. More often than not, I find it and am plunged into the rush of notifications, which I absorb with one eye closed, because of my astigmatism. But some mornings my phone has fallen between the bed and the wall. The first time this happened I tried to carry on with my morning, feed the cats, pee, but a feeling kept sounding the alarm that I had forgotten something. I paced the apartment, into the kitchen, back into the bedroom, the bathroom. My husband was sleeping and to retrieve my phone from between the bed and the wall would be to wake him. Which is precisely what I found myself doing. And before the sun was up we were moving the mattress, so I could snatch that which brings me, joy.

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Migrations

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Tatiana Garmendia

The following narrative should be read alongside Tatiana Garmendia’s artist portfolio Migrations. The doilies function as surrogates for the domestic domain. Their fragility contrasts starkly with brutal memories of the night the G2 Cuban secret police took my father away for a two-year interrogation. Mounted on drone footage from a random suburban Washington neighborhood, they point to the intrusion […]

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Girl’s Dresser – 1991

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Kobina Wright

Girl’s Dresser is not my first attempt at using watercolor, though it’s among the earliest ones on my long journey to becoming an artist. This piece was created in 1991 after I had turned sixteen. The start of the year was one of my most dramatic teenage years. Second only to the year I became pregnant […]

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Experiencing Whiteness

May 29, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Akhila Kolisetty

Author’s Note: Names have been changed throughout this piece The dawn emerges, and, as if straight out of a movie, a rooster begins to crow. The rooster in question belongs to my neighbor, who is lucky enough to own several chickens. I’m in Gondama, a small town twenty kilometers from Bo, the second largest city […]

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Economic Anxiety

May 29, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Cortney Lamar Charleston

My college decision was a compromise of impulses. These were my most important criteria: not close to home (so I would grow more and have more independence); located in or in immediate proximity of a large city (where there’d be a decent amount of Black people who existed who were not me); top-notch academics (since my mind deserved a challenge and I’m a competitive person deep down); prestige (translation: respect). My father didn’t really care what I did, but not in a lazy way we expect of men—he just trusted I was already thinking of the right things, as he’d always done. My mother was all about practicality: “make sure you can go out there and get a job when you graduate.”

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Souvenirs

May 29, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Souvenir is one of the first French words I learned in childhood, before taking any language lessons at school. I was enamored with its luxurious vowels, its music. I learned the Arabic-accented pronunciation of it from my mother and her friends, women of the Levant, as the French would designate their homelands, living in Saudi […]

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Word From the Editor

November 24, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Katelyn Keating, Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

“Justice work is life work,” Ashaki Jackson says in her interview with Lunch Ticket. “Think of it as a chorus: there will always be more than one voice looking for the perfect, rich harmony.” The staff and contributors at Lunch Ticket are part of this chorus. Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018 is an offering from our […]

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The Architect

November 22, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Chad Baker with Antonio Gutierrez

1996 El edificio más alto en el mundo. In a primary school in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, an eight-year-old child stares at a picture in a textbook. Their third-grade geography class is studying a big city in the United States called Chicago. They have skyscrapers there. The biggest is the Sears Tower, which, the […]

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Workplace Silence

November 21, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Nicole Cyrus

“You don’t say no to me,” my colleague said in a thick drawl. “This isn’t over.” The phone line went dead after the threat—his revenge to my rejection of his business proposal. I didn’t own or want a weapon, but that day I feared for my safety at work. The muscles in my jaw tensed […]

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Nostalgia

November 19, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Teresa H. Janssen

I am at my classroom door. I reach for my key, unlock the door, prop it open, and turn the key again. Open, but locked. I stand at my door, look up inside the frame, and pause, for the most important step. I reach for the anti-latch device and flip it sideways. It keeps the […]

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Word From the Editor

June 16, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Katelyn Keating, Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

“Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old,” wrote Brian Doyle in “Joyas Voladoras.” His recent death […]

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Weekend Work Program

May 23, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Caesar Kent

We cannot tell these Sunday drivers that we have already faced judgment, that we’ve pled no contest to our sins, that we are only lesser criminals, serving a softer version of hard time. Their looks could never be as harsh as handcuffs and a hangover on the hard benches of a holding cell. We are […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

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Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe
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Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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