Underlined by Usawa

Usawa Literary Review

Feb 15, 2025

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UNDERLINED by Usawa

15 January 2025

Submissions Open: Summer 2025 Issue, ULR

Theme: Memories of the Future

Isn’t premonition memory of the

future? Did Proust say writers have

a blurred memory of things they do

not know?

-Memory by Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Calling Over Water

Time flows linearly. We move forward and then memories sneak up and take us back or rather, bring to the present what once was. And in dreams instead of falling downwards, the sand in our hourglass may start moving up.

All memory is imagination. All dreams are…well dreams.

Imagining, dreaming, and remembering by their very nature resist censor. Are they acts of resistance then? Then writing in their language must be too.

When we mine your dreams tomorrow what would we find?

Find out more and submit here.

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