Phillip Barron

Short essay in Like the Wind magazine My favorite sports magazines have always been those written, edited, and published by a community that truly loves their sport. For mountain biking, it was Dirt Rag magazine. As a runner, I subscribe to several, but I always spend the most time, per issue, with Like the Wind. It publishes the most authentic stories from runners who put to words their passion for everything from marathon training to race day to the daily standards.

While in graduate school, I wrote a little thing about nothing. I’m not sure if it is a prose poem or a story or an essay, but whatever it is, the cross-genre journal Espacio Fronterizo found room for it in their November 2023 publications. Thanks to the editors for letting “Desert Landscapes” find a home. When you see a train, you see the whole miles-long train of hoppers and tankers and engines, you see it all at once, all in one look off to the side.