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The Nocturne Letters: a selection
The Nocturne Letters: a selection

I believe music can be found in a gesture, the color of the sky, a smile. But possibly I am confounding music with beauty.

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Music, SelectionsTopaz WintersMay 29, 2017Marko Saaresto, Poets of the Fall, love letters
Announcing the Submission Deadline for Issue III: Nocturne
Announcing the Submission Deadline for Issue III: Nocturne

And once more, sure as night rings onto the horizon, the third reading period for Half Mystic is closed.

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Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersMay 28, 2017
“The night is always alive.” (Lucy Ryan on Nocturne)
“The night is always alive.” (Lucy Ryan on Nocturne)

Even now I can wear night like a comfort, even if remembering hurts sometimes. The moments still feel magical.

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Music, Personal EssayGuestMay 24, 2017lucy ryan
Songs for the Nocturne Issue (a selection)
Songs for the Nocturne Issue (a selection)

A small mix of songs that are inspiring the Half Mystic team in our creation of Issue III.

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Music, SelectionsTopaz WintersMay 20, 2017andrew lloyd webber, florence + the machine, hozier, john mayer, lorde, marika hackman, of monsters and men, oh wonder, pinegrove, porches, rurutia, the smiths
III: Nocturne | Searchlight Song: "Variations on a Theme"
III: Nocturne | Searchlight Song: "Variations on a Theme"

I can explain it so well. The night soft-nosed and sprawling. This air is heavy on my teeth, but I can trust it for now.

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Columns, Music, Personal EssayChristina ImMay 15, 2017searchlight song
“There is a tone to nighttime in all its quiet, misery, and insomnia that makes it louder than the day.” (Audrey Lee on Nocturne)
“There is a tone to nighttime in all its quiet, misery, and insomnia that makes it louder than the day.” (Audrey Lee on Nocturne)

I find nocturne in the buffering of the wind against my car windows as I speed down the freeway at nine o’clock in the evening.

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Music, Personal EssayGuestMay 8, 2017audrey lee
Miles and Miles and Miles to Go
Miles and Miles and Miles to Go

I took comfort in making myself even smaller, tucking in my edges until I felt whole. Myself, a perfect and solitary thing.

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Film, Music, Personal EssayLydia EileenApril 26, 2017Topaz Winters, The Plain White T's, The Cure, Saint Motel, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ishan Modi, Duran Duran, Dexys Midnight Runners
Preorders are Open for Issue III: Nocturne
Preorders are Open for Issue III: Nocturne

Something sharp & true shifts within us when we embrace darkness instead of shying away from it.

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Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersApril 10, 2017Leonard Cohen, Maryse Meijer, Kristen Berger, Sophia Terazawa, Erica Bramham, Emily Blue, Lisa Heller
A Million Things: The Uncertain Eternities in Harold and Maude
A Million Things: The Uncertain Eternities in Harold and Maude

I am living with them. Because of them. Because of them.

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Art, Film, MusicLydia EileenMarch 25, 2017cat stevens, tchaikovsky
¿Libretto Crescendo?
¿Libretto Crescendo?

A violin plays, the notes lifting up and back down again, reverting in the end back again into air. I breathe. Somehow, it makes sense.

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Music, Personal Essay, TheatreLydia EileenFebruary 20, 2017tchaikovsky
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