Gray Flag #3

The third issue of Gray Flag zine comprises the journal entries Chris Auman kept as a writing student in Chicago in the 1990s.

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4.125″ x 5.875″ 28 pages, color cover, b&w throughout, stapled, 100 lb paper, 110 lb

Introduction to Gray Flag #3

This is the third issue of Gray Flag. It is likely the last one comprised of journal entries I kept as a writing student at Columbia College in the early 1990s.

I didn’t think there was much left to glean from those two notebooks I’d been toting around from apartment to apartment for the past three decades. I realized, however, that stringing some of these entries together formed a narrative even though they were written many months apart.

Some entries were written as they happened, or shortly thereafter, while the others were written months later as in-class writing assignments. For example, “Letter Never Sent” was not an actual letter not sent but a part of a writing exercise, and “Egg Shift” was written for a class a year after the fact. For this reason, the date following the title is when the entry was written and not when the events described took place. —January, 2023