People Make Plans

People Make Plans is a slowly bubbling perzine, that pulls you in at an even and methodical pace. Nicole switches back and forth between her life in Portland, Oregon, drunkenly racing over bridges, to her childhood in New England. Nicole wrote People Make Plans after her mother and grandmother suddenly passed away, and her description of her grief, of selecting photos for the memorial slideshow, of trying to be the brave-faced older sister, are absolutely heart-wrenching. In Nicole's zine, the themes are universal and the writing is superbly vivid.