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TOMORROW I SHALL BE FETTERLESS-BUT WHERE?

I would question the sanity of anyone who’s not questioning their own sanity nowadays, Doctor, but this patient of mine — Patient Z, let’s call ...

by Alex Sheal | January 4, 2021January 4, 2021
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SOWING SEA MEADOWS

Mama lets the paddling pool water spill onto the grass. That’s how the neighbors’ kids know it’s time to go home. Continue Reading ...

by Rosaleen Lynch | December 25, 2020December 25, 2020
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MAGPIE

I could hear them every day. Sometimes they sounded like little horses cantering around on the warehouse’s rooftop. Hooves reverberating on metal sheets. Their calls ...

by Lisa Murphy | December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
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NEW SPAIN

Cortes looked out through the moonlit night, out across the steaming ground, out across the glistening earth, out upon the bodies that lay and lay ...

by Sam Howroyd | December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
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TOLSTOY VISITS HIS STEPMOM

The weather had turned for the better since the last night. She had retired to her room when he arrived at half past ten. So ...

by Sobia Ali | November 27, 2020November 27, 2020
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MEDUSA GOES TO MORRISONS — BY EMILIA ONG

It’s terrible, you see they’ve started using paper bags at the supermarket. Brown paper bags. Well it didn’t take me long to figure out that ...

by Emilia Ong | November 20, 2020November 20, 2020
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KEEP YOUR KNICKERS ON

As a teen, I was obsessed with my knickers, whether to allow boys into them and getting them in a twist. My mother instilled in ...

by Caroline Grobler-Tanner | November 13, 2020November 13, 2020
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GLUE

She had been collecting supplies for some time: fabric, yarn, scissors, and glue. Strong glue. She needed this to hold together. Continue Reading ...

by Terri Mullholland | November 9, 2020November 9, 2020
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THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY

All the zines were printed at Lehman Brothers. All the zines were printed at Goldman Sachs. All the zines were printed at Merrill Lynch. ...

by Linda Mannheim | October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
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ON THE RECENT SERIES OF DISAPPEARANCES IN YOUR SMALL TOWN

In March, the snow melted, and the lake thawed, and we had to watch as these bloated bodies full of holes and pond scum all ...

by Kaitlyn Lynch | October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
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VIEW OF THE POND

She watches the pond from the front of the house. Upstairs. Her bedroom. In a pause between painting, where her brush wilts in the bottom ...

by Natascha Graham | October 9, 2020October 9, 2020
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A CLEAN SHAVE

Theo II’s ghost haunts me most nights, ever since I found him hanging in the stables, an ending that no doubt hastened the death of ...

by Tom Walsh | October 2, 2020October 2, 2020
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RUINS

In this short piece, Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, Carol Bensimon, posits the life of a pool man after the virus has wrecked the tourism ...

by Carol Bensimon | September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
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NAME HER FOR HOPE —

I was born at 6:04 p.m. on the 3rd day of the Moon’s skulking journey across the skylands. She is a child of Krithika, the ...

by Ashanya Indralingam | September 18, 2020September 18, 2020
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ARMBARS–IOWA CITY 1995

As I’d begun to do lately, get out paper, my stack of comics from under the bed. I start drawing. Jittery, a twiddling, nerve-pulling runway, touch-down, ...

by Uzodinma Okehi | September 11, 2020September 11, 2020
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CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE

Papa’s blood runs hot, a carryover from the Sicilian sun, Mama says. Temperatures rise, and storms brew, feeding off the latent heat. The fury of ...

by Dakota Canon | September 7, 2020September 25, 2020
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AGAIN, YET AGAIN

I was sitting in the rail station waiting for the 10:30 to London when a mother with two small children sat beside me, her daughter ...

by Lakshmi Gill | August 28, 2020August 28, 2020
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BAD QI

He licks her big toe, glides his tongue across the arch of her foot, softens the cracked and toughened skin of her heel with warm ...

by Lucy Zhang | August 21, 2020August 21, 2020
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The way the two women walk six feet apart, one on the sidewalk and the other in the empty street = the way the body ...

by Alan Michael Parker | August 15, 2020August 15, 2020
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LIGHTING THE MATCH

All that winter we read Hannah Arendt, we read Men in Dark Times. Continue Reading LIGHTING THE MATCH

by Linda Mannheim | August 7, 2020August 7, 2020

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