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The War with Pigs and Dogs
Greed and malice gleamed in the eyes of the attendees; some wanted their brother’s possessions, others wanted to kill their fathers, brothers, and everyone else to enjoy the earth’s riches alone. So all the attendees said in unison: “Give us…
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Girl on Girl (Week Three): Lust Without Equity Is Desperation, Regardless of the Story We Tell Ourselves
When a woman identifies with a man’s needs over her own, she has enabled her own abandonment.
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On the Question of My Typographical Intentions Running across a White Page or A Brief Undercurrent, if You Will, on Messaging within US-American Popular Culture: A Haibun
My maternal grandmother, born & raised in Mississippi, birthed at least two of my aunts & two of my uncles within the state, but I have never lived there myself, so my understandings of place are limited by what I…
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Trying to Be a Better Listener: A Conversation with Jenny Browne
“The border between what we want and what we risk feels so much more fragile and permeable than I want to admit. Because it’s terrifying and no fun to think about losing what you love, but working on that inside…
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The Still Point
No lines or curves to mimic the alphabet of the body. Her hand here, then gone left a nameless eye
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You Think That’s Bad
In the desert of Turkmenistan, the temperature inside the Derweze Crater can reach more than 1,800° Fahrenheit. Locals dub the fire pit the Door to Hell. But maybe they’re missing something important, Aries. Maybe everyone is—fire is not only a…
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The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: An Interview with Jess Row
“I wanted to do something very different. Something more explicitly political, more deeply experimental in the sense of using metafiction, not just as a clever way of reminding the reader that they’re reading a construct, but metafiction that really digs…
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The Space We Make for Each Other
My son taught me that the way someone moves through the world isn’t a problem to solve. It’s a measure of how much room we are willing to make.
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Amelia
No era apenas que ella estuviese perdiendo de vista a las personas y las cosas. Más bien parecía como si todo se estuviera disolviendo. Incluso las memorias estaban perdiendo sus contornos. La playa, la muchedumbre sobre la arena, sus primas…
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Awkward Intimacy
“We have built a world that privileges stimulation over presence and convenience over mutuality. There is an American dimension to this worth naming: a culture organized around individual achievement, self-reliance, and the mythology of pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps…
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The Mystery Isn’t Figured Out: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez
“Publication is punctuation. It’s also a distraction, but it’s necessary because you want to close the circle. When you’re a storyteller or a writer that puts the work out there, having a listener, someone who receives it, completes it and…
