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Deficiency

  • Moa Short
  • March 18, 2025
I’ve never had a cavity, but I brush too hard. A decade ago, a dentist told me I was scrubbing away my own flesh.
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On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs

  • Emily Webber, Rachel Luria, and Beverly Luria
  • March 7, 2025
I saw my fears and yearnings magnified and reflected back to me in Jansson's stories.
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Terrence Loves You

  • Lesley Jenike
  • March 4, 2025
“What a Wonderful World” was something of a protest from the very start.
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A Bloody Brilliant Sentence: Erotic Linguistics in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”

  • Ana Hein
  • February 21, 2025
...I had not yet read horror written by another woman with such a rich, arresting evocation of female sexuality.
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Parallel Practice: How to Break a Sentence

  • Randle Browning
  • February 20, 2025
Which color might capture the word “would,” for example? And which stitch?
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Losers Keepers

  • Miriam Fried
  • February 18, 2025
It’s hard to go on reading when you don’t remember what happened twenty pages ago, so I haven’t read many novels recently.
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On Snorting Human Remains

  • Benedetto Maniscalco
  • February 11, 2025
One of my friends, Enzo, had just died, and he’d probably felt a similar way, invincible and lost.
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Ruins

  • Ruby Djuna Hack
  • January 21, 2025
The Economist and I have loved each other since we were seventeen, and because of this I fear growing old.
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I'm a cliche
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Nothing New Under the Sun: The Russian Formalists’ Guide to Prose Craft

  • Joshua Keller
  • January 10, 2025
With a fixation on abstract novelty, our students call to us from a crowded space of so many like tales and so much pressure to spit out some shiny new thing.
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An Imprecise Translation

  • Cesar E. Cisneros
  • January 7, 2025
There are feelings, memories, behind everything you say. If only it were as simple as putting your hand to your temple.
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Wilder’s Mozzy

  • Mac Crane
  • December 20, 2024
We feel a pull toward the missing person, want to find them, give a little bark or nip at their heels, then direct them home.
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Parallel Practice: Haunting in Theory/Haunting in Practice

  • Lauren Brazeal Garza
  • December 19, 2024
Salt is used for food, not purification. Candles should be burned for ambiance, not to manipulate energies.
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