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  • Notes from the Playground
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    Elana Kupor

    Notes from the Playground

    I am four years old, standing on the playground of the Jewish Community Center where I go to nursery school. My best friend Alice is not here today. Alice is my only friend. She lives in a bigger house than…

  • I’m a Freak
    Maggie Bell

    I’m a Freak

    It took me too long to take my own suffering seriously. I understood myself to be privileged and felt I had no reason to complain. I was part of a largely white suburban nuclear family (my father is Jewish, of…

  • Foxglove
    Kristine Langley Mahler

    Foxglove

    Foxglove grows in bells, a stalk with different chambers. When foxglove bells are plucked and dried, crumbled and served in a tea, they enter the ventricles of the heart. Foxglove works like a remedy. The primary principle of homeopathy is…

  • I Thought America Was the Thief: Mastery and Assimilation in Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place”
    Asa Drake

    I Thought America Was the Thief: Mastery and Assimilation in Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place”

    Lately, in my social media feed, I’ve seen a James Baldwin quote surface between news stories and advertisements: “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This…

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