The Beautiful War

The mocking bird outside my window has learned to imitate a car alarm, which in my opinion is the saddest repercussion of “the information age,”…

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Our Minds Were Not Made

Our minds were not made to understand the time it took for reptiles to fly or for gas to form rock to form water. Hair…

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Milk

Washing the udder first, warm water, not too hot, with a squirt of lavender Dawn dish soap, then gently drying with my t-shirt, Mom always…

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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2

VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2 Kevin Adler, Maggie Bohara, Jody Brooks, Amanda Nicole Corbin, Caitlin Corrigan, Leesa Cross-Smith, Mark Elberfeld, Angela Fraleigh, Ian Golding, Carrie Guss,…

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Flux

When the milk cow hadn’t spared a drop even for the calving, when its udder shriveled like a rotting pawpaw, Ora carried sweet Lily, white…

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Relentless

My father is a mime. Always waving his arms at us. Always drawing lines. Even in sleep, his nervous hands press and pull the air…

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1973

As David unbuttoned her blouse in the studio apartment on West 12th Maya wondered if they’d waited too long. They’d waited in high school, jammed…

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MAX

When my daughter said they’d named their son Max “because he looked like a Max,” I didn’t believe her. “All babies look like Churchill,” I…

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Endometriosis

I. In the mirror there are two bruises. Line them up. They form a crooked black heart; an evil twin valentine folded in half. That…

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Lucky

On the first day I was alive, Michael Jackson held me. I remember every second of it. Santa Monica Hospital, October second, a Sunday. I…

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