I have a friend—

I have a friend who desperately wants to get married. But you can tell just from looking at her that she is not the marrying…

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Parable

The parable of the woman who eats sundials is like that of the river-snake with no lungs. She destroys the cornfields and leaves only the…

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Christmas Eve, 1875

Pretending I was the house terrier, I crawled under the parlor sideboard to lap up what fallen crumbs I might find. When Father saw what…

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The Dive

Our grandfather gyrates skinless on the diving board, holds his arms out, jumps in. Water turns pink following the cramping of vulnerable red muscles twitching…

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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1

VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1 Selena Anderson, Garrett Ashley, Lauren Becker, S.G. Childress, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Nicolle Elizabeth, Bryce Emley, Kendra Fortmeyer, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Scott…

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Hand Over Hand

At the college they’re reenacting famous plane crashes. It’s a fundraiser. We all go. In the auditorium we’re waiting for the first plane. The woman…

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Distress

You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,”…

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Experiment

I’m 7’3″ so bartender draws a bead on me right when I stoop through the door, and it’s a sweltering wade through the stares and…

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Traditional Northern Sports

we bang sticks our legs run long distances bang against each other are covered in sweat soil sometimes ice there are nets where released balls…

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Puncture

Bo had been listening, waiting for the mutts to retrieve the duck, like they always did. It’d been shot in the wing—Bo knew from the…

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