Eating You

I didn’t start out trying to eat you, but I wasn’t exactly surprised when it happened. And now that I’ve eaten you, I feel something…

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Scarecrow

1. Sister and I built you out of spare parts. An ironing board for your torso, a plunger for one arm, a broomstick for the…

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Old Voices

There is a dead boy down in the wet basement. He has been there so long he is just particles in the stagnant water. “You…

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The New Kids

These were rowdy and ill-behaved children, and we didn’t belong here, Sissy and I decided. I was holding my breath and clutching an old greeting…

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House of Stars

Daddy and the other men from the neighborhood came splash- ing down the creek toward our house, Daddy carrying Sissy in his arms and she…

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Exposure

When I visit Christine, she shows me her braid. French, nouveau for the time, her mother’s work. We talk for a while. She calls her…

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The Rust Belt

She was tired of people asking where she’s from. It was a question, she’d decided, that was both too strange and too familiar. There were…

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Lost Luster

Your mom asks you to latch eye and hook around her neck. A string of little white moons rests against her breasts. Luna. Eclipse. Breathe—…

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The Gravity

When the gravity went, I rushed to the bedroom, I leapt from the doorway and reached for her hand, reached as the picture frames lifted…

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VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2

VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 Michael Alessi, Piyali Bhattacharya, Chelsea Biondolillo, Chelsea Margaret Bodnar, Wyatt Bonikowski, Jean-Luc Bouchard, Justin Brouckaert, Michael Credico, Mark Gabriel Dee, Matthew…

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