Volume 4 Number 1

Everyone Expects Me to Visit

Half an apple wrapped in foil, peanut butter stuck to the wrong thing. The other half is somewhere else. Not a sibling’s lunch. Not my…

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Heirlooms

She sent the box of silver and all my baby pictures with no explanation. It runs in the family; her grandmother used to take me…

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Why I Love of Angelina

On the island where I grew up, all the women look like Angelina Jolie. The women like to call themselves Angelina in honor of the…

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This is My Hospital Bed

I want to be so famous people think of me while they eat their breakfasts. There I am in your Count Chocula, between the raisins…

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Creation Stories

When they cut flesh again and again sometimes the muscle buckles, like how metal can only be soddered so many times before it’s just sodder…

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Creston

I did not see the moonwashed lake behind our trailer or the yellow finch in the avocado tree. I did not see the fire, the…

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A Mythic Encrusting

Ought-to-live could be walking down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, dressed in chinoiserie and weighed down in Roberto Cavalli and Louis Vuitton. Those could be pirated…

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