Volume 6 Number 1

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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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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