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You’ve pocketed twenty canciones in the San Miguel morning, walking the cobbled streets. Wonder how they did this to the poets; sliced off hands to…
Here (view piece), Todd Dillard has created a story that uses the foreign language of a country to illustrate the traveler’s ignorance. We can see…
We’re in bed again and you’re peeling a kiwi with your fingers. Get a knife, I say. It’s only a suggestion. I’m always telling you…
Meagear’s piece (view here) recounts an experience that both characters participated in, using second person as if the speaker were narrating it to the other…
Officials multiply in number while the rest of us dwindle. You can see the signs even in the retail district, where shops that once sold…
Muratori’s speaker (view here) has almost no authority in his life; his ideas remain largely unacknowledged or ignored. It’s somewhat ironic, then, that he is…
Meyers’s piece (view here) presents a character—Mr. Ragman—who is entirely figment. Readers do not get his actual name, his actual age, or any concrete details…
The consensus of the women in Mrs. Proppe’s kitchen was that the Ragman was 90. Mrs. Torto thought 100 because in the bible, what, don’t…
Simonsen’s piece (view here) proceeds as a triptych, three disparate sections that inform one another while remaining distinct. The first two connect thematically through the…
The first slumber party in Angie Bushnell’s unfinished basement I’m light as a feather, afraid I am too fat but stiff as a board, light…