Poetry, Volume X
The Art Journal I Kept Back When I Loved Jesus
A Very Long Party In Green, Li Anne Liew Lives in a clear plastic bin below my childhood bed, neighbors with decades-old stuffed teddies and virgin candles gifted to me for…
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Poetry, Volume X117 Million
Monochrome, Emma Lassiter Anyways, I’ve been thinking about going for a swim. I have been researching lakes and bodies of water. I am uncompromising and precise in my analysis of them…
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Nonfiction, Volume XQuarantime
How to Survive a Pandemic, Ashley Webster A guided house tour: spring break, March 13-21, 2020, Prospect Heights, IL. FRENCH WINDOWS In the mornings I sit in an armchair in…
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Poetry, Volume XThe Heart Braid
A Slow Decay, Ashley Webster My substitute mom massaged her threading hands As substitute dad typed religiously on his Blackberry She claimed I was finally ready for my soccer game and…
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Poetry, Volume XThe Austrian Alps
Whispers, Emily Bryn Author’s note: In CMSCI 449: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, students were assigned to write a natural language processing program that would generate commencement speeches. The result was authentic…
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Poetry, Volume XSBF, or Why I am No Longer Discussing Sex With Straight People
2, Julia Broeker my ex-best friend told me her boyfriend ate her pussy, but it’s okay;, she’s still a virgin. but oh i forgot, i guess that’s all sex is…
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Fiction, Volume XTHE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD
Winter Afternoon, Evan McGrew Part Three (continued from The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord, Part Two) TW/SA, mentions of suicide Astrid has not stopped thinking about what Eira fears. Whenever Eira has a…
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Poetry, Volume XWall Street et. al.
The Complexity of Detail, Olivia Offutt Oh America, you bad bitch I picked the cotton that made you rich -Kendrick Lamar, “For Free? (Interlude)” i. new York was once new…
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Poetry, Volume Xjust not you
Livelihood, Liza Ashley I didn’t see anything at first but I felt every bump and crack of the dirt road, the sudden jolt and sharp turn of the wheel as…
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Fiction, Volume XEdgar Edgarson
Fever Dream, Emily Bryn Edgar Edgarson wore a Victorian overcoat to school, and when I mentioned this to him, he did not hear me. We walked along the hallway together, his…
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Nonfiction, Volume XThe Storm Chaser Within
Lettuce Hug, Christina Guzman She was a flying fist of fury hurling hate, that faint tinge of red flaring beneath the yellow flesh of olive skin. A stark contrast of her…
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Poetry, Volume XLately I’ve Been Running Out of Words for Falling
Phoenicopteridae Urbana, Jaxon Ke’anoi Bonsack lately, i’ve been meeting my supposed-to-be-stranger on city streets, looking for him on the edges of days and finding him in familiar hallways. but when…
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Nonfiction, Volume X
Jasper
A Slow Decay, Ashley Webster I come across her near the water. She is sitting on top of a picnic bench, her slippers and a couple cans of Monaco strewn beside…
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Fiction, Volume XTHE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD
ano nakikita Mo?, harana Part Two (continued from The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord, Part One) TW/SA After two weeks of not seeing him, Astrid sees him in the…