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VOLUME I
Bookshelves, Boxes
Rocks, Sara Sisun I’ve done enough packing to know that some things are easier to pack than others. Like books. I always pack my entire bookshelf in watery-brown, foursquare boxes,…
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VOLUME I
The City That Care Forgot
Kangding Cigarette Man, Jeremy Nelson New Orleans: blues crackin’, hip swinging, finger-sucking, muckraking, turn the body into a song hot sweaty push you up against a wall humidity breathing onto…
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VOLUME I
The Rejection of the Regionalists
Plaid Sweater (1931) and Cape Coat (1982) by Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth In Andrew Wyeth’s winter landscapes, Pennsylvania seems to groom itself with a cold gray tongue. Down it sweeps, over wide…
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VOLUME I
How to Smoke a Cigarette
Couch, Mirra Schwartz Stay up until five in the morning, having your heart broken from nine time zones away. Discover new and exciting forms of pain. Feel like you’ve had…
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VOLUME I
Double-Wedding Ring
Xinnian Kuaile, Patrick Depuydt [Trigger Warning: Depictions Of Mild Gore] Don’t ask me nothing about nothing, I might just tell you the truth.Remember how they took her bloody clothes out of…
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VOLUME I
The Bones That Build Your Back
Chapel in Winter, Jenny Brum In maps, I look for you, In myth, in frames, but mirrors— I can watch you quietly, a subtle glance, then wayward fall against…
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VOLUME I
Hikage no Hana
Bridge, Cory Gans Some years past, her hair, cold like ice, soft like feathers, brushed past my poor hand. About the Author Daniel Chevalier, California State…
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VOLUME I
Catching the Eclipse
Untitled, Mae Ryan He talks of Relativity but half of Freundlich’s team is taken prisoner. The rest of us are left to gaze at the gray, condensing lid descending;…
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VOLUME I
Phantasmagoria
It’s The Simple Things, Allison McKenzie Again the squid that swallows light has no shadow. It flickers in and out of sight in the inexorably slow click of a…
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VOLUME I
Brittany Road
From a Lighthouse, Zach Russo [Trigger Warning: Child Death Mention/Death Mention] Her little house smells like sulfur. Inside, it glows yellow, a combination of southern sun and outdated light fixtures. Her…
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VOLUME I
Anne is Elvis
Trail of Shoes, Tina Horton The rehearsal dinner is at the Red Top Restaurant. We sit at three tables they had pushed together. Each place already has an ice…
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VOLUME I
Ghosts of Little Girls
Untitled, Tess Vinnedge Trigger Warning: Depictions of Sexual Coercion of a Minor/Sexual Assault; Fatphobia] My sister stands in the backyard and looks at the bleach-blonde sky of the morning with her…
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VOLUME I
How Things Work
Nothing’s Gonna Happen Without Warning, Chris Winterbauer Last night Fausto broke open a light bulb at home to see its innards. He held the precious thing by its screwy…
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VOLUME I
Year Six, Month Seven, Day Twenty-Four
Troy, Eyla Cuenca I dream of the desert often. I have never been to a desert before. The one in my dream is flat and purely tan. There is nothing…