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After A Miscarriage | Savannah O'Toole Renehan
He doesn’t rotate the produce. After hauling the crates from the loading dock, he unloads new spuds onto last week’s potatoes. Unripe...
Dec 52 min read
Lei-Making in Kansas | Amy Haddad | Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner - Fall 2024
Three generations of the women in my family sit on the spacious front porch, pouring over souvenirs...
Dec 52 min read
requiem for a gone girl | Kelsey Smoot | Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner - Fall 2024
I’ ve kissed at least one dead girl that I know of. I look back and realize she was maybe only barely alive when we kissed. Tawny girl,...
Dec 51 min read
Reparations I’ll Pay Piecemeal Until Death | Elly Katz | Poetry Contest 3rd Place Winner - Fall 2024
I converse with nobody all the time, a liminal voice singing. But I write to complete discourse between lines. I owe them that— for...
Nov 186 min read
Cornflower Blue | Valerie Anne Burns
While my mother was still alive, we’d moved to a brand-new home in one of those strangely uniformed suburbs in South Miami. Because blue...
Nov 156 min read
Bloody Lamb | Sofía Amorós
After two hectic weeks in the office, Inés Martínez’s father managed to spare an entire weekend to spend time with her. Four months...
Oct 197 min read
Wednesday Night at the Hotel in Kyoto | Jordan Holman | Fiction & Nonfiction Contest Winner - Summer 2024
On a Wednesday night at the hotel in Kyoto, an old woman approaches me in the public onsen and sings to me with sweetness in her voice. ...
Sep 301 min read
San Diego 2007 | Star Jalanugraha
I find us, always rolling down that grassy hill at grandma’s. Knees stained green, itchy as hell. Blotchy, burnt faces echoing hues of...
Sep 274 min read
Girl Crush | Lisa W. Nagel
The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. --William Faulkner “Science” says that your cerebral cortex, the frontal lobes of...
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