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Carousel, by Megan Hayes
Growing feels a lot more like incessantly turning, wondering which memory from your past will take a new form in the future. Feel the...
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Mar 31, 20212 min read
The Queen’s Eyes, by Kim Allouche
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a lovely, young queen with black locks who lived high up in a castle with an angry,...
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Mar 24, 20214 min read
On Tuesday, by Sudeepta Sanyal
Shanti rolls the loose end of the sari and ties it tightly around her waist. She sits down on the inverted tin and dusts the stone on...
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Mar 3, 20212 min read
Manzhouli: Self-portrait of a City, by Tara Manshon
A favorite pastime of Manzhoulians is to collect broken and discarded items. Homes are often decorated with the unwanted and it is not...
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Feb 17, 20214 min read
Silence, by Ellie Benesch
As we sit on the couch, I look out at the gray sky. It’s almost charcoal, with lighter strokes here and there. I hear the thunder growl,...
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Feb 10, 20216 min read
She Sets the Sun, by Benjamin Kling
There’s a clearing by the waterfall where the trees don’t stand because they’re afraid to be alone. They huddle together like freshmen on...
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Jan 20, 20215 min read
Man Eater, by Melissa Kerman
Umberto’s cooks the juiciest veal cutlet in the entire city. You know this because you’ve eaten veal cutlet at every Italian restaurant...
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Jan 13, 20213 min read
Identity Thief, by Ronna Whitehead
You ripped us from Mother’s arms, and Father tried to fight you. He didn’t have a gun, and your team had many. Uniformed men forced us...
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Dec 9, 20206 min read
Set Fire, by Melissa Darcey
It starts with a first kiss kind of flush you see in the movies. A tingling vibration in your fingers and toes. It expands into a warmth...
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Dec 3, 20203 min read
Naj’wa (Say in a Whisper), by Menat Allah El Attma
Here, hope lays in dirt and often gets caught in between toes belonging to small bare feet running on hot sandy cobblestones. These feet...
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Nov 4, 20202 min read
Jerusalem, by Natalie Woociker
I followed the back of your white t-shirt through the Old City that afternoon in early November, past ancient tunnels of brick and stone,...
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Oct 30, 20205 min read
Story Witch, by Emilie Anding
There’s a ghost that lives in the medicine cabinet. He’s not too obvious, of course, but he is mean. You’ll find a pinprick of blood...
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