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All About the Kid Lit, by Lisa Cain
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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Sep 1, 20212 min read
Leave a Message, by Thanh Dinh
When you say it like that, you make it so believable, I say. I can still remember the scenery. The sky is blue, the sunlight passes...
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Aug 27, 20212 min read
A Library’s Home, by McKenzie Heileman
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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Jul 21, 20214 min read
Weather Story, by Kim Horner
On Aug. 8, 2011, the temperature in Dallas was expected to soar above 100 for the 37th day in a row. The big question was whether we...
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Jul 14, 20212 min read
Tides Rise, by Kelsey Flynn
Tides rise and walls fall A system built to keep muddy water from collapsing white walls Infrastructure made to keep fish in their barrel...
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Jun 30, 20213 min read
The Little Mermaid, by Cezarija Abartis
He did not expect the heartache of his life to lead to this bar and this barstool and this mermaid on Halloween. She pushed the green...
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Jun 23, 20211 min read
Fight Scene, by Jessica Sabo
Baby ballerinas skipped to Tchaikovsky, fine threads of hair crowning their heads and my hair, so tightly pulled into a knot my forehead...
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Jun 16, 20211 min read
Swamp Monster, by Emily Rozitis
At the very bottom of my bathtub, there is a space for the darkness. It exists for the dark ...
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Jun 15, 20211 min read
Congrats Helena Rho!
We just heard wonderful news about recent 805 contributor Helena Rho. Her memoir, American Seoul, is forthcoming with Little A, Amazon's...
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May 26, 20211 min read
Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen
What is the landscape of my life these days? Mudflat sounds about right—the mud part and the flat part, messy, shoe-sucking,...
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Apr 21, 20211 min read
Bruised Mother, by Ashley Kirkland
topless in the grey light of the master bath, accompanied by store-bought seashells and soaps, a painting of dune grass, remember how we...
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Apr 14, 20212 min read
Asian American Translations, by Molly Zhu
I only know Power from the other side of my mother’s eyes when she asks me, what does it mean, my only job is to dress the slur in...
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Apr 7, 20214 min read
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 15, 20212 min read
Leave me, by Zainab Batool
If your pain could speak to you, it would say "leave me" You've been taking me all along Carrying the ache in your hands. Halt your steps...
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Mar 10, 20212 min read
I am Fermenting, by Ellen Gwin
In my bitter sixteens I tasted like sweet, succulent blackberries. As dark as I presented myself, my skin oozed red sap onto anyone with...
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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 3, 20212 min read
Boy Lazarus, by Taylor Leigh Harper
Tell me who raised you again, dusted dirt off your saffron-soured bones? After your resurrection, you smelled of peat moss, dirty socks,...
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