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Briana Loveall

Stitched   I am twenty-seven and my aunt is thirty-one when she dies. My father calls to tell me. He says, voice flat, that his sister...

Jeff Newberry

Mosaic   i.   In the Stag Hunt Mosaic, nude hunters pull the prey down. A wild-eyed dog tears at the deer’s side, while one hunter raises an...

Elizabeth Wade

sweet: 4.1 The Gift Elizabeth Wade We did not feel celebratory, but Mother insisted on presents. My husband and I had planned to spend the holiday states away...

Sara Dovre Wudali

Lake Effect The smell at Lake Mary mixes sea weed and walleye and Coppertone coconut. My husband, a transplant from India, ambles out to the...

Jeff Newberry

Failure is an Art i.   My father tried to be a cartoonist. Growing up, I’d find correspondence-school books filled with figures and illustrations, works to imitate....

Jody Kennedy

Ruger Single-Six 1. If I Can't Have You, Nobody Can My father bought a Ruger Single-Six revolver and begin to contemplate suicide shortly after I was...

Helen Pruitt Wallace

Boing My mother was the cool mom on the block. Until the early ‘70s, my parents, three siblings, and I lived in a neighborhood called...

Jacqueline Doyle

Little Colored Pills “She was a painting by Matisse, but she took sleeping pills.” - Carole Maso, The Art Lover   I I have forgotten so much. Is it...

Elise F. Ritter

Code Green The Illinois air is much kinder than Louisiana’s: cooler, less sticky. I think maybe I should let myself at least enjoy the outdoors...

Jacqueline Doyle

Little Colored Pills “She was a painting by Matisse, but she took sleeping pills.” Carole Maso, The Art Lover   I   I have forgotten so much. Is it the...

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