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Rima Rantisi

There’s a Man Dying Next Door A man is dying next door. I know him. He owns the building I live in, and the building...

Caitlin Scarano

Did You Hear the One About the Man Who Killed the World’s Tallest Tree? This morning I walk with my dog along the river. It...

Wendy Bilen

Love Toilet Driving through central Virginia last summer, I passed an ice-blue porta-potty on which someone had spray-painted I LOVE YOU DEBRA. I laughed. Poor...

Emily Brisse

To Be Held The earth beneath my feet is soft, like a belly, I think, like a mother. I step down upon it quickly, down...

Andrew Bertaina

Winter in Washington, DC In the evening, while the children were asleep, my wife and I texted about the difficulties of life—doctor’s bills, the election,...

John Julius Reel

The Foreigner’s Neighbors The foreigner, recently moved into his girlfriend’s apartment, felt fortunate to be able to look down at the park in front, although...

Marlena Maduro Baraf

The Diner It’s a sliver of a diner in a white American suburb: metal and cracked granite, red leatherette stools, three large fans in constant...

Joshua Bernstein

Lost In The Fog Toward the end of Terrence Malick’s epic film The Thin Red Line (1998), which is adapted from James Jones’s 1962 novel...

Rich Furman

Return A fisherman saves a penguin from rotting oil, cleans him up, heals him. The penguin, instead of returning to the sea, stays with the...

Meghan O’Dea

Downstream in Highland Park My mother’s eyes glistened wetly at us for months after Benny came to Chattanooga. Winter is cold and wet in Tennessee,...

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