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Rosemary Jones

The Girl in Me A cold and bitter Friday in January. Almost midday. I push at the black iron gate, cross the flagstones, and step...
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Kristin Ito

Sideways Branches 1986 I’m in preschool at a small Baptist church in southern California, and my teacher looks just like me. Mrs. Fujimoto is Japanese, and...
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Aspen Stoddard

Home When you say home, do you mean rain-shadow desert? Arid orange valleys threaded with shallow streams, sand packed hard as concrete, encircled with mountains,...
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Lee Ann Roripaugh

Notes on the Shame Spiral Fool me once, shame on you / fool me twice, shame on me. How many centuries did it take birds to...
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Leslie Jill Patterson

Running Every morning, even in winter, she stole from her husband’s bed at 6 am. It took fifteen absurd minutes to slip one arm at...
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J.R. Lara

Growing Oranges in Oaxaca It was the year he planted the orange tree            that my father         Alejandro              told me his story of tipping off...
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Jill Brady

Think Fist My father’s hearing aid released a high-pitched whistle. We responded by stopping and checking our surroundings. We all heard it except my dad,...
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Lisa Laughlin

Kindling The summer I moved back to Ephrata, nearly all of Washington State caught on fire. On the east side, there had been even less...
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Jenna Lyles

Kumquat I remember my mother’s womb. It comes to me in a reoccurring dream I first mistake for another tryst with comatose surrealism. Indeed, my...
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Melanie McCabe

The Secret She Knows – Or Does Not My sister and I learned early the power of clandestine knowledge. Of stealth. Of the story no...
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