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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...

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...

Brent Fisk

Solving for X I have never been good at math, but am an ace at miscalculation. Lightning illuminated the tops of the maples and mulberries along...

Lorri McDole

Family Polynomials 1. How We Get Up The world can be divided into two types of people: those who brush their teeth before their morning coffee...

Joey Chin

For the Love of Loss (and Vice Versa) 10. Many months after my ex-boyfriend died, I dream of him. “Are you still making music?” I ask.   Not...

Nicola Koh

Kiss It began with a kiss, in a hotel-suite living-room that was my makeshift bedroom, a thin sliding door separating me from the bedroom where...

Patrick Madden

Aborted Essay on Plums What abortions are these Essays! What errors, what ill-pieced transitions, what crooked reasons, what lame conclusions! How little is made out,...

Andrew Bertaina

Blackberries After graduate school, I threw away nearly everything I’d written, certain that I’d moved on. Now that some years have passed, I’ll spend forty...

Will McMillan

Exploded “So we put all these unused explosives into a pile…” my brother Chris whispers to me, and I recognize his tone at once. It’s...

Vanya Erickson

Remembering The scream was a deep, miserable thing that flew out of my mouth, gushing into the room like rusty water bursting from a pipe....

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