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Stephanie Anderson

Flight Animals I hear her crying behind the closed door—my mother, maybe on the floor, having wet herself, or maybe in the bed, can’t pull...

Amber Rogers

Coiled You reached out your hand to help me across a flooded creek, and I hesitated before I took it. Electric green beetles glinted in...

Lisa Laughlin

A Sort of Trespass The brush we’re walking through doesn’t belong to us. Technically, it’s rooted on a plot owned by the cattleman who makes...

Jill Kolongowski

Drought, Tuesday afternoon I know I shouldn’t, but I’ve started watching the neighbors. From the kitchen window of our second-floor apartment I can see down...

Greer Gurland

Waffles So I am driving my kids around, somewhere between after-school activity twenty-six and twenty-seven. Ian, Russell, and Sophie are in the back. Nathaniel managed...

Karin Killian

Once, A Moon Smack in the middle of the tenderest flesh of my abdomen sits a faded blue crescent moon, embracing my navel—my first tattoo....

Lee Gulyas and Brenda Miller

Golden Angle - a collaborative essay   Lemons Lemon curd, lemon meringue pie, lemon tarts, limoncello, lemon financiers, preserved lemons for Moroccan food, lemons grilled with salmon. I...

Katrina Vandenberg

Mandala I first learned my blood type in an emergency room in Western Massachusetts. At the time it seemed a bit of blood humor: Be...

Sarah Kahn

The Year I leaned my chair back at that restaurant, talking to him behind the back of the boy between us. We thought we were...

Paul Haney

Downriver Upstate New York. A bucolic Rochester suburb. A river running past splintered churches and long-abandoned watermills, alongside Main Street and over the falls. Downstream...

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