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Jill Talbot

Drown I don’t remember the name of that liquor store in Wichita, the one I drove to every few days. I do remember the asphalt...

Jennifer Gravley

Slice after Slice A month before my mother will never eat again, she has the surgery—the cancer sliced off her tongue, slice after slice, until...

Laurie Rachkus Uttich

Bereft (Of) You stood at the shore sobbing, a young man maybe twenty, your shoulders shaking as you bent at the waist. I saw you...

Amy Yelin

Collaborators Her hand is on my arm. It’s not a light touch, but more a gentle grip, a weight upon the area just above my...

Joey Franklin

Cool Enough, For the Moment It was the spring of my senior year in high school, and my friends and I were so desperately cool...

Saffron Marchant

False Alarm Midtown, Manhattan, September 12, 2001  Floor 31 I’m going to die now, aren’t I? I’m going to die right here, amongst strangers. “There are reports of a...

Melissa Matthewson

Draw Two Circles, So Joined In a boy’s hands, a trumpet, played to the open window at an hour of seven. I can’t tell you...

Karen Craigo

How to Kill a Mouse The cat emerges from beneath the couch, between my feet, with a mouse in his teeth. It is his fourth...

William Bradley

Cathode Sometimes, my memory is like an old television set, turned on after the show has started.  The screen takes a few minutes to warm...

David Macey

Drinking the OED I lose some days to the dictionary. On these blessed, dangerous days, I wake up late, and, post coffee and breakfast burrito,...

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