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Carolyn Alessio

Tomorrow Times 3 Mensa means idiot in Mexican Spanish, an irony I learned from 28 sets of laughing, bilingual lips. My sophomore students would soon...

Sarah Scott 

Cooking Salmon for Your Lover Shiver with a flutter of anticipation, or is it dread, that your lover is coming to dinner. Your lover who...

Laura Johnsrude 

Brown Barrette in My Hair Maybe I imagined it, that in-ground pool beside the red dirt ball field. The pool, painted Carolina blue with a...

Robert Barham

Trying to Convince Poison Control You’re a Good Parent You try to sound calm—but not too calm. When they ask your daughter’s weight, you sound knowledgeable,...

Cheryl Graham

God is Wind I dreamed I was at a party with a group of people from my high school, though because it was a dream...

James P Blaylock

Monsters and Dust Some forty years ago, give or take, I was thinking about salt, Morton’s salt in particular. It occurred to me in a...

Heidi Czerwiec

Fragmentation Grenade: The Violence of Hybridity With thanks to Nomi Stone Nomi and I come together on hybridity — a form, a site, where disparate elements...

Kaitlyn Teer

In the Season of Little Things In the season of little things, my daughter learns to say bee. There are seventeen ladybugs in a board book....

Melissa Matthewson

Particles: A Love Story The theoretical physicist John Bell found that we can’t tear entangled photons apart. Even in region and space, particles can be...

Susan Moldaw

The Accidental Pilgrim Day one of my synagogue’s Jewish heritage tour and we trudge through Kazimierz, which was until WWII Krakow’s vibrant Jewish quarter. The...

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