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Sara Dovre Wudali

Lake Effect The smell at Lake Mary mixes sea weed and walleye and Coppertone coconut. My husband, a transplant from India, ambles out to the...

Kathleen McGookey

Contradiction No, not every story is about the body. Take this one: my father dies. The sky and earth, even the field corn in...

Helen Marie Casey

Aviator You make funny faces at the camera, clown-like boyin flannel pajamas, a red toy car in your hands, maybeeight years old and, for the...

Diane Joy Schmidt

Instructions for How To Be Popular in Seventh Grade Don’t go out on a date Don’t go out on a date with Hal Picardi Don’t call up...

Diane Joy Schmidt

Spider I got to Flagstaff before noon. It was 108 even at 7,000 feet. I would wait to cross the desert after dark and went...

Nathan Holic

Postures     Nathan Holic is the author of the forthcoming novel Bright Lights, Medium-Sized City, a book that drifts between text, watercolor paintings, and comics pages....

Jen Karetnick

It’s about the dog, but not really about the dog,  which is why I continue to cry at odd momentspopping up in my day like...

Jeff Newberry

Failure is an Art i.   My father tried to be a cartoonist. Growing up, I’d find correspondence-school books filled with figures and illustrations, works to imitate....

Jody Kennedy

Ruger Single-Six 1. If I Can't Have You, Nobody Can My father bought a Ruger Single-Six revolver and begin to contemplate suicide shortly after I was...

Helen Pruitt Wallace

Boing My mother was the cool mom on the block. Until the early ‘70s, my parents, three siblings, and I lived in a neighborhood called...

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