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issue 13.1

Sweet Connections: KT Herr

Several times a month we connect with our contributors showing where they have been, where they are now, and what’s up for the future. Name:...

Laura Merleau

Down the hall a constant Down the hall a constantdrilling whirs all day rightup to six pm the dust ofplaster being drilled thenknocked off the...

Michele Sharpe

Ones & Zeroes The doe’s belly ripples, then a placental hoof or kneepokes her skin from inside out. She watches me watch her,  browsing for a...

Jessica Hudson

Dear Belle From you I know | all blue dresses are wishes for yellow gowns that twirl in captive arcs | a mezzo-soprano’s gasp can sweep the...

Meredith Davies Hadaway

Lift I’m losing my edge—the doctor says my spine is disappearing  from the inside out. I’m not surprised. Lately  I feel less and less between my  rib and the kingfisher at the...

Lindsay Hutton

Anthem If we could turn back time, if we could find a way back to those heady months in 2015 and give all the stars...

S. Isabel Choi

A Near Miss Wally was the first to kiss me. Inside a roller rink in New Jersey, let’s say 1988, I sailed around curved corners...

Nikki Lyssy

Swimming The locker room smells like chlorine and perfume and sweat. While I wait with the other 12-to-13-year-olds, it is all I can do to...

Megan Baxter

On Pulling White Hairs In the mirror, my eyes wear from searching silver out from the darkness. When I catch myself in the pupil, I...

Sayantani Dasgupta

On a Sunday Afternoon in Italy Shower. Pack your laptop, your writing notebook. Don’t forget sunglasses. Nor the handkerchief. They’ll embolden you to leave the...

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