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Volume 18

Rais Tuluka

Mile Marker of the Self The nature of his drift was velvet and terminal; he was easy to miss, like a low star in daylight over Kansas. September,...

Shannon Rayne

King Of Sticks Benji is seven, gap-toothed, and has the energy of a birthday sparkler. He sits so close to the camera that when he...

Elizabeth Ohga

Home Bodies At the traffic light next to the pink brick wall, my kids stir from sleep. It’s been a long trip for their four-...

Alison Amato

Take me home I. The Patapsco is calm,    steady  the way  one might be in a crisis. The skyline glints   and flickers, lighting up like the inside...

MICHAEL CHANG

BAKE SALE ‘is it done?’ the mother texts the shoplifter who happens to be her daughter smelling of pot roast & filetto ai tre pepi w/ buzzards circling overhead u...

Cheryl Sadowski

Seduction Do you know any place that serves Mexican hot chocolate? I ask the driver. My girlfriends and I sit squished like marshmallows inside an Uber...

Ella Shively

American Soldier Baby My high school friend has changedher profile picture. Newborn son, swaddled in husband’s Army jacket.Small toes protruding like mushrooms. Caption: baby Brennan, reportingfor duty!...

Cal Freeman

A Rotary Phone It’s strange to buy machinerythat will last longer than you live, discomfiting. Your mother has a chairlift that takes her fromthe living room to...

Joshua Zeitler

 Origin Story with Phantom Limb   after K. Iver The woman in me begins in recurring. Dreams. I am a young girl. Running in an open field. From a...

Marina Hatsopoulos

Seeing Through Ice Husbands have never been part of our Halloween tradition, so it’s normal for me to be heading to the party without Walter,...

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