Category Archives: 2023
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In Leaping
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by Mandira Pattnaik Sometimes, standing before the mirror, Leia would say she felt like a grasshopper. Say this to …
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How to Deadhead Hydrangea
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by Elizabeth Schmermund Prune only after the rich blooms have paraded under your window and then have turned paper-thin, …
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A Fucking Steal
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by Chelsea Stickle On nights when the haunting is extreme, Ramona slips into my bed like she was always …
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One For Your Mother
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by Annie Marhefka On Sundays, we clean, my mother and I, while the boys do yard work with our …
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Girls
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by Hallie Johnston December 31, 2004. Parking lot. Fiesta Bowl Stadium in Phoenix, Arizona. Minutes before the Fiesta Bowl …
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On Landing
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by Sujash Purna Sweltering Sylheti air isn’t helping enough with the sticky shirt on my back. I can’t grow …
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Goldmouth
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by Cameron Green We grew up learning to lie—to strangers, each other, our mothers’ faces. We grew up laughing and …
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Ceiling Fan Blues
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by J.B. Stone The Mojave desert sandstorms into your bedroom. Saguaro cacti sprout their prickly bodies into the walls, their …
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Oh, I Don’t Know, Maybe He Entered Grandmother’s Cottage Because
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by Kim Steutermann Rogers 1. They bulldozed his home, taking old-growth trees that sheltered him while he slept.2. They …
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