Category: Online Issue Pieces

Sometimes the Going

Leigh Claire Schmidli It’s not often the case, but we’re all hungry for dinner about the same time that night. Me and Anka, my landlady. Her fat-cat Bazo. We collide in the tiny kitchen, circling...

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Inheritance

Rebecca Faulkner I am trying to remember —  corners of your newspaper curled  in a November breeze, mothballs  in your herringbone tweed. Stubborn  grief, my coat pulled tight....

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No Wolves in the Woods

Jared Povanda When your sister married Charlie, you wanted to punch him. Do you remember the weight of my arms around your middle? That ficus in the huge terracotta pot scratching our faces? The hall...

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French Sardines

Rosa Lane After Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!” (249)              French sardines arrive from Boston, tin- plated. Maggie levers her can...

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Home is a Holiday

Mohamed Morshed Mustafa emerged from the tunnel that led him out of the airplane and stepped into the airport. There were numerous lines of people facing glass booths; he joined the shortest line,...

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How I love this world

Gretchen Filart           after Mary Oliver’s In Blackwater Woods I love this world  as I do my daughter at bedtime – skinned knees from sprinting  before she...

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Uee Jung

“Portrait with Green Background” “Still with Bottles”...

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Bānbishn

“Stoning to Death” BĀNBISHN was the Middle Persian title of the Sasanian Queens of Iran. The full version of the title was bānbishnān bānbishn (“Queen of Queens”). She believes...

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Sarah-Jane Crowson

“The Other Clouds” Sarah-Jane Crowson SARAH JANE CROWSON’s work is inspired by fairytales, nature, psychogeography, and surrealism. She uses bricolage to explore the space between real...

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María DeGuzmán

“Sorollan Improv” María DeGuzmán MARÍA DEGUZMÁN is a scholar, photographer, writer, and music composer. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art...

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