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Half-lives of empathy

Somi Jun 2024 Nonfiction Spring Contest Runner Up We are given the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. The teacher reads the story aloud to us, chapter by chapter, on the floor of a large...

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Young Woman

Melissa McEver Huckabay I made her out of confetti and spackle,      sawdust, plaster of Paris, blood. Added magazine strips with cut-out words: Willowy. Bright. Christ-like. Glued...

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Katy Stewart

“Cahoots” Analogue collage on paper “Nurture” Collage on paper “Volcanic Pipeline” Collage on paper Katy Stewart is an analogue collage artist and experimental...

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Hanged/drawn/quartered, or, imagining my great-grandmothers’ hands on a Sunday morning, in four parts

jade guthrie I. Sybil (Sue-Ho) My great-grandmother Sybil hands each of her children £2 and watches them skip down the road, newly armed with the pocket money to spend on sweets and comic books to...

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The Origin of a Simple Rhythm

Prosper C. Ìféányí I am in need of so many simple wants.      The fire gnawing the wood.  This body reddening after it has known           Dark...

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Kelly DuMar

“October Brook Abstract 3.5” Digital Photography Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and...

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Peyton Fultz

“Wealth in Excess” Acrylic “Temptation” Acrylic “Prism” Acrylic Peyton Fultz is a Maryland-based acrylic painter known for her vibrant and textured works of art....

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As Demeter

Stefanie Kirby A daughter pops arils into floral stains. Elsewhere: leftover  pips solid as teeth, fruit lips  curled back in decay. A mouth  packed with loss. To be this apathy of...

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All the Dust Falling

Abigail Ham 2023 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner  I Fight and flight are the typical human reactions to threat, but they’re not the only possibilities. Children in general can’t fight or...

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Parrot

Maeve Barry 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Janet lies in the bathtub with the phone shouldered to her ear. In a long lace dress with its back zipper open. It sags off her chest. She sits in her...

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