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Your Mouth Gets Well

Lane Stanley Michael Content Warning: This story discusses the following sensitive topics: substance abuse and early recovery.   We walk every morning at sunrise—not all of us, but enough to know...

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Nuala McEvoy

“Old Fishmarket Street”Acrylics and acrylic pens on canvas “View From the Attic”Skylight Acrylics and acrylic pens on canvas “Leaving the Giant Chicken Spaceship in the...

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protostar

jael jean I was inside of my mind the other day. Saw my late father smack Sawyer upside the head. Saw my older brother retreat further behind his ribcage. There were times that he bared it—cleaved...

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Dios le pague

Anna María del Pilar Suben Corto, calvo, tuco. En San Salvador era mecánico; trabajaba en tornos. Eso decía su cédula de los 70s. No sabe su nombre. Dice que lo olvida.1 I read him his name from...

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Unsolicited Malady

Danielle Bradley Patricia was waiting to hear if her kidney stone was large enough to be surgically removed. It was the first thing, the kidney stone being too big to safely pass through her urethra,...

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Hulk Princess Birthday Party

Sharon S.Y. Lee The birthday party has reached its frenzied apex and hurtles towards the cake cutting finale, but Sarah wishes that she could rewind time—before she set the party budget, before she...

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The Venus of Oklahoma City

Leah Mullen Our grandmothers used to speak to the Old Goddesses—those like dimpled dough, eyeless and petrified. But our grandmothers had had options. And our goddess had had enough of voluptuous...

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The Worst Portland in America

Jordan Hamel Fraternal twin rivers womb the memorial plaza. A town in utero, pet food cannery,  chapel of ease, hockey rink,  camping store. We carried  folding chairs to the oxbow  behind the...

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Everyone is Going to Tomorrow

James Gianetti My parents struggle to tell me something while we have Christmas dinner. They avoid it between cleared throats, sips of wine, and futile conversation about inflation and how warm it is...

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Briana Gervat

Under a Rising Tide Digital photography No Further North Digital photography Briana Gervat is a poet, photographer, and art historian. She is the author of two travel memoirs: Mosaic and I Once Was a...

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