you did your duty

Majida Halaweh to you who look at me with pity in your eyes: i know your love for me makes you ask how i am but it does not extend beyond that.   i know you sit around lamenting my...

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zero

Nadine Channaoui just like that thirty-five thousand gone demolished killed starved diseased   one thousand for each year i have circled the sun another thousand for the circle my daughter has made...

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Issue 53. 2 is here!

Dear readers, Welcome! Our team is thrilled to share our Spring 2024 Contest issue with you. This is my third year as a member of phoebe — I first joined as a fiction reader, then as Managing...

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53.2

2024 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Idaho Wolves by Kath Richards 2024 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner The Lyric Ear by Megan J. Arlett 2024 Spring Poetry Contest Winner self-portrait with three...

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tidying idea

caroline ganci patterson half of the story i was telling had a moral about perversion, but i leave that part out for the saccharine tongue lickers. i say to my mother, the price of gas  on the...

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I’m glad my grandma died before she could see me get fat

Bleah Patterson 2024 Poetry Spring Contest Runner Up  because she taught me butter, sauté all of the butter     add all of the sugar         stir in all...

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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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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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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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puzzle

Hailey June Gross after Jericho Brown and SZA  lie by myself at night, let hands trace lips, puzzle- piece together the tips—what i really mean is they dip in my pussy. stop ’em in...

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