Easy-Care

Chey Dugan Content Warning: This story contains depictions of and discusses the following sensitive topics: death/dying. In the parking lot of Thrive & Blossom, I scratched the stubble on my neck...

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Soft Grids, Long Distance

Julia Talen Julia Kooi Talen is an essayist and poet based in the midwest where she teaches creative writing and composition. Currently a PhD candidate in creative writing, Talen lives with their...

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home

Nafisa Nazir A lifetime of broken plates and bruised knuckles will chase you out of your cradle before the typhoon does.  I don’t remember the day I left well, only all that came after. I remember...

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Santa Carola y su Corolla

Alexandra Clemente Perez Carola looks through the windshield of her golden Corolla. There is a green Chevy pick-up staring straight at her. My mother Carola, my husband, and I are on one end; our...

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55.1

Purchase a copy of 55.1 here. Fiction Easy-Care by Chey Dugan Crawford by Chris Edmonds Cryptids of Ohio by Sydney Koeplin The Memory Cranes by Kelly Murashige39mg Tar by Erika Niemi Clay Town by...

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Associations

Giljoon Lee Which came first? The eggor the sperm. The apple or the throat.My throat closing in on itself. Umma putting sweet yuja tea to my lips.Saying, When the body is ill, the nectar drains...

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Little Red

Mary Simmons Yes. Yes. What else is there to say? There are no wolves in the forest. We killed them all and let our children beg. Meat in the sun, sweet enough. Basketfuls of hungry, hungry flies....

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Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Daniel Brennan the gift. the gifthorse. the horse’s mouth.the rubber cut of tongueand sour steep of breath.the outstanding threat: never look.the troublesome desire to look. his tonguepressed into...

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Rapture with Foul Mouth

Kale Hensley In vain, I wore this flesh as a mistake, bred so            proper by this derelict age. Oh, despise do I the decorum of being crossed: be meek,...

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Cherry Bomb

C. E. Janecek FINDINGS: There is a T1 hypointense, T2 hyperintense lesion within the left anterior pituitary. This measures approximately 6 mm coronal by 5 mm sagittal by 7 mm craniocaudal.  The...

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