Tag: 54.2

A text that read “I love you” and a follow up

grace (ge) gilbert A text that read “I love you” and a follow up to qualify what that meant. That there is something familiar, like we’ve seen each other in a past life. The guilt of the dream...

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Two Burials

Jumaana Abdu 2025 Fiction Contest Winner Luqmān waited until Hābil was dead before he took stock of their camp. There was an eagle at the mouth of the cave with a brown snake under its claw. It...

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Phi Phi AN

“As far as half the way to the Gateway” Analog photograph, black and white “As far as half the way to the Gateway” Analog photograph, black and white Phi Phi AN is a...

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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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Bartending Because Hot People Bartend

Kate Garcia and I want to be hot. I want to be hot in a girl way and a boy way. A bot way. A seventeen-year-old way and like my mom. So hot that the wheels fall off—I’m out of control! So hot I...

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The Stall

Barbara T. Parker You are allowed one drink only, so make it count. My secret mission. I’m on my way to Old Town, the first night out since I became a shadow, abruptly and irreversibly over...

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D. Arifah

Wearing Her Heart on Her Skin Digital photography D. Arifah is a photographer captivated by the silent stories the world tells. Her photography seeks to preserve these delicate narratives and share...

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Ozark Geography

Megan Blankenship This is the kind of place I grew up: as a child I thought it was a law that names of towns contain “rock”  or “mountain.” I knew four towns, and Little Rock was culture. ...

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