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Dumpster Chicken

Oriana Reilly -
1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Field Notes

The Long Run

Amber Wong -
“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Generations

Dinner Party

Daphne Biener -
“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

In Sickness and In Health

Being a Host

Arina Boyko -
"What are we looking at tonight, love?" The tarot reader asked me, their lips shiny with silver glitter. We were sitting at a round...

Reviews

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

Anri Wheeler -
MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

Background Music

Caroline Wampole -
That first year in Cambridge with the junkies in the hall and no heat because your mother could only pay 90 dollars a month...

Looking Through a Lens: The Long Run

Linda Katherine Cutting -

The Living Encounter the Dead

Casey Jo Graham Welmers -

That Summer in Bulgaria

Erika Gallion Velasquez -

Stage Proxemics

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) -

Fiction

Letter to the Corinthians

David Desjardins -
Pines crowding the two lanes, then a bridge. From its timbers a smell of creosote. Riprap spilling down the steep banks to a swollen...

Food & Stuff

Mark Williams -

The Mulberry Box

Alexia Schauer -

Obits

Gary Guinn -

Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? and Siren

Patricia Q. Bidar -

Poetry

Secret Beach Pyre Glimpsed from a Cliff

Alex Dodt -
Where I am, death is not, And where death is, I Cannot go, so said Epicurus, Who sensed death’s retch Near enough to amend His will for annual feasts In...

After the Symphony

Davin Faris -

Provincetown

Nathan Blansett -

Not a Blessing

Rebecca Weil -

The Dance

Barbara Blatt -
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Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

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