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In Sickness and In Health 0
Mass Quarantine as Aquarium

Before everything shut down, we took a walk through the fish, immune inside their walls. Too close, ...
On January 14, 2021 / By Michael Walsh
In Sickness and In Health 1
Duologue with the Pandemic

after Xavier Villaurrutia [first day ] No one home. In the sad ...
On January 12, 2021 / By David Green
Poetry 0
Anthropomobscene

…quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher. Terre des Hommes Accommodation. Once we’d learned to spell it, found a pleasant sphere for an extended stay, ...
On January 10, 2021 / By Bruce Robinson
Essay & Memoir 0
Pocha

My friend, Leticia, is in the middle of telling me a funny story in the Spanglish we often speak together. We’re on an escalator and she’s trying to ...
On January 9, 2021 / By Janet Rodriguez
Poetry 0
Spiders on the Hancock

Steady at their webs on the brilliant edge, Chicago spiders range outside the windows across the 94th floor, at every vantage their dedicated tensile silks arrayed upon the ...
On January 7, 2021 / By Max Heinegg
Essay & Memoir 0
An American Alphabet*

*Or more aptly titled, A White American Alphabet–26 Letters Towards A Language of Repair. A is for the Allen residence. The Allen residence is where Wendell James Allen, ...
On January 5, 2021 / By Nancy Myers Rust

In Sickness and In Health 0
Mass Quarantine as Aquarium

Before everything shut down, we took a walk through the fish, immune inside their walls. Too close, ...
On January 14, 2021 / By Michael Walsh
In Sickness and In Health 1
Duologue with the Pandemic

after Xavier Villaurrutia [first day ] No one home. In the sad ...
On January 12, 2021 / By David Green
Poetry 0
Anthropomobscene

…quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher. Terre des Hommes Accommodation. Once we’d learned to spell it, found a pleasant sphere for an extended stay, ...
On January 10, 2021 / By Bruce Robinson

Fiction 1
The Diversion

I wasn’t supposed to be in Beirut in December 1993. I certainly wasn’t supposed to be in a hotel cafe, drinking thick coffee while a dust storm raged ...
On November 21, 2020 / By James Burke
Fiction 0
Divertimento

Half past noon on a weekday, the middle of summer. Sunny and hot. The flags outside the municipal buildings sway not in the least, which is a way ...
On November 3, 2020 / By Jessica Treadway
Fiction 0
The Cowboy Channel

The men focus on their poker hands and their glasses of whiskey, preoccupied, as if the saloon is their shared workspace. No one looks up when the new ...
On September 27, 2020 / By Reba Leiding

Essay & Memoir 0
An American Alphabet*

*Or more aptly titled, A White American Alphabet–26 Letters Towards A Language of Repair. A is for the Allen residence. The Allen residence is where Wendell James Allen, ...
On January 5, 2021 / By Nancy Myers Rust
Fiction 0
Pandemic Story Problems

1. Mariah gets a temporary job that pays her $1 on Day One. On the second day, her pay is doubled to 2 dollars. Her daily wage doubles ...
On September 8, 2020 / By Naomi Williams
Ideas 0
Perspective: Trump’s Acts May Face America with an Unwelcome Dilemma

President Trump has a well-known habit of accusing others of what he himself is guilty of. For example, he calls Hollywood “racist” and accuses the national media of reporting “fake ...
On September 2, 2020 / By Keith Raffel