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Just One More Hot Dog

Amanda Brush -
Every time I eat a hot dog, the little voice in the back of my head questions my feeling of necessity to ingest this...

Field Notes

Nevermore

Cathy Schen -
This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Generations

A Calculus of Its Own

Caitlin Gorman -
The first thing I notice as I wake up is that my left hand has fallen asleep, pinned under the undulating ribcage of my...

In Sickness and In Health

The Truth’s The Truth

Faye Snider -
The Myth As a child, I was told that all four of my grandparents died before I was born. Stories prevailed: Bubbe Faygie, on Mom’s...

Reviews

The Trouble with Danish Happiness

Asya Partan -
In the summer of 2021, each day for two weeks, I drove my 13-year-old son 30 minutes north of our suburban Boston home to...

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

Mount Hunger

Jill Muhrer -
First, hike two miles up the mountain to reach cell service. You need to feel the strain in your muscles, the challenge. Driving into...

Fault Lines: Finding Home on Unstable Ground

Cecile Popp Mangtay -

Wolf Nerds

E.B. Bartels -

Rescued

Marlene Olin -

Nevermore

Cathy Schen -

Fiction

Downstream Benefits

Will Willoughby -
I. Deep Dive Around nine on a cold Tuesday morning in March, my wife, Maggie, is already up and showering, so I figure it’s one...

A Desert Passage

David Desjardins -

The Deep End

Ron MacLean -

Broken Horses

Ciaran Cooper -

Salò

Bryan D. Price -

Poetry

Pharmacy

Harry Bauld -
If pharmacy has replaced God, we cannot help but feel that it is a perverse chemistry—Octavio Paz They've locked up all the painkillers and ice...

This Place

Oliver Egger -

Reconstructed Sapphic Fragment #145 and Erasure of Reconstructed Sapphic Fragment #145

Wendy Drexler -

Dead Tired

Richard Carey -

Father Kites

Jeff Friedman -

Advice

Advice

Ask Annie: How Writers Should Read

Anne Bernays -
Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...

Further Reading

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