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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

An Unwanted Inheritance: A Fractured Love

Mansi Bhatia -
“Mumma says: We. Are. In. The. Hospital.” My Tesla announces in its flat, mechanical voice as I turn onto El Camino Real after school...

Being a Host

Arina Boyko -

Oxygen

Jeanne-Marie Fleming -

Background Music

Caroline Wampole -

Looking Through a Lens: The Long Run

Linda Katherine Cutting -

Fiction

Years Before the Divorce, When My Children Were Young

Hazel Brown -
The gate was tall and held closed by ivy. Does ivy stall all year round, or does it come in waves, green working its...

Thought, but Didn’t Say

Lynn Sloan -

Reason to Believe

Ray Morrison -

Letter to the Corinthians

David Desjardins -

Food & Stuff

Mark Williams -

Poetry

[Tonight you are seated at the base of a tree in the desert…]

JeFF Stumpo -
Tonight you are seated at the base of a tree in the desert. You hold a clay bowl full of water. The tree seasons in an instant...

Not Girl but Leviathan

Despy Boutris -

Braided Spring

Laura E. Garrard -

Drive-By Apothéose

Matt Vekakis -

Secret Beach Pyre Glimpsed from a Cliff

Alex Dodt -
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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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