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Blink and You Miss Her

By Deesha Philyaw

You were 48 hours old when I called the midwife and told her that my uterus was falling out, hanging…

Orca Girl

By Nicole Tsuno

wears a killer whale’s tooth like a toe tag and populates every available margin with sketches of the sea Oreos.…

Rubber Boots

By Jamie Feldman

Sister Francis’ long black coat whipped behind her in the wind, clipping the heads off dying dandelions and scattering white…

Bone on Bone

By Eric Scot Tryon

My son starts grinding his teeth in the Fall of 3rd grade. As he sleeps. The scraping, the pressure –…

Stealing

By John Fulton

When the boys’ father came to pick them up at their mother’s and take them for the day, he was…

Play Money

By Judith Claire Mitchell

At eight I was rich and powerful, controlled railroads and electric companies. A banker, I embezzled rainbows of cash that…

The Extinction Museum: Exhibit # 914 (tank of anoxic water from Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River)

By Tina May Hall

The bloom of your skin as the river thickens around us. Constellations of algae exhale. We eat the fish that…

Phantom Trails

By Christine Kandic Torres

When Tía Amelia died, we ordered KFC. “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” she used to call it, before biting into the flesh…

On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips

By Myna Chang

On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips Cupid’s bow: The contour line of the upper vermilion. I am drawn tight,…

Cow Town Carnival

By Brett Biebel

Mom was pushing 80 past a semi on the wrong side of Madison, and it was one of them numbers…

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