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Big Red
It started out small—a red speck hardly noticed on the Harlem sidewalk. Maybe it drifted down from the heavens. Maybe…
May Flash Roundup
Being A Girl in Someone Else’s Story In workshop, writing a girl protagonist was difficult. We just don’t like her,…
Comorbidity
When you cook you use every pot, including ones that can’t go in the dishwasher, because I clean; when I…
Empty Words
In my language people call it ‘slippery fetus’, cannot be held, unravels like ribbon. You are ‘slippery daughter’, will not…
Look Sky, No Suburbs
Mom gets them out of Skokie when Laila is four. She talks about endless troops of kids and dead ends…
I Have Dreamed of The Divine
Each night, my soul flutters out of its husk and wanders between the stars. Through sheets of laterite and palm…
War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out
Shrapnel bores out of Daddy when he chops too much wood. They float to a place near his spine and…
Libertas
Just as the Greeks hypothesised, my uterus traversed my whole body, and yet in an absence of hysteria, she squeezed…
We Love in Small Moments: a Collection on Love Review
We Love in Small Moments: a Collection on Love is the debut chapbook by Melissa Boles published by Emerge Literary…
Preface: The Spaces Boundaries Open Up
I’ve always thought life is more about what is unsaid than what is said. We live in odd gaps of…
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