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One Minute Thirty-Five Seconds

By Caleb Ludwick
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She wakes to a white-bellied blur, a frantic smudge of a bird looping the motel room. It jerks sideways like…

All and Sundry

By Candace Leigh Coulombe
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Do not let your children stand in the shopping cart. Do not let them ride in the bottom of the…

Sweetie Come Brush Me

By Leesa Fenderson
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1. I jump on my bicycle and keep my head straight when I see the girls a grade ahead of…

Lines Left

By Katie ten Hagen
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My dad mowed the lawn every Saturday morning—weather permitting—for seventy-two years. Vacations were scheduled around it, plans turned down, brunches…

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