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Sugar Baby

By Alexa Logush

When Danny turned six, his mouth rotted and a host of flies swarmed his lips. They laid their ugly eggs…

How to Embed your Legacy

By Anita Goveas

Take one pair of lightly-arched, freshly-manicured feet, slip off your mother’s gold-edged chappals that always chafed, and plant them firmly…

Choreography

By Jamie Etheridge

She knocks things over—pyramid-stacked cans in the grocery store, books off the shelf at the library, her father’s glasses from…

1918

By Francine Witte

Like every other night, Finkus creaks the splintery door, slips out of his only shirt and folds it over a…

mi corazón quiere cantar así

By JJ Peña

did you hear about the shooting? my cousin jasmine texts. i tell her no, open up twitter to see if…

freedom fighters

By aureleo sans

In our neighborhood, the dumpsters peel orange but not like citrus.  White liquid seeps from their underbelly.  Nothing drinks the…

Not Interested

By Catherine Gammon

I’m not interested, she said, in restless craving, space-time music, outside combining elements. Images only, she said, with a shake…

When You Come Home From Nashville

By Patricia Q. Bidar

I get lost three times en route to the Oakland Airport, ten minutes from home. I have waited for you…

Dorothy Paints Poppies from Memory

By Barbara Diehl

Because she is still shaking the doorknobs of this broken farmhouse the cyclone heaved from its foundation and dropped like…

How to Take Care (of the Environment)

By Yvanna Vien Tica

1. Reduce The first night you eat Peking duck. It is not your first time to consider ducks as food…

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