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SWEETNESS by Tina Kimbrell

September 6, 2023

On the morning that she died, I don’t think I knew that it was the day that we would stop waiting. We were just going to her bedside, as we did. As we had done for days. Suspended in that grief fog, gritty and spinning.

SARAN WRAP MAGIC: An Interview with Amy Cipolla Barnes

September 1, 2023

Where neighbors handed warm zucchini bread over fences, a 10-year-old drove me around a farm in a rusty truck, and I most likely met a serial killer.

HOBBIES by Robbie Herbst

August 30, 2023

She’d say that it’s not enough for a man to create a life; he must sustain it. Protect it. Sufficiency means safety. It means contingencies. It means insurance.

IF SHE WERE AN ANIMAL by Cameron Darc

August 28, 2023

He fondles a piece of charcoal and looks at me before touching the paper. The line makes a limp imitation of a spine. A nose appears.

ELAINE SUN, KRAMER MOON, GEORGE RISING: An Interview with Donald Quist

August 25, 2023

I'm still thinking through and discovering all Seinfeld has, and will, teach me about creative writing, particularly poetic movement, and/or MacGuffins as a narrative technique.

COMPANY MAN by Jeff Karr

August 23, 2023

The lord’s light is a fathomless null. Sometimes you’re afforded a glimpse and it’s a tunnel on the other side of which you crawl on the accordioned car’s ceiling.

SMOKE AND FISH by Uyen P. Dang

August 21, 2023

At first everyone blamed the smoke on the war, then the steel plant, and, finally, the water. But Ong Hai says it’s not water but grief at the bottom of the sea.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS

August 18, 2023

Like Terminators or cockroaches, dive bars will always rise again. They’re one of the last bastions of organic and spontaneous social connection.

AT THE VERY CENTER OF YOU IS NOTHING by Alice M.

August 16, 2023

The masks were thin, pliable. They attached to her skin, seamless. They emoted for her, always appropriate, guaranteed to fetch the reaction she wanted.

HEARTLESS by Alex Sullivan

August 14, 2023

Those twins out of St. Paul are doing some live podcast tour about living without lungs but that’s easy, the no lungs thing.