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Data | Lisie Clark
Instagram thinks I'm still pregnant strollers stretch mark creams leggings that grow as your belly expands spend your money on that which...
Mar 18, 20241 min read


How It Feels | Jordan Holman
I remember the exact moment she asked me like it was yesterday: the white button down shirt and red lipstick and the velvety texture of...
Mar 15, 202412 min read


Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster | Federico Escobar
By noon I am done. I take the picture to her, up the stairs, past the living room, through the sleeping alligators, and she shakes her...
Mar 12, 20242 min read


Las Vegas | Lindsey Steffes
5am and the broken strap of a white dress it’s ghost pain hanging at the Tropicana chest pain in a white line with a bald dealer I was...
Mar 9, 20241 min read


Strangler | Meredith Boe
Head lolled to the side like a dog. Sweetly pollenated air on a nature walk. He picks up a feather and says, like this one? A book told...
Mar 6, 20241 min read


Dear Abby | JC Lockhart
There are things my mother didn’t tell Abby. She didn’t write about my sister or the nanny. She didn’t mention the night light or my...
Mar 3, 20245 min read


Stone Heart | Judith Petry
The hospital takes on a peaceful quiet after dark, especially on Sundays. If it is one of the few times when there are no pending...
Feb 29, 202416 min read


In Doubt | Lydia Trethewey
After Berlinde de Bruyckere the way we hang together, limp as a pair of bloodied antlers, anxiety bodied-out. he is a growth of ribs...
Feb 26, 20241 min read


Nocturne | Zoë Mertz
You are in your bedroom and the lights are low, the lamps casting golden crescents across the creamy white sheets. You never wanted white...
Feb 23, 20242 min read


Ghosted | Holly Fine
He told me the truth using no words, leaving me to walk alone at twilight. Enveloped by choking air, I saw colors in peripherals like the...
Feb 20, 20241 min read


Little Auschwitz | Emma Wells
Blackout memories paint her mind as unwanted doctrines. A pure spirit but lost, damaged in so many complicated, fractious ways. A...
Feb 17, 20248 min read


Putting Butter on a Scone (for Claire, Joan, and Melissa) | Carol Smith
Bossy sister spreads butter on my scone in the coffee shop we happened upon at Nicholson and Drummond. Shy sister reaches in to add peach...
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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