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      Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
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      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
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      I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.

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      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Fiction


The Gibeon Sun by Joshua Thusat
September 18, 2022

The bear...seemed part of him, a projection, and then it seemed bigger than him too, the universe.

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The Leaving and the Left Behind by Jad Josey
September 18, 2022

He turned my palm skyward and pressed the key there, closing my fingers over the black plastic fob.

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You Can’t Sleep Here by Kathy Seifert
September 18, 2022

Cul de sac is a French term meaning bottom of the bag—you know that from when you worked as a translator. It also means there’s only one exit, one way out.

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Send Me a Word by Alice Kaltman
September 18, 2022

The hoodoos still bear witness, still wait. Tiny bore holes line the craggy ridges of soft clay like acne scars.

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The First Time I Dug a Hole by Juliette Neil
September 18, 2022

I wasn’t strong enough to break through the first layer of earth, and I had to step on the shovel to make a crack, push my whole body into it.

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