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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 Messenger by Shannon St. Hilaire
September 18, 2022

how close they lived, how much they touched, how they were buried next to one another...

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Upside Down by Kathryn Kulpa
September 18, 2022

Nothing above us but sky. Nothing ahead but road.

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Or Else by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
September 18, 2022

The next scream is so close he jumps when he hears it, almost slipping on the muddied red dirt, soaked from the morning rains.

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Glow Sticks by Barbara Westwood Diehl
September 18, 2022

More than what she has for her own kid—one last glow stick, not yet cracked. All that light inside, just waiting.

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And Another Thing by L Mari Harris
September 13, 2022

I love her indignance over their choice of chain restaurant as much as over the cheating.

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