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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 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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Fiction


Ashore by Abby Manzella
August 30, 2022

There was no explosion, no note, no shoot out, just a silence where there had so recently been a girl.

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More Like A Body Than a Person by Ashton Russell
August 16, 2022

Maybe a poet fell in love with her when she wasn’t ready, he wrote her a letter and sent her pressed flowers from his garden.

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Apocalypse Now by Dorothy Rice
August 16, 2022

the whites of his eyes wide like he didn’t know this helpless, fat, beetle-on-its-back, version of me.

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You Know Better but I Know You by Liz Matthews
August 16, 2022

I wanted to be dizzy, to have the feeling we had after rolling down your backyard hill and landing in a leaf pile.

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Thirst by Tara Stillions Whitehead
August 9, 2022

Every time I thought about Analise, I pictured them putting on Chapstick, in slow-motion.

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