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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.

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My Paranormal House by Lindsay Calzone
June 14, 2022

When his mother died the year we got married, I suggested he see a psychic medium.

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Lake Number by Tyler Barton
June 7, 2022

One of those places where they printed local heroes’ faces on flags flown from telephone poles.

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Father catches my eyes in the rearview mirror and says, ‘Make sure Cookie stays clean’ by Rachel Laverdiere
May 31, 2022

He only laughs when Cookie does something bad that he finds cute, or when Mother or me are hurt or afraid.

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Tickets 1981 by Glenn Verdi
May 24, 2022

It is 1981, no one outside of Japan or Scandinavia has a cell phone.

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If Moons Collide by Tommy Dean
May 10, 2022

"Can’t you feel it? There are moons between us, pulling us closer."

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