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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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      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
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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


Shepherd’s Pie by Sophie Develyn
April 19, 2022

Babies love playing with root vegetables.

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There is News Along the Ohio River, IV – VIII by Beth Gilstrap
April 12, 2022

the river won’t ask this woman holding the bench’s arm why she thinks she might float away any second.

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The Things We Found in Your Purse by Cathy Ulrich
April 5, 2022

Was she smiling because she was happy or did someone tell her to wait for the flash, to stay still and pretty and small?

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Postcards From Reno by Annie Berke
March 14, 2022

From the 1930s into the 1960s, Reno, Nevada was America’s Divorce Capital

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I Take Off My Clothes for the First Time by Eric Scot Tryon
March 14, 2022

I take off my clothes in front of other guys for the first time on a Tuesday afternoon. 7th grade PE—Mission Bay Middle School.

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