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

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Rising vs. Nadia by Cadence Mandybura
August 13, 2024

When she isn’t careful, Nadia’s feet unhinge from the ground.

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Bringing Up Lambs by Jess Worsdale
May 2, 2024

And who’d bother with the sheep anyway? All yellowed teeth and daggy-arsed, worn out from too much living.

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Tug of Love and War by Karen Crawford
April 22, 2024

You will tie your apron like you tie your hair. And the boys will dogfight for their father’s attention.

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After Nighthawks by Francine Witte
March 19, 2024

You order the coffee that lies mud-dead on your tongue and the couple at the other end of the counter seem to be screaming their twoness at you.

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Sorry by Sarah Freligh
March 14, 2024

For once she’s slept soundly, a full night in her own bed without being punched or meowed awake by Fluffy whose reign of terror typically began well before the sun came up.

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