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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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Beach Calamity by Thad DeVassie
February 27, 2024

Nobody recognized the reaper without his black-hooded cloak.

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My Eating Disorder Competes on America’s Next Top Model by Rachael Marie Walker
February 27, 2024

She can transform, weigh so much, weigh nothing at all.

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Gumballs by Mike Prask
February 22, 2024

I looked down at Fay, who was again eyeing the gumball machine. While she did that, I glanced over at the door, plotting an escape, possibly before our gear was all the way loaded into the truck. She wasn’t even being bad, but it wouldn’t be the first time her behavior—or the risk of it worsening—forced me to flee a public location and abandon an adult obligation prematurely.

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A Special Kind of Machine by Gina Thayer
January 30, 2024

I try to ask the scientists questions, but I wasn’t programmed for small talk.

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Break by Glen Pourciau
January 23, 2024

I kept walking, the memory of him on my back.

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