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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


Call Me Verdean by Avitus B. Carle
October 27, 2023

I longed to be called Verdean, to find solace beneath the cracked bell in Philadelphia

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Tics by Zoe Phillips
October 25, 2023

Every morning, he’d feel as if tiny creatures were wriggling from his cheekbones, his nose scrunching lopsidedly and at random as he blinked himself into consciousness.

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The Autopsy Technician Student by Arthur Eliot Li
October 25, 2023

Accidentally, I killed a pediatric patient as a hospital nurse.

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Tynan – YELLOW: /ˈjɛləʊ/ by L. Dacre Tynan
October 24, 2023

It’s now that I feel joy for the yellow morning.

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Written on the Midsoles by Edmond Stevens
October 18, 2023

Most people confuse comfort with happiness.

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