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      Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
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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.
    • Saturation by Claire Oleson
      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.

The Weekly


Let the Contested Moments Begin by Carol Dorf
October 31, 2023

If you meet me by the light of the moon, I promise not to bring stones.

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A Realization by Iqra Abid
October 31, 2023

Maybe I’m looking for answers in the wrong place, pleading with a universe that does not hear me instead of listening to the body that homes me.

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On These Streets by Aparna Mitra
October 30, 2023

In her smudged mind, he is still ten. It’s dark. She is calling him home, her voice waving like a flag

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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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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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