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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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      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.

The Weekly


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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Guttering Flame on a Tennessee Afternoon by Justin Aoba
October 23, 2023

I held the world in perfect stillness within the cold of my hands.

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Returning from the Dead to Go Shopping by Jared Beloff
October 17, 2023

It is raining and the clouds have no order or edge. I want like a disembodied song.

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Returning from the Dead to Seek Transcendence by Jared Beloff
October 17, 2023

Nominated for Best of the Net     

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Solanum by Laura McPherson
October 10, 2023

She posted multiple photos on her socials every day, and at least one story a week. But despite all that, even the tabloids couldn’t find her in real life, and they were paying people just to look.

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