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    • Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
      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.
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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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Daddy Asks if You Want a Pink or Red Swiss Army Knife by Brianna Corley
February 21, 2023
In the South, you are given your first knife when you still have to climb the cabinet tops to reach the mason jars filled with your mawmaw’s mayhaw jelly.
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Peach Pie by Emily Ross
February 14, 2023
I brought you a peach pie, just for old times.
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The Water, The Drought by Monica Fuglei
February 7, 2023
I carried it so much its weight was a small worry stone in my pocket.
Non-Fiction
Bussing (Ascension) by Jen Knox
February 1, 2023
Our kiss solidified me as part of the team, but her gaze stole something from me that wasn't quite my heart.
The Weekly
You Are a Spider by T.C. Kemper
January 31, 2023
When morning comes, you clap your pedipalps in satisfaction and wait for admiration of your latest debut.
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  • Sports Commentary by poet Jacob Nantz

    Meet Lissy Taylor: The Rising UK Songstress Supporting the Iconic Oasis Reunion

    Lissy Taylor is forging her own path in the music industry—and leaving a blueprint for others in her wake.
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    Baseball, Comedy, and How Doubt and Failure Keep Us Going By Jacob Nantz

    The best job I ever had was selling concessions at a minor-league ballpark in Geneva, Illinois.
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    The Case for Relegation by Jacob Nantz

    The seasons for both these teams were, objectively speaking, failures for many reasons, but losing the contest of who can win by losing might be the most difficult for each front office to swallow.
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    Brandon Lamar Rials: Blending Fashion and Motorsports to Redefine Culture by Jacob Nantz

    This is about Brandon Lamar Rials, an entrepreneur and designer, who is on a mission to create work that inspires others while increasing black representation in motorsports by blending his interests in automotive design, fashion, and creativity to build a unique body and hobby shop, as well as a clothing boutique, that amplifies black voices in the automotive industry and culture.
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    A Change in View by Jacob Nantz

    How Unconventional Venues Shed New Light—and New Meaning—on Old Loves

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