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We Can Learn From This, You Know by Jacob Nantz
September 6, 2020
We all have vices, & who’s to say whose are worse if we’re all buried in the end?
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I Didn’t Know What to Say, So I Just Said Thanks by David Joseph
September 4, 2020
You could fool someone into thinking you knew what you were doing if you did it with certainty.
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Leshko’s: Cold Pierogies, Warm Beer, Wish You Were Here by Deborah Johnstone
September 3, 2020
" ... the fluorescent lights that cast each person as a putrefied replica of humanity – a Madame Tussaud-like live works series in the process of decay."
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    Out of Sight by Hannah Grieco
    The monster could have sunk its teeth into the side of its husband’s skull, could have ripped his flesh from the bone, but it’s not a biter.

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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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    Undiagnosis by Jacob Nantz

    I could see my breath as I cursed you / to hurry.
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