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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.
    • Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
      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.
    • Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes
      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
    • The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
      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.

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Time Away by Jen Knox
November 8, 2022
Looking deeper, advocating for something more, is to feel the wings wrapped around our necks.
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Prom Date by Sudha Balagopal
November 8, 2022
Let's say John tied her to a chair after she said she couldn't go to prom with him. Let's say the boy has a butcher's knife in his hand.
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To Be a Girl by Sarah Freligh
November 1, 2022
We’re bleeders or will be. This is what they tell us in a dark room, blinds drawn, rows of desks just so
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Survival Training by Michelle Ross
November 1, 2022
I will be ten tomorrow, and I feel cheated in too many ways to count.
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Good Sides by Elizabeth DeWolf
November 1, 2022
The boys pull tiny bottles of Captain Morgan from their pockets, their fee for entry. They roll one to each of us, and we gag when we sip.
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    An Understory by Andrew Walker
    I could string myself together with the twine of nature and poetry.

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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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