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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.
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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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Apocalypse Now by Dorothy Rice
August 16, 2022
the whites of his eyes wide like he didn’t know this helpless, fat, beetle-on-its-back, version of me.
Fiction
More Like A Body Than a Person by Ashton Russell
August 16, 2022
Maybe a poet fell in love with her when she wasn’t ready, he wrote her a letter and sent her pressed flowers from his garden.
Poetry
Morning Death by Chamomile Wheatley
August 16, 2022
Death in her evening moccasins will find us the way a river finds the estuary.
Poetry
Where by Jessica Manack
August 16, 2022
And there, in the underpass that’s always flooded, we joined our puzzle-piece teeth. We ignored the graffiti.
Poetry
Inheritance by Willie James
August 16, 2022
My sister and I are beginning to inherit the lightning blond crabgrasses and balding planes of our father and mother’s wealth.
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    All Water Holds a Memory by Sabrina Hicks
    You stood for a second—my slack-jawed baby brother, looking up at me just before a river raged between us.

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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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