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Elegy for the Unloved by Kevin Clark

August 28, 2024

Nixon declared daylight savings early that year, as if the raw face of the city needed more daylight to show itself off…

August 18, 2024

Grandma knows about science.

August 13, 2024

When she isn’t careful, Nadia’s feet unhinge from the ground.

August 6, 2024

It was after her cataract surgery, so I couldn’t pretend her vision was clouded.

August 1, 2024

Lissy Taylor is forging her own path in the music industry—and leaving a blueprint for others in her wake.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
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.
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.