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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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Having a Baby at 43 by Debora Kuan
September 27, 2021
Good bones, good / home—how tired you are, / and yet how you serve.
Poetry
Lady by Anthony Okpunor
September 27, 2021
Do you know how much wind bleeds before there is a tongue to call it rain?
Poetry  / The Weekly
Bible College Memory #3 by Lila Robinett
September 21, 2021
I found a bottle / of nail polish in the underbelly / of a bag from college.
Fiction
A Man Belongs to Women by Gladwell Pamba
September 7, 2021
Even though she was out of the streets, she didn’t trust man nor nature to care for a child
Poetry
Moon Landing by Erin Carlyle
September 7, 2021
When daddy went to the moon, I sat quietly at home, moonless
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