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The Seam Ripper Holds with Those Who Favor Fire by Cady Favazzo

April 15, 2021

the seam ripper is routinely disappointed / to be identified as part of a kit.

April 15, 2021

This lake used to be a valley until they blocked up some poor river.

April 15, 2021

The Lobster Trap is a fisherman’s bar, a real hole in the wall.

April 15, 2021

We’re restless because of the storm, wondering if we’ll lose power.

April 15, 2021

But just as humans can be inhuman, so too can an animal be “not” an animal.

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.