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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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Fiction
Sorry by Sarah Freligh
March 14, 2024
For once she’s slept soundly, a full night in her own bed without being punched or meowed awake by Fluffy whose reign of terror typically began well before the sun came up.
Non-Fiction
Baseball, Comedy, and How Doubt and Failure Keep Us Going By Jacob Nantz
March 13, 2024
The best job I ever had was selling concessions at a minor-league ballpark in Geneva, Illinois.
The Weekly
Winter Solstice by Anastasios Mihalopoulos
March 12, 2024
We find the first tavern that will have us. There, through clam chowder grins we eat the cold out of our bodies.
The Weekly
Biophilia by Nancy Lynée Woo
March 4, 2024
Despite it all, I throw my body onto the ancient path of living.
Non-Fiction
Our Golden Maple by Abby Manzella
March 1, 2024
Surely, it can be saved. Surely, this conversation can’t cause its demise. A tree feels like a permanent thing.