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I am Going to Quit My Job by Brittany Thomas

February 13, 2024

To build something like home on another shore.

February 13, 2024

January is 31 tiny Januarys in a trench coat trying to buy tickets to the rest of the year.

February 1, 2024

“I can’t live with this pain,” you say to her. “I’m ready for God to take me.”

January 30, 2024

Your genes take these secret messages about the past to the future, even when you burned the evidence

January 30, 2024

I try to ask the scientists questions, but I wasn’t programmed for small talk.

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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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I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
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