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Backstory: Cross on the Highway by Andy Smith

September 27, 2021

In August of 2012, a couple of close friends and I embarked on a cross-country tour from Los Angeles to San Antonio.

September 27, 2021

The poem “sanctuary” by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala was one of the first I read from the slush.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
My wife and I arrive in Paris and check into our hotel on the edges of the 2nd and 9th Arrondissement.
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
It wasn’t yet six o’clock when the mine supervisor of Shannon Hill called the Byrd household and woke Ruth out of a simmering sleep.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I am diving for my mother’s last working kidney.