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    • 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.
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      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
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      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
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      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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      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Contest

Fiction  / The Weekly
Prom Date by Sudha Balagopal
November 8, 2022
Let's say John tied her to a chair after she said she couldn't go to prom with him. Let's say the boy has a butcher's knife in his hand.
Fiction  / The Weekly
And Another Thing by L Mari Harris
September 13, 2022
I love her indignance over their choice of chain restaurant as much as over the cheating.
Fiction
More Like A Body Than a Person by Ashton Russell
August 16, 2022
Maybe a poet fell in love with her when she wasn’t ready, he wrote her a letter and sent her pressed flowers from his garden.
Poetry
Inheritance by Willie James
August 16, 2022
My sister and I are beginning to inherit the lightning blond crabgrasses and balding planes of our father and mother’s wealth.
Fiction
You Know Better but I Know You by Liz Matthews
August 16, 2022
I wanted to be dizzy, to have the feeling we had after rolling down your backyard hill and landing in a leaf pile.

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