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A Degas Tattoo

Katherine Elena-Hanson - 0
Degas, famous impressionist artist that he was, doesn’t hold up well in the court of treating humans respectfully. Regardless, I still love his work.

Intermittent Rivers

Tina Carlson - 1
By mid-summer the river is mostly dry. People living on the banks have moved to more shade. I sit in its sandy bed, which sifts through my fingers.

Cocktails in Jaffa

Elena Shakhnovsky - 0
We quietly check our phones to see if Iran has attacked yet or if we can still finish those cocktails.

Would That Make Me the Atheist’s Wife?

Madeline Dietzman - 0
Translation: You’re not here enough for a pastor’s wife.

Bordering on Absurdity

Kirk Astroth - 0
We maintain our Humane Borders website’s “death map” to hammer home the appalling reality that Arizona is a land of open graves.

The Smell of Fresh Mint: On Signs and Synchronicities

Jessica Steward - 0
She is with me every time I smell fresh mint, and it transports me to her garden.

Dirty Spanish

Lauren Brockmeyer - 0
Like the history of the island itself, the history of Puerto Rican Spanish is complicated, blended together from all the cultures that have influenced it.

Learning to Figure Skate at 34 as a Chinese Canadian American Woman

Xing Zhang - 0
On the first day of figure skating class, I felt like I jumped into the deep end of a pool without knowing how to swim.

Hunger Strike

Hannah Bottigheimer - 0
And then it hits me: I am witness to my own hunger strike.

Damn You J. D.

Thom Schilling - 0
Along the way, J. D. Salinger taught me how to exasperate a hypocrite.

The Photo Never Changes

Christopher Liverman - 0
Maybe that’s the essence of grief — being frozen in a photograph while the rest of your life moves on without permission.

Ten Stolen Dollars: Who We Were, Who We Are

Michael Collard - 0
That version of me—the one trembling on the asphalt, clutching ten stolen dollars—isn’t the whole story.
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