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Carousel, by Megan Hayes

Growing feels a lot more like incessantly turning, wondering which memory from your past will take a new form in the future. Feel the...

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Leave me, by Zainab Batool

If your pain could speak to you, it would say "leave me" You've been taking me all along Carrying the ache in your hands. Halt your steps...

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I am Fermenting, by Ellen Gwin

In my bitter sixteens I tasted like sweet, succulent blackberries. As dark as I presented myself, my skin oozed red sap onto anyone with...

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Manzhouli: Self-portrait of a City, by Tara Manshon

A favorite pastime of Manzhoulians is to collect broken and discarded items. Homes are often decorated with the unwanted and it is not...

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Lies I’ll Tell My Son, by Michael Keenan Gutierrez

My great-grandfather was a bookie. This is true. He worked a corner in downtown Los Angeles back in the 30s and 40s, running a newspaper...

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Silence, by Ellie Benesch

As we sit on the couch, I look out at the gray sky. It’s almost charcoal, with lighter strokes here and there. I hear the thunder growl,...

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Identity Thief, by Ronna Whitehead

You ripped us from Mother’s arms, and Father tried to fight you. He didn’t have a gun, and your team had many. Uniformed men forced us...