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The Island by Margaret Adams
Today the sea is dark, but while the sky is too cloudy for the ocean’s surface to reflect blue sunlight, the water seems to hold a glow of its own. Tessa and I keep the…
Abecedarian to Unbind by Christine Stewart
Zygal: H-formed as in yokes, unions. Ours xanthic against a rusty wall and ten rungs tall, the very ladder of our decade. Untether that wood, your word. Take back better, worse, sickness, health. Remove the…
Your Goddamn Favorite by Rachel Lyon
“Saw you on TV,” she said from the kitchen doorway, meatloaf in both hands. Charlie was barefoot in a towel, ultra conscious of his body odor which cut the smell of meat and onions like…
287 South by Zachary Lundgren
Took us out of town, out to the hills and barns and acres stretching beyond our eyes. We never knew where the properties stopped but the split-rail fence on the side of this gravel road…