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Dead Little Things

after Fiona Lu   My mother gathers electric starlight  and sows them across the balcony....

SEASONING A CAST IRON PAN IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG

Anna Schwartzman was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was taken to Brooklyn, New York when she...

The Afterlife of Ideas and Writings Unfinished

It is another unusually cool January evening - while one may say that it is the time for beautiful...

I’m a Writer in English, but I’m not English

One of the biggest challenges I face as a writer in English (my mother tongue is Bangla) is...

Azra’s Kaangir and the Apricot Mystery

For the children of my village who can’t help but steal apricots from our garden.Go ahead, you...

APOLLYON

0b1. hey, I know you! you lolling Jell-o eyes, your eyelids are heavy you spit a billion more phrases,...

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Perspective

the wind from the oceanmakes the balcony lawn chairsdanceI lounge on a couchas gray daylight stretchesthrough the sliding glass door I want to...

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hrt4t

Logan unpacks needles, swabs, syringe, bandaidI settle my knee against his thighAs we sit on his Star Wars comforter.He plays Elton John, tiny...

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poetry

Red, Black, Yellow

I told you I saw a red carand the positions we would sit inWhen I said that I was lyingThere was no carand I can't even pretend our positionsI did...

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fortune teller

tea leaves are livingthe steamreminds the sensesthere’s more to heat,that there is flavor in the way we burn Nakia Coleman is a poet trying to find...

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Daily Meditation

I tiptoe to the livingRoom in wool socksI set out last nightThey muffle stepsBetter than cottonWhile my wife and children sleepOf courseI love my...

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fiction

The Ruminant

Christie was full of baloney. She was bent over the plastic carton, rolling up slices, dipping them in honey mustard, and popping them in her mouth...

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Still Life

       “Let's not marinade in delusion and call it bravery for my sake, please,” I say, picking at the newly formed scab on my knee. The ones that...

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Constant Stalker

The bus is late. The afternoon sun is merciless. “Bad accident,” one of the dozen of us waiting announces without looking up from studying the...

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