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Spotlight: Reclamation

June 22, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Colleen Ladd

When I am three years old, I feel the burn of a cigarette on my arm…

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Spotlight: Chipped Edges Crumble / A Criss-Crossed Sky

June 8, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / H.L. Nelson

In summer, Gram lazily waves at me with the flyswatter while Gramp chain-smokes Swisher Sweets in his underwear, wrestling always playing on the heavy wooden-entombed TV…

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Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger

Spotlight: Scaring the Stars Into Submission

April 28, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger

3:48am Sleepless. Not just for a string of nights, but for several months. Is this what dying feels like?

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Monique Zamir

Spotlight: We Breathe Through Harmonicas and Four More Poems

April 28, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Monique Zamir

The anarchists must be somewhere says the orange man in the sun hat…

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Jessica Barksdale

Spotlight: Monsters in the Agapanthus

April 10, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Jessica Barksdale

My niece clutches the kitchen doorjamb, her brown eyes wide. Her face is streaked with something dark—mud, dirt, ash. Her thin hair is flyaway, thin, uncombed. “There’s monsters in the bushes…”

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Spotlight: Chameleon / The Most Beautiful Thing / Uni-Love

April 7, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Carly Breault

I’ve found you Imposter Erect against the araceae backdrop Stealing your neighbour’s hue…

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Tayla Jankovits

Spotlight: I Am Cold

March 23, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Talya Jankovits

My mother moved in with me once icicles began to form like claws on my fingertips…

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Spotlight: Earth Mother / Dimensions / Me Versus the Dainties

March 7, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Jennifer J. Pruiett-Selby

My earth mother told me to rub cocoa butter on my gray winter legs, and never fake bake with UV rays…

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Jason McCall

Spotlight: When You Choose Thor: The Dark World Over 12 Years a Slave

February 13, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Jason McCall

Tap into your Southern blood and blame Obama: A black president. A black nerd president. Anything is possible. These days, alien-space-Vikings seem as unreal as the Middle Passage…

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Spotlight: A Pair of Red Shoes

February 6, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Dawn Ferchak

This is a story about a pair of red ankle-strap shoes. High heels, of course, high heels that give the longest legs to even the shortest of girls—in this case, an Italian girl who stood just a little short of five feet tall, in the Jersey City of 1942…

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Christopher Grillo

Spotlight: Fragments of a Shoreline Adolescence; Heroes Tunnel: Confessions of a Working Class Slob.; and Charlene Comes Home From College, May 2012

February 3, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Christopher Eugene Grillo

Frankie and I protect our town, on the scoreboard and at the town fair, still wearing our jerseys, proud of our colors…

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Alison Rollman

Spotlight: The Feeling of Now

January 22, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Alison Rollman

Tonight she’s in a park, sprawled out on her back under the shelter of a scratched-up willow tree…

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Sarah Hahn, Pluto and Persephone / Chris Brown and Rihanna, 2012. Ceramic, 60 x 21 x 21 in.

Spotlight: Gods, Heroes, and Saints Revisited

January 8, 2014/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2014 / Sarah Hahn

My work is a reflection of past cultures, distorted by a mirror of aged antiquity, seen through a haze of modern neon lights…

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Spotlight: Anne Boleyn’s Purple Gown / Anne Boleyn’s Cravings / Anne Boleyn’s Coronation

November 21, 2013/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2013 / Juliana Gray

The first time Henry left a purple bruise, I sent a message to the velvet merchant. His hands, the king’s, had touched me tenderly at the start, although his fingers were always rough…

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Litdish: Mohsin Hamid, Author

October 25, 2013/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2013 / Interviewed by Zainab Shah

Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels: Moth Smoke, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a New York Times bestseller that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and adapted for film; and, most recently, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia…

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Litdish: Kate Maruyama, Author

September 23, 2013/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2013 / Interviewed by Miriam González-Poe

Harrowgate is a decided break from the dominant genre trends, and as such, Maruyama is modernizing a classic form and re-introducing it to a whole new generation of horror readers…

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Spotlight: Closing the Bar / Enough to Stand On / Letter to Youngstown

August 14, 2013/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2013 / Karen Schubert

Backed up to our favorite piece of wall, we’re at Cedars the week before it closes and my friend says she’s been coming down since her bartender boyfriend snuck her in. So many Saturday nights of garage bands and traveling shows, lights and that sound that rattles the ribcage…

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Black and white abstract photo

Spotlight: The Mason Jar

July 23, 2013/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2013 / Anonymous

I thought of my mother as I waited for the museum’s copier to do its work. I watched the green light scan across my retinas and remembered leaning into her, folding myself small into the space between her chin and her lap, feeling the raspy rumble of her voice as I stared into the fire until my eyes swam with spots…

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

Today’s course:

Peace, Love, and a lot of Loud Rock & Roll

June 17, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Sunee Lyn Foley
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Crosses to Pentacles

June 10, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Jazmine Cooper
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Table to Trash

June 3, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Franz Franta
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy
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Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy
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The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

The variety in this issue speaks not only to the eclectic world we inhabit but to the power of the human spirit. We live in an uncertain world. In the U.S., we’re seeing mass shootings daily. Across the world, we’re still very much in a pandemic, some being trapped in their homes for weeks on end, others struggling to stay alive in hospitals. War continues to wage in Ukraine. Iran and North Korea are working diligently to make nuclear weapons. The list goes on. Still, we have artists who are willing and able to be vulnerable with one another, to share stories and art to help us try and make sense of our world.

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