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The Natural Order of Things

December 3, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2022 / Diane Forman

I am drawn to a series of black and white photos in a recent New Yorker magazine. The article reviews a book of 1200 images through which the author, Nancy Floyd, chronicles herself aging over a forty year period. Flabbergasted, I stare at the ease with which she leans against doorways or fence posts, without any of the vanity or careful posing that has been typical of most of my lifelong behavior when being photographed. . .

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The Thing Speaks For Itself

December 2, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2022 / JoeAnn Hart

Look at this, a hand towel, hot from the dryer. A souvenir from a friend’s trip to Italy not so long ago. I bury my face in its warmth, unable to let go until the linen is cold. It clearly speaks for itself, but when I point that out, no one listens so I must make the case myself. . .

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Hail Mary Pass

November 27, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2022 / Kristin Marie

About a year after Mom died, when I was a freshman in high school, I had a weekend job as a cashier at a car wash. Customers pulled their Range Rovers and Subarus up to my window and ordered the type of wash they wanted from a menu, kind of like McDonald’s, except this historical town’s zoning laws prohibited most chain restaurants and franchises. . .

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A Message to My Mother in Morse Code

May 13, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Amanda Crum

You asked me how it felt, my belly swollen with cramps and emptiness. Those were the cold-spark days when winter kept us huddled in bed. You were worried about how much pain I was in, but I had no answer to give that didn’t end in blood, so I turned my head due west and pondered the slice of sky framed in the window [. . .]

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Stitches

May 10, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Lizzie Roberts

When I checked the clock again it was 5:16 a.m. I would get up in less than an hour. And I would have to stay alive until O, our five-year-old, was eighteen. When you don’t want to live another day, thirteen years is an impossible amount of time to fathom. In the half-light, simple math and insomniac logic can lead to infinity. [. . .]

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Your Rapist has Famous Parents

May 1, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Danielle Shorr

You are with your parents when you first meet him. You are on vacation, a spring break trip to a big city you are going to live near next year. You are seventeen, and certainly, you look it, if not younger [. . .]

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Hieroglyphics

December 5, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2021 / Jordan Guevara

Almost every night now, I cauterize my jaws shut. Our melancholy, this weight—as Ginsberg once put it, this love—grinding and pressurizing my teeth into dust.[…]

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The Beautiful Mundane

December 5, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2021 / Anne Pinkerton

Each time a new friend was in treatment, I held my breath waiting for results of follow-up scans, my entire body exhaling when results were positive. As in negative. As in clear.[…]

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Sue Hann

Master of Light

June 9, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sue Hann

You get to re-live childhood again if you have children, a kind of a do-over, the opportunity to
create the kind of childhood you had and loved, or, even more seductive, the chance to create
the childhood you never had and missed your whole life.[…]

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Tom Wade

An Ancestor’s Legacy

June 7, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2020 / Tom Wade

Well, it looks as though you have three choices. You can go to him as he orders; you can refuse,
be whipped, and then have him take you by force; or you can run away again.[…]

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White Man’s Poison

November 21, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Kelley Jhung
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Life Only Gets Harder, or Silver Plungers at a Pre-K Graduation

November 21, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mandy Brown
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Love in the Archives

November 18, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Eileen Vorbach Collins
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Secret Ingredients

May 18, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Nicole Nimri

Turkish Coffee Mama tilts the cup to the side, rolls it around, examines each line, dot, drop. They look like black, crusty Jackson Pollock paintings. She doesn’t take it too seriously. “Ah, habibti, it’s a man in a hat. You’ll meet him soon, and he will be very important to you,” she says to my […]

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Memento Meninges

May 15, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Tyler Arndt

1. Despite my protests, neither my mother nor my father will concede the point. I was not, according to them, in my right mind when I called from a hospital bed at Ajou University Hospital. They detected something. An aberrance. Like an incoherence of speech, or a delirious register of voice. It’s only natural they […]

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In the Zone

May 13, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Lindsey R. Swindall

Folks, it’s a beautiful, clear day here on the Florida coast. We have just been given a go for today’s space shuttle launch. *     *     * I grew up in south Florida not too far from Cape Canaveral when the shuttle program was active in the eighties. The heady days of the space race were […]

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Playing House

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Alex Myers

There was an abandoned house a few miles from where I grew up. It was out on Mt. Mica Mine Road, past the egg farm, past the little cemetery that held just a few toothlike stones, up a big hill and then down the other side. If you did it right, if you let the […]

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Polar Nights

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Megan Donnelly

It’s Monday at the top of the world. It’s morning, but the sun hasn’t risen in weeks. The elementary school where I teach is a fifteen-minute walk across the tundra and past the lagoon where Arctic swans glide during the brief summer season. In the fall, snowy owls fly overhead in the dusky morning hours […]

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Betrayed by Blood

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Denise Tolan

In 1973, the Squirrel Cage was just another scummy go-go bar on a street filled with businesses that paired well with scummy go-go bars. It’s gone now, of course; replaced by an above ground pool company—almost an elbow-to-the-ribs attempt at baptismal humor. The Squirrel Cage sat at the crossroads of Austin Highway and Walzem Road […]

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Arabian Night

May 29, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Diane G. Martin

Call me Ismail, not Ishmael, which rhymes with wish fail, or Tom, Dick, or Harry, which rhyme with nothing that rings true to me, just because you cannot be bothered to learn to pronounce my name. It goes like this, three separate syllables: Is—like the prolonged break of a wave; ma—half of Mama; il—like a […]

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Bad Mom

May 29, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Elizabeth Brico

By the time I brought my son to vacation in Hawai’i, I knew something was wrong. With him, with me, with the world—take your pick. I remember it as perfect; the month we spent lost among the wild sunshine of the deep Pacific. A time outside of time. Our special little bubble of happiness when, […]

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and so we wind ourselves up

May 29, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Amber Wu

If you ask me now, I could still do it. Not all of it, of course—not now, not anymore. The more esoteric things—the notes for B minor, the exactitude between allegro and allegretto—those have long since been forgotten, faded with time and disuse. But hand me the sheet music, my bent Bach primers and blue Schumann […]

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Gut Instinct

November 24, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Kristine Jepsen

I hang up from haggling with a software rep and realize my second cup of coffee is cold. Typical. I get lost in what I’m doing and rarely finish a cup of anything. In the kitchen, my husband is half done preparing a poor-boy lunch: taco shell rejects—the ones in each box a little too […]

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To Mold a Star without Burning (or, Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Art Critique)

November 21, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Ola Faleti

A. Description The Work’s medium was oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus, birthed one December day in 1960, Brooklyn. Boy child from brush strokes of Puerto Rican mother and Haitian father. Face framing wide-set brown eyes and wide refined nose. Our eyes are drawn to the thin line that divided his naked torso in […]

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The Typewriter

November 18, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Marilyn McCabe

The typewriter’s film of dust: I could have written in it with a finger. It had been a while since she’d found reason to type anything. The last thing, perhaps, a fresh list of contacts she carried around with her, knowing she could not be trusted to know, might not remember. Her family, our names, […]

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Dead Daddies and White Castles

May 15, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2017 / by N'kenge Feagin

This essay will have a dead daddy in it. There will be some other stuff in here, but it will mainly be about a dead daddy (mine). There are some who want to know the details. I am not one of those people. But I’m also not generally a reader of dead daddy stories. Add […]

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The Space Between the Stars

May 9, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Wendy Fontaine

My daughter, Angie, splashes in the swimming pool one minute, then jumps into the hot tub the next minute, at our rented beach house in Kea’au, a tiny town on the eastern side of Hawaii’s Big Island. Afternoon clouds break as she goes from one extreme to the other, sending herself into alternating fits of […]

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Rat Fink

May 9, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Mickey Revenaugh

My brother Mark is the essence of juvey cool, hair slicked back in a perfect duck’s ass, white T-shirt with a pack of Camels rolled up in one sleeve, Levis like the skin he was born in, pointy-toed shoes that the Mexican kids call cockroach killers. He is sixteen, months from dropping out of high […]

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Eternal Father & The Other Army

November 25, 2016/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Sarah Pape

It is still dark when I leave the house, bags and rolling cart full of teaching materials stacked up by the door. I let the silence of the road and the slowly lightening landscape pull me into the waking world, coffee clasped tight in one hand, while the other hand steers. I drive for an […]

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Disquieting

November 24, 2016/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Laura P. McCarty

I hallucinate. Only at night, only when I travel for work. The drug-induced visions are violent but worth it. I take an anti-malaria medicine to stay alive. Malaria nearly killed my ex-husband when we lived in Vietnam. His fevers reached 107.5. He convulsed, raged, and sweat. He should have died, like our friend Clive. The […]

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Diagnosed at Sixty – My ADHD Journey

April 22, 2022/in Blog / Kait Leonard
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Why Video Game Preservation Matters

April 15, 2022/in Blog / Nicholas Galvez
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Sarees in America

April 1, 2022/in Blog / Majella Pinto
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QVC-land

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

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

April 15, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Which Half

May 18, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Claire Scott
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Antigone in NYC

May 2, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Ann Pedone
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Slackers Rule

April 26, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Karen Regen-Tuero
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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

Here at Lunch Ticket, 2021 represents ten years of our literary journal. 2021 marks the start of a new decade, one I can only hope will stand as tall and iconic in the history of our publication as the jazz age in America. What we’ve put together this fall is what I call and will fondly remember as our “Roaring 20th Issue”.

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