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Horses in the ’Hood

May 8, 2012/in Spring 2012, Young Adult / by G. Neri

Clip clop clip clop. That’s the sound you hear in the afternoon. Horseshoes on asphalt. Kids whooping it up. Colts snorting. Pop! Crack! Pop! Crack! That’s the sound you hear at night.

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Anything but Oatmeal

May 8, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Spring 2012 / by Sion Dayson

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Black Coffee and Skinned Pigs

May 8, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Gabriel Cabrera

Before the endless cups of black coffee, you dreamed one night of a plump man the shape of a pear hanging above your bed screwing on a golden penis. “It wasn’t the fact that it was gold that made me wake up in tears it was the fact he was turning it to the left […]

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Wince: George and Trayvon

May 7, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Spring 2012 / by Andy Johnson

I want to see Trayvon Martin cutting class and making B’s and C’s and getting the lecture about applying himself and the lecture about setting goals and the one about potential and the other one about priorities. I want to see Trayvon Martin blow off his parents because old people don’t know anything.

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An Alumnus Reports from the Field: Occupy The Globe

May 1, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Spring 2012 / by Nancy L. Conyers

I don’t remember when I first started reading about the Occupy Wall Street Movement last year, but I do remember where.  Facebook.  People started posting about Occupy, asking why nobody was reporting on it.  At first I thought the word Occupy was code for something I didn’t understand.  Having lived outside the US for over […]

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Welcome to Lunch Ticket

May 1, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Spring 2012 / by Steve Heller, Issue 1: Spring 2012

Since 2003 I’ve had the privilege of directing an MFA in creative writing program that is like no other, a program dedicated not only the education of literary artists but to community engagement and the pursuit of social justice—a program that stresses not only the refinement of craft and artistic vision but the rights and […]

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Knuckles

April 27, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Jenny Dunning

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A Dry and Level Space

April 27, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Terry Sanville

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Francesca Lia Block, Author

April 25, 2012/in Interviews, Interviews, Spring 2012 / interviewed by Yolanda Bridges

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The View

February 15, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by LaToya Watkins

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Diagnosis: Persisted or Silent Inheritance

November 7, 2025/in Blog / Paula Williamson
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The Queer Ultimatum Made Me Give My Own Ultimatum

September 26, 2025/in Blog / Lex Garcia
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The Family Eulogist

September 5, 2025/in Blog / Claudia Vaughan
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Lilac and The Housefly: A Tale of Tortured Romanticism

October 24, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Nikki Mae Howard
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Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

My Town

October 31, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Shoshauna Shy
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Acts of Attention: An Abecedarian

October 17, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Rhienna Guedry
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The Cartoonist

October 10, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Ric Nudell
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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 state of the world breaks my heart every day. Broken hearted, I stay online. I can’t log off. Because my career and schooling are all done remotely, I tend to struggle with boundaries regarding screen time, with knowing when to break away.

Like many of you, I have been spilling my guts online to the world because the guts of the world keep spilling. None of it is pretty. But it’s one of the things that, having searched for basically my entire life, I found that tempers the chaos that lives rent free inside my head.

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