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Out Along Rt. 154

May 18, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Judy Kaber

Out where the streams etch away from Devil’s Head, out of the bear’s coarse fur, shot in the back over in the bushes in hours before dawn when we were afraid of the wounded, afraid of this shape pulled down from the stars, when we were neighbors on the road to Harmony, up late every […]

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Disco

May 18, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Tim Fitts

[fiction] The Bank of Michigan gave my grandfather a banquet at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in the late seventies. While my parents watched television, I snuck out of the hotel room to explore. Almost immediately, I found myself locked out of the fire escape seven stories up. At seven years old, I pounded […]

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Dominoes

May 18, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Pia Ghosh-Roy

Shaving’s my contribution to society. Like, who needs a brown guy with a beard sitting next to them on the plane these days, you know? Look, no beard, I come in peace brother. Wrong word! Beep. Don’t say brother. Like ever. You don’t want them looking at your backpack. Whatever. So I shaved this morning, […]

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Faceted Phrases Series: Acrylic Paintings

May 17, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Stacey Messier
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Night and Your Memory

May 17, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Translated by Ajit S. Dutta

Night, and your absent memory crept into my heart As in a wasteland, spring blossoms quietly As in a desert, the zephyr sways gently As to a dying man, relief comes, unexpectedly.     Rubai Raat yuuñ dil meñ tirī khoī huī yaad aa.ī Jaise vīrāne meñ chupke se bahār aa jaa.e Jaise sahrāoñ meñ […]

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Donut Dancing

May 17, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Kevin Flannery

Danny was always looking hard at everything, but at the moment he was looking especially hard at Carly the Carp, who had the knife in hand and at-the-ready for oblivious violence. That’s all it took to kick the music off in his head. Bongos carried the wobbly melody along, thudding and thumping deep in his […]

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Matches

May 17, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Kristine Langley Mahler

Green signs loom over I-80, beckoning us towards Omaha; it’s difficult not to exit downtown to the Courtyard Marriott, tell them we want our old room so we could pretend we’re still new at this. I could still get butterflies when he emerges from the bathroom in a shirt and tie, flash-forwarding to the man […]

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The Hunted & The Haunted

May 17, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Daniel Lassell

Visiting into the night, a dog found a buck sprawled onto the back porch of her home, lung pierced and bubbling a thick stripe onto its side. A creature of this type usually dies in the woods. Something about the leaves: they dance a soul to sleep. Yet, somehow, this hulk of hide had found […]

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Switzerland

May 17, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Susan Goldstein

[creative nonfiction] Silly girls. We were two American college co-eds, surrounded by big, jovial mountain climbers from Norway. Or Sweden. We couldn’t understand them. The young bearded men were heavily into their schnapps and laughed as they tried, with hand gestures and broken English, to convince us to join them in a shot, or two. […]

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Sounds of Separation

May 17, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Sarah Kuntz Jones

Leslie thought about lighting a candle as the sun set, tinting her bedroom with a dimming tangerine glow, but she was down to her last box of matches and didn’t want to ask Alan for more. After twelve days of general quarantine, the electricity had gone out when too few workers could make it to […]

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Loves Long Since Forgotten

May 16, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Audrey R. Hollis

When I say the tree was hollow, I do not mean the trunk of it. No, the trunk was sturdy and new. Instead, the branches grew in all directions, even along the ground, spreading feverishly, so that there was a space inside where you could sit and talk, feet dangling off the ground, like being […]

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If Memory

May 16, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Carol D. Marsh

If memory is talisman, this I hold in my palm: my father strides, back straight and face serious, to the edge of the pool. It’s a late summer day. Children of other families splash and shout, a cooling breeze chases the sun. My father is sturdy, not fat and not thin, handsome with wavy dark […]

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1964

May 16, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Claire T. Lawrence

[fiction] The first boy she ever kissed was actually two. Behind the heavy velvet curtains on the stage at the community center. It was summer; they were counselors who ignored their campers, who smoked the dried-up weed she had found in her brother’s dresser, smoked it behind the dumpster during lunch, crouching to avoid the […]

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Kibitzing

May 16, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Emily Light

There must be a Yiddish word for the birds chittering in the bare bushes ablaze with the life of their voices; though their bodies blend with branches their voices belie nothing. My mother’s of course    I will         I want        sew themselves through the fabric of       […]

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Scented Brains

May 15, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Scarlet Jones

In the shower, I let the hot water rinse out the blood, the tremors in my fingers quieting. I have a nice stack of scars and I wonder if they’ll still be there when I’m old, if I make it to old, and what I’ll tell my children or grandchildren when they ask me what they are. Maybe I’ll tell them that I was a knife juggler. They’ll like that. …

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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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Imposter

May 15, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Bree A. Rolfe

Today: “Ms. Rolfe, are you dying?” This isn’t the first time a student has asked me this after I had a coughing fit in class. In fact, I get asked this all the time. Too often. And I’m used to it. But today, I am hanging on by a thread. I have trouble walking up […]

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Bitch-not-Witch

May 15, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Jay Merill

[fiction] I’m just appreciating what’s pleasing about Trent when it all goes wrong. He phones me, his voice less sweet and friendly than it was an hour ago. There’s a crackle of anxiety present now. “Den…” he says. After he’s spoken my name there is a sharp little silence. I break it with a sigh. […]

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The Things We Can’t Say: Mixed Media

May 15, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Mellissa Redman
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A Lesson in Translation

May 15, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Chen Li, translated by Elaine Wong

A sin of beauty is a toy forever: I transgress; I jumble up words, fumble for the right age, mislabel Keats for Yeats, bumble between the present tense and the past tense. For elegance, for beauty, for my inflexible desire, I dismiss faithfulness and disable meaning. I mistranslate flyable twilight as an unshakable rock in […]

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Inner City with Father

May 15, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Shahé Mankerian

In our last conversation, he sat
on a milk crate, held the unlit

cigarette like a fountain pen,
and kept tapping the filter against

his weak heart. …

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Selected Poems from Blackbird

May 14, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Diego Alfaro Palma, translated by Lucian Mattison

Gravedigger The song of the factory’s fans and the telephone that announces: life is so fragile like this state in which one writes. There’s a reason the trees shake at the bottom of this painting, as if somebody had opened a door through which the wind is expelled, house distorted by memory. But like a […]

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Flash Point

May 14, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Lauren Sarazen

My best friend is buying a house in Upstate New York with her boyfriend. A family friend expects her first child in eight days. I’m twenty-two, and I have never felt more alone. I. “For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly […]

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Excerpts from A Stone for Life, A Stone for Death: A Long Poem

May 14, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Shahram Sheydayi, translated by Lida Nosrati

1 The ogre is bad-tempered He throws a fit Hurling rotten stones Giant stale rocks, to be more precise The ogre wants fresh stones And the dream doesn’t leave him alone: I want stones Timely stones My exhaustion wants them Living stones Stones that break away from your seconds fall over me Stones that pour […]

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The Walt Longmire of IT Guys

May 14, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by John Meyers

[fiction] Kolarov started watching Longmire on Netflix last winter while engaging in half-hearted workouts on the bike trainer. The show has begun to own him. Kolarov is an IT guy, the dude you see in the office wearing a blue polo shirt and khaki pants, pushing a cart loaded with computers. That was before Longmire. […]

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The Pathetic Start of It All: Mixed Media

May 14, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Doug Smock
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The Blessed Bangle

May 13, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Rudy Ravindra

[fiction] A lady of leisure, Leela spent most of her time reading novels and literary magazines. She sat on the terrace, gazing at the white sailboats in the sapphire waters of Bay of Bengal, drying her long, lustrous hair in the bright sunshine, bantering with her sisters-in-law. Leela never went downstairs for breakfast until after […]

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Venezuela

May 13, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Laura Sobbott Ross

in the 1960s The name itself is a kingdom brambled over in exotics, where fish & birds read like orchids, and an oil-flat sea’s gone dull beside a land possessed of its own drumbeat—fist to heart, a howled & primal green. After all, Amazon sounds more tribal than rivered. Venezuela, its new language an assignation […]

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Faith Is What You Have: Reading Photographs with Flannery O’Connor

May 13, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Engram Wilkinson

On the day of my great-aunt Era Mae and great-uncle Alvin’s fiftieth wedding anniversary, I wore my stepfather’s striped, navy tie and—after stopping for breakfast on the drive through North Alabama—a small grease stain on my khaki pants. Over the air conditioner, my grandmother told me I should’ve put a napkin on my lap first. […]

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Ripen

May 12, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Elisabeth von Uhl

Tree branches sneak into my mouth errant like Christmas lights strung across a house in July, skies embrace and push — suffocate the world’s radiant lusciousness.  Leaves on the sidewalk thrum and this is where I want to share a bit of death every day, peeling strips of joy from branches that are about to […]

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

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How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Point Break & Top Gun Are More Than Homoerotic Action Movies

March 3, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Michaela Emerson
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Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

On Such a Full Sea Are We Now

March 17, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Jemma Leigh Roe
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The Russian Train

February 24, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cammy Thomas
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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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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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