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Amuse-Bouche

Our Amuse-Bouche series offers little bites once a month to keep you satiated between issues. Dig into a smorgasbord of genres every third Friday of the month!

Jemma Leigh Roe Headshot

On Such a Full Sea Are We Now

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

At the beach house, Mama cooked whole crabs alive.

Through the steam, we watched them slowly seize up

and stiffen like the dead fish that washed ashore

the day you cut your foot on shattered glass.

When sand stuck to your weeping wound, I couldn’t clean it

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Cammy Thomas Headshot

The Russian Train

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

the Russian train runs on only time

bones come from its exhaust pipe

we twirl our black umbrellas

and there is no dream

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Still Life

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

You’re waiting tables in Gunnison;

Grand Junction. Fruita is blood-orange dark.

Your hands are covered with silt, dry from the hard water

as you scale the Book Cliff mountains. No matter what

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Koiter Headshot

Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli

“I wish I could say I had a strategy. I clung to poetry like a lifeline in my grief, and what got written, got written. I will say that, early on in the grieving process that followed my boyfriend’s suicide, I wrote a lot of catalog poems. Writing in lists at that stage makes sense.” – Jenn Koiter

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Alyson Mosquera Dutemple headshot

Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple

When the apocalypse comes, I won’t be allowed to have Cheerios anymore. Not because at the end of the world, there will be no breakfast cereal, but because if the world doesn’t end, my sister actually thinks there will still be beds to make and carpets to vacuum, and she says she’s tired of stepping on the little O’s that I just can’t seem to keep in my bowl.

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Head Portrait for Pollen

Guinea Pigs

September 26, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / K.A. Polzin

As a child, my oldest sister kept a cage of guinea pigs in the garage, and she’d made a deal with the produce manager at the Lucky down the street—well not really a deal; he just gave her all the expired lettuce, which she fed to them. On weekends, she took them out of their cage and let them run around on the lawn…

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Ballet shoes on hangar

The Paradox of Bad

August 22, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Bella Santos

A paradox is something that contradicts itself. It seems that all human beings are a paradox within themselves. People hold on to their own moral sense of right and wrong, yet go against it every day. This pattern unleashes us to many different paradoxes of human behavior. We see this loop show itself in many aspects of life, such as defense mechanisms, hypocrisy, and the commonly known paradox of choice.

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Hands holding cell phone light background

The Cannibal Replies to Your Text

August 15, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Aimee Lowenstern

It must have been hard, growing up with transparent skin,

when even then, no one wanted to look at your still-beating heart,

your outstanding insides

rotting in rainbow colors.

Everyone else was getting X-rays

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Annie Marhefka Headshot

My Mother’s Hands

August 8, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Annie Marhefka

When she died, they were buttery smooth and still, and buried under mine, palms pressed flat against dry, cotton hospital sheets. I suffocated them with my grief, pressing the fear of going on living without her into the skin, into the stiffness of the bed. When she entered the hospital just days before, they had been trembling…

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Megan Pack headshot

Defy Gravity

August 1, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Megan Peck

Clare is alone in the hotel swimming pool when the boy and girl appear, hand-in-hand, at the door in the tall perimeter gate protecting the pool and its authorized users from everyone else.

The boy speaks first–he’s a man, really, somewhere in his mid-twenties, sandy-haired and hefty-jawed, a wad of gum stuck in his cheek.

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Karen Poppy Headshot

Little Shrimp

July 25, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Karen Poppy

An infant, I startle, flinch, and boom

When she touches me. Burning pistol,

Little shrimp.

She says, years later,

“It only takes one bad shrimp

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Megan Giddings headshot

Litdish: On Writing Form, Style and Moving Through the Moments: 7 Questions for Author Megan Giddings

July 18, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli

I did a lot of research on human experimentation. I enrolled in several soft contact research studies because I did need to know two things: how it felt to be in a research study and what an ethical, by the book research study looked like. At the same time, I was reading a lot about how most of our knowledge about gynecology is based on deeply unethical methods.

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Trail in the forest grasses

The Key

July 18, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Dana Serea

Past the dry cornfields and cobblestone roads, surrounded by forests barren of leaves, lay the sleepy village of Lumbrow where rats scurried down the streets. A rumor about a mysterious key swirled in the village square and tangled in crooked branches. Supposedly, the key was buried in the dark woods, but no one in Lumbrow knew anything about it.

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Gray blanket and window with condensation

How I ensure nothing terrible ever happens to me again 

July 11, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Shannon Sullivan

I cut my life into small slices

And freeze them, to prevent them

From going bad like bread, or coffee.

With my life too, I keep my hand hovered

Over its railing, close enough to grab,

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Train tracks diverging, brown and white photo

Dunkirk

July 4, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / DM O'Connor

The journey south is always easier. A northern haul is cruel. See those trees leafing plastic shopping bags; that is how they see us. The soft gifted thin tents and sleeping bags. If lucky, a truck will stop, open a freezer gate, conduct us elsewhere, the fence will already be cut, the police baton will wave and not shatter as jackhammers may brick.

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clustered brown eggs

Eggs, No Basket

June 27, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche / Kelsi Long

scrambled. For weeks, I’ve been nursing a strange, unproductive, overwhelming urge to egg my abusive ex-boyfriend’s house. Strange because I am not usually one to waste food, especially on rotten people. Unproductive because revenge fantasies are only so cathartic, especially when you don’t intend to act them out. Overwhelming because, well. It’s all I think about.

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Book club gathering at a picnic table

The Revolution Began at Book Club

June 20, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche / Sari Fordham

The world was on fire and men were to blame. Not all men, of course. The
book club members said this reflexively, as though Marc still attended.
“Men aren’t empathetic enough,” Allison said and glanced at Joanna,
who may or may not have voted for Trump. There had been whispers.
Joanna leaned in, “You know who should be in charge? Women!”

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Walking on a journey at sunrise

A Letter to the Dead Grandmothers That Raised Us

June 13, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche / Levi J. Mericle

-For friends and for myself.

The tip of my pen leaks forgiveness.

Jotted spaces between lined pages, I seek your redemption.

My encapsulated words remind me, I swallow

memories like the Xanax you popped, and the whiskey you chugged to forget me.

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wooden mannequin and flowers

Histoire D’amour

June 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche / Robin Gow

Then, I glowed lattice and ladder.

A boddice of between. In the dark I left the ground.

My gender cutting holes in shadows. Portholes 

and gloryholes. Meeting selves on the other side.

Across an invented expanse, nothing arrived 

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Person alone in the window with ice

Ice

May 30, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Fiction / Valmic Shridhar Mukund

It was cold the night Faruq let Narmina go. The draft climbed over his bare legs, sank into his pores and frosted through his insides. He shivered as he sat at the edge of the bed. He bound his knees in his arms, tried to tie up his naked body so that it would disappear into itself and rid the world of its ugliness.

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Eye close up blue orange

Achromatopsia

May 23, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Robin Sinclair

Imagine a world in which removing your lover’s eye is normal.

You don’t come from this world, but at a house party in New Jersey, in an apartment across the street from an A & P, you meet someone who does. You’re sitting on someone’s bed, half-drunk and navigating a potential threesome, when they walk in, sunglasses on indoors at 11pm, holding a bottle of beer in a way that judges you.

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Girl gazing out of window white background

Which Half

May 18, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Claire Scott

Twenty three from you, my mother

half my body/mind

for sure my blue eyes

but not my right-handedness

which has made my life easier

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Lamp lit bookstore

Antigone in NYC

May 2, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Ann Pedone

I have always hated writing about myself

I’m not photogenic

And I am afraid that my horniness

Would get in the way

But this is where we’re at

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Black and White skateboard photo at skate park

Slackers Rule

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

They were in the car, Lee concentrating on pulling out of the driveway when Zack announced he was moving to California.

“All the best skaters are there.”

“Your family’s here.”

“I’ll visit. Once a year.”

“Ah, you’ve got it all figured out.”

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Ownership Records

March 28, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Lucy Zhang

Vic acts like the world is ending when he discovers my computer has been infected by malware that has deployed a Bitcoin miner to consume over 50% of my CPU and a size-able chunk of my electricity bill, but I shrug because I hardly notice my computer grinding to a halt, and even though I believe cryptocurrency and blockchain will only ever amount to vehicles of Ponzi profits and social harm

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Father and child fishing in the sunrise

As the Salmon Runs Grow Thin

March 21, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Leland Seese

Our daughter has put herself
in hospital again.

I spend the day beside her,
talking, laughing, abiding silence

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Modern Art colorful blue and yellow creatures, Walking in Time

Isolating The Apocalypse and The Unique Image

March 14, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Art / Peter Bardazzi

At the beginning of my professional career, after graduating Yale University’s School of Arts MFA program, my artists soul was torn between Flemish painting of the 15th-16th century and the ideas imbedded in the 20th century DADA art movement. Specifically I was drawn to the Apocalyptic visions of artists like Van Eyck, Bruegel and Bosch and simultaneously to the anti-art of Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia.

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Letters and photos and pen

You Always Signed Your Letters, “Love, Dad”

March 7, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Laura Sturza

Hi Dad, When you died, I figured there wasn’t any point in writing to you. But since the world broke down last year, everything has shifted, including how I want to communicate with you. I know it’s been a while since I last wrote to you. Yes, I know—15 years. You value precision. You were devout about following the news, but has it all been too much, or what?

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Christmas lights in snowy branches

there are christmas lights across the street

February 28, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / JoAnna Brooker

my neighbor drapes the strings the first weekday in december,
neon gold cords for inflatable mickey, santa, & snowman

melted simulacra until sunset when the front lawn descends
into a madness of bright blue         icicles,   rainbow garland

across the garage, pink orbs of love encircle a glittering present,

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Yellow, taupe, brown, white digital art of person drinking from canteen

Nameless

January 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2021 / T.j. Philippe

My art is mostly inspired by Haitian artists or memories of my country as well as the Impressionist era. You’ll find that most of my artwork is faceless because I associate them with my fading memories. I’ve always found it hard to remember faces and features. My other creations come to me in flashes or my dreams.

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

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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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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