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|  ENORMOUS
By Jean-Michele Gregory
I
look at these rail-thin men and wonder, how could I lay in bed
next to something as small as that? |
LOST
ON COLFAX AVENUE
By John Calderazzo
He stops, letting
his cane rest on the cracked sidewalk. |
S_
_T
By Janis Butler Holm
Are guilty pleasures
pleasures if you take away the guilt? |
SCREAM
By Joel Peckham Jr.
Something
is wrong. I am lying on the ice. |
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BOOK
REVIEW ESSAYS
By Kelley Evans, Todd Davis, and Debbie
Hagan
The
furtive smiles of pregnant women, the inescapable mother-daughter
bond, and the Swartzentruber Amish: essay/reviews of Lia Purpura's
On Looking, Kathryn Harrison's The Mother Knot,
and Joe Mackall's Plain Secrets.
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SOMETHING
ONCE LEARNED
By Michael Copperman
It was always
the same fight: I talked down to her, I was distant; she sold coke,
she liked being ogled for cash. |
FOUR
MENUS
By Sheila Squillante
Sundays are for mundane tomato sauce stirred through with thyme
and oregano and worship for the sensual world. |
PROSELEGY
AND CODA
By Gary Presley
One
breath. Ragged. Flutter. Silence. Space. Another breath. Rattle.
Jaw flap-heave. |
TOMMY
By Kelly Ruth Winter
When Tommy is
in sixth grade and I am in third, he lights his house on fire and
tries to kill himself with a pair of scissors. |
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CRAFT
ESSAYS
By Brian Goedde and Dustin Michael
Goedde
explains the similarities between translation and the "source
text" we use to write nonfiction essays, while Michael helps
undergraduate writers understand why creative nonfiction might
actually be the perfect format for weird, jacked-up stories. |
SOUNDTRACK
By Lisa Groen Braner
As
I drive home from the hospital, Mary Chapin Carpenter sings about
trouble, sorrow, and choosing to fly. |
JACKPOT
Debra S. Levy
Soon
I would hear my mother’s voice – low, nasal, reassuring – reaching
across the distance. |
From the Book What
Becomes You
A
WONDERFUL LIFE
By Aaron Raz Link
When
I changed my name, the first person I told was my cousin, the clown.
The second person I told was my barber. |
