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Vol. 53 Issue 1
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Sweet Little Things
By Brent Ameneyro They are talking to their dog, just sweet little things like good boy, who’s a good boy? Footsteps in the morning dark, gentle…
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The Arrival
By Sara Mirza Dad neglected to tell me he was bringing home a new wife. She was the daughter of a family friend, and once…
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Motorcycle Pope
By Adam Straus The Pope visits me in a dream. He is riding a motorcycle. I know immediately that he is the Pope, even though…
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Rapid Cycling
By Shane Dunn The Veteran is on a bus in Chicago wearing greens and camo, a bag of luggage on the seat beside him. He…
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Snow Globes
By Marit Grøtta, translated by John Durham Peters Walter Benjamin collected snow globes—miniature worlds under a vault of glass or plastic where an eternal winter…
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from Bloodlust: A Memoir
By Libby Kurz Sleep while the baby sleeps. This is what Lt. Col. Jackson used to say during our long weekend shifts together. The baby,…
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Flying Superman Into Sarajevo
By Laura Joyce-Hubbard To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true. —Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried…