- December 10, 2022
I see that I am a form in space, sitting and waiting. The red light as alive as my lungs and my kidneys. The car in front of me, the car beside me, the drivers and passengers behind their
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“If I had to describe it, it’s like a connection to a different voltage somewhere, where things happen around me that I’m not even aware of anymore because it’s such a focused, internal experience. External, too, because I’m very fussy about the environments I write in. Some people can write anywhere—I can’t. I need to have a certain solitude and quiet.”
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- November 23, 2022
She examined her hands meticulously like a bark beetle examines maple branches. A stone-eating politeness permeated her voice. As she spoke, the yachts in the bay, their sails folded, glittered in the sunlight– splinters in the body of an
- May 9, 2022
The first night in the city I saw the sticker of a skeleton and roses on the back window of a rust orange Nova, I think, and smelled the scent of jasmine wafting through the open windows of a
“Andy DeLamare tossed a blonde curl over her shoulder and preened at her reflection in the mirror. Grinning, she picked her hat up off the vanity and flipped it into the air before catching it on her head. She looked rather academic, if she was being honest with herself. Like she could walk into a university lecture and no one would think twice about whether or not she belonged. But today was not for playing a role. Today was her day off. “
Fiction by Jordyn McClary
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- May 13, 2022
I. Tess marks time with her daughter’s body: bones grow in cadence to the hourglass slip of sand grains after n overcast beach day Tess rinses soap suds and Sarasota sugar sand from her daughter’s skin Elah: the valley
- May 13, 2022
Would she know this place without apple orchards, bare vines crucifixed, with wires pulsing underground? Would her naked feet sear on the macadam even in late October light when he came for her daughter, who, some said, went all
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