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Fiction
Or Something Like That

by Ann K. Ryles
“I’ll see you today,” Susan said to her baby in the shower, rubbing lather over her still flat belly. She hadn’t told anyone she talked to the baby. Not Marshall.
It was a secret. Between her and the baby. Shhhhhhh, baby, don't tell on Mommy. Especially not to Daddy, he already thinks I'm a wack job...
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Feature
Letters to Ray Bradbury

by Joelle Renstrom
I've wanted to write you a letter for a long time. I'm a teacher and I almost had my class write you letters when we were reading The Martian Chronicles . There are a few Douglas Spauldings in my class. A couple Clarices. They'd have talked your ear off...
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Poetry
Caryl Pagel
A short walk glance left to the riverbank/where dark grasses edge the water’s eddy/not frozen now....
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Crystal Hadidian
Tie together words—/bed sheets become rope/for a hasty back window escape./I am an Astronaut. It’s true....
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Carlomar Arcangel Daoana
The eyes do not have to open their watery vision in the poem which is its own field/The air snatches the distance between the seen and the equally seen....
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Changming Yuan
if the little mouse became/as boundless as the sky as it wishes/the sky would become/as free as a cloud...
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Translations: Daniel Khalastchi and Caryl Pagel
Meditations on an emergency: If you spend time with the poems or essays Caryl writes, you’ll see an attention to language/sound/form that many other writers avoid. In truth, writing in this way is scary...
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From the Archive
Once
by Stephen Dixon
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