ISSUE No. 492
An Amateur Apache Wrestles with America
An excerpt from "Go Home, Ricky!" by Gene Kwak, recommended by Jean Kyoung Frazier
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Home is a Trip You Can’t Ever Take Again
"These Golden Cities" by K. David Wade, recommended by Electric Literature
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Even I Don’t Know Why I’m at This Baptism
"Godfather" from The Boundaries of Their Dwelling by Blake Sanz, recommended by Clare Beams
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Improvisational Parenting in Rural Oklahoma
"Shells I" by Savannah Johnston, recommended by Erika T. Wurth
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What She Heard in a Room Without Sound
"Pink Noise," prose by Julia LoFaso
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I Am Waiting To Be Built
"Missense” and “Iteration," a poetry debut by high school student Elane Kim
Oct 11 - Elane Kim
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The Day I Lost My Face
"Blanks," a short story by Suzie Eckl
Oct 4 - Suzie Eckl
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I Love to Hate My Gilmore Girls Obsession
"No Chocolate Ice Cream in Stars Hollow" and "For God So Loved the WAP," two poems by Khalisa Rae
Sep 27 - Khalisa Rae
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"aila kageyama," flash fiction by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
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"Vanessa Frontin: Volunteer Musician," an excerpt from An Ideal Presence, by Argentinian author Eduardo Berti
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