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Yearly Archives: 2016

The Blood-Sex Iconostasis

Night falls over town. The fog doesn’t recede. Sodium lights flicker to life. Some hold steady; others strobe on and off in lugubrious, neurotic cycles....

Let Me Take You to Olive Garden

I. The year is 2004. I just got my ears pierced! Reese is wearing eight million bracelets and boots that come up past her knees,...

Mission

There is an app that shows you where the Appolina is, how fast it is going, what the temperature is outside the pressurized doors, how...

Small Dinosaur

How does she get into my kitchen at seven a.m., squeezing frosting on my boy's toast? In college she hardly ever ate, except...

That Won’t Be Necessary

Sara Schaff's debut collection, Say Something Nice About Me, is available from Augury Books and can be ordered here Before the summer crew painted...

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Catch and Release

1. Maisie’s on the verge of something spectacular. This, we know—and not because the nanosecond upticks of her gait, pulse, blinks, aerobic functions, shuddering fast-twitch muscles are all textbook, or...

Save the Cat

This summer, everyone is drinking Aperol spritzes, and Simon orders one now. I would love an Aperol spritz, he says to the waitress, emphasizing that word—love—in a manner he...

Local Distance

A leucistic moose, a pearled animal with starch-white fur and black eyes, dies to a kia soul going 79 on an upstate rural road. The kia soul dies too—one...