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Our Children Would Not Kill Us

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer -

I don’t want to give the impression that I was special; yet this was an extraordinary time in my life; I was a wreck,...

The Breast And Brian Franca

Lauren Bride -

You were an early bloomer. Let’s go with that one. Yes, you had breasts when you were still undressing a Barbie doll to examine...

The Only Detail That Matters

Stacey May Fowles -

One In our fifth roadside motel room Alice is standing in front of the mirror examining her face carefully. She is wearing nothing more than...

Gluten

Max Smith -

I stop eating gluten. I read labels on packages at the supermarket. Standing for too long in narrow aisles, my eyes squinting at lists...

In Christ there Is No East or West

Derek Weiler -

She said: “If someone was getting married it would be important enough, wouldn’t it? This is the closest thing to a wedding Francis is...

Monkfish

Laura Boudreau -

Next to Victor is Amelia, who is worried that it still looks like she has pissed her pants. When she arrived at Kevin and...

Tell Me. Why Does He Have To Have a Head?

Eva Moran -

This all started when Niall grilled me about which athletes have the best bodies. “Fucking fighters,” he said. And contemplating his decorated amateur boxer bod and...

Brighton, Where Are You?

Matthew Rader -

Brighton, where are you? Palmer. It had been etched into the back of the stall door with some kind of corrosive and then, in...

For W.W.

Sean Dixon -

Have you ever had that thing happen where you go to sleep in a bed and you’re asleep for awhile and then you wake...