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Blindness Pattern

Adrienne Chung -

>> There is a mathematical formula { R = e – t/s } which plots the erosion...

Lawn Enforcement

Monmita Chakrabarti -

Baba comes back to Dublin, Ohio from his two-week trip to Kolkata on a sunny Saturday afternoon. After hugging his family and taking his...

The Immortal

David Aloi -

It struck Edward in the middle of his follow-up prostate exam—Dr. Beller’s gloved fingers searching his rectum like one might search for the perfect...

The Horowitz Compromise

Sofia Ergas Groopman -

I. Paul and I are arguing about the penis of our unborn son. “It’s genital mutilation!” he says to the open refrigerator, removes a large container...

is any1 a christian????

Emma Ensley -

It seemed like everyone in Tess’s tiny town was obsessed with God. All of the kids in her middle school were in the same...

Little Do the Fires Grow

J. Marcelo Borromeo -

Darren can hear the sound of footfalls in the next room. They must be his father’s—brisk, decisive. Every step comes down with the force...

What Will You Do Today to Transform Your Life?

Jacquelyn Stolos -

First Potato Did you know that the first potato ever grown in what would later become the United States of America was grown in...

Critique My

Kathleen Heil -

My friend Puma had an opening the other day for her solo exhibition at a gallery in Mitte, Berlin. It has become a kind...

Another Opening

Chase Burke -

Dad was dead, that’s the start. The story is this: My brother James and I were visiting our falling-apart father at his home in Birmingham, Alabama,...

The Featherweight

Amanda Oliver -

A bird with one gnarled leg and foot came to visit my bird feeder every morning last February. I was getting up around five...