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It’s Good For You Because It Comes Out Of Your Own Body

Mariah Kreutter -

The first time I went to the clinic it was dark out. The first time I went to the clinic my sister thought I was...

Modern Science

Felix Lecocq -

The miracles are brought to the zoo in three black crates held aloft by three forklifts. The crates are settled on a patch of...

Trapunto

Callum Angus -

The first injection I ever did was in a sheep’s rump. A friend of my mother’s had a flock whose wool she sheared and...

Reappraisal

Claudia Ross -

There were four tall men sent to complete the reappraisal. One of them, Devin, was the lawyer—we’d met before, five years ago, at the...

Black Ribbons, Black Water, Black Sky

Piper Gourley -

A week after Jack’s decapitation, Peter drove Jack’s old truck through the San Fernando Valley and straight into the Los Angeles River. Jack’s truck...

Summer

Anisha Bhaduri -

The summer I turned nine, I spent with my grandparents. Thin and trusting, nails bitten down to the nub, hair so dry it could...

The Missing Pieces

Stacey Resnikoff -

Elodie The abutter never entered my mind. The house was a good deal. It went on the market on Memorial Day weekend—a motivated seller with...

Eartha Kitt

Alex Higley -

The difference between camp and kitsch is that camp knows death and kitsch doesn’t. Don’t laugh. People can be sorted into these two teams...

Homecoming

Joshua Garcia -

At the age of thirty, you decide to go home because the circumstances of your life allow you to do so, and like everyone...

Sisyphus

Alyssa Northrop -

After graduating from college, Henry found a job in Stuttgart, a city whose industries had been updated, in German fashion, to combat the onset...