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心太软: [heart, too tender]

Star Su -

心太软 That day Aba smuggled home the answers to the gaokao, Ama reminded him that he was a nobody at the Department of Education. As...

Halloween

Myles Zavelo -

1. Can majorly complicate things. Last night was no exception. My knees were no exception. My knees were shaking. I was shaking. Things were...

I Saw A Wounded Eagle Woman Eating Clouds

Olga García Echeverría -

for tatiana de la tierra I’m watching the nurse clean Wounded Eagle Woman’s arm. The gash, which extends from her armpit down to the bend...

Herbs

Ysabelle Cheung -

A body, a rock, a towel, a plastic starfish, wet sand on her calves: she catalogues these things slowly. God, I’m old she thinks to...

No One Left to Come Looking For You

Sam Lipsyte -

Excerpted from Sam Lipsyte's No One Left to Come Looking For You, out now from Simon & Schuster. ◆ The Earl told me that Our Lady...

Vacancy

Andrea Jurjević -

The typing in the back room thundered pompously. I met Mona in this exchange office in St. Vitus eighteen months ago. I had just...

First Base at The Cheesecake Factory

Michelle Gurule -

Be aggressive. Be patient. Set your expectations high, but not too high. It was December 2015. I was twenty-four years old, sitting in the...

Bodies of Water

Rachel Calnek-Sugin -

The day we met, we died. I have to start there. Or Flora said she died, and I said, Me too. Pretty much whatever...

Private Viewing Mode

Nabeel Chollampat -

“I just think it’s best,” Alana said, convincingly, “if all companies retired their consumption of single-use plastics.”Damn. She got to that one first. She...

Artist Alley

Michael Magnes -

The convention center was full of the Sunday blues on the last day of Rose City Comic-Con. Saturday night bar-con engulfed comic industry professionals...