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World Peace Now

Lydia Conklin -

Logan walks up East Wash and joins the masses protesting Scott Walker’s anti-union bill. She wears the University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants’ Association t-shirt...

Playing

Carolyn Ten Eyck -

The night after our first kiss, my band played covers for hours in the campus bar. It was packed, humid in the way a...

Glazer Ball, Gym Class, a Locker Room, and a Bathroom

Davon Loeb -

At Indian Springs Memorial, Mr. Glazer had been a gym teacher for over twenty years. He might have been in his fifties but maybe...

Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella

Charlie Markbreiter -

Excerpted from Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella, out from Kenning Editions on 11/1, and available for pre-order here. S1E16: “All About My Brother” Nate’s POV The first time...

Love Song

Melissa Ximena Golebiowski -

“Of course the cleanest room in my parents’ house is my dead sister’s,” Henry says. The gold metal threshold separates the hallway and her...

(Partheno)Genesis

Mariah Rigg -

Do you remember how it begins? (Maybe:) You are four years old, lying on a cobblestoned floor. It is New Years. Outside, your mother is...

Rescue Strategy

Elizabeth Fergason -

Their marriage counselor was a collector. The obligatory African masks yes, but in addition, life-sized wooden statues of ebony warriors, enormous clay urns, exotic...

Youth Group

Christian Winn -

On some hot-ass Saturday afternoons we steal a bottle of Jenny’s mom’s rum, spike Mountain Dew Big Gulps, march to the 8th Street parking...

the rapids

Tariq Shah -

When we tried to pay for parking at the gate, the machine wouldn’t let us go. It refused to read mom’s credit card, so...

Otke Notive

Will Niedmann -

My body carries my mind. A wooden spoon, an egg. I live with four men in Otke Notive. Our apartment is a thin hallway...