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Bubble
By Angie Sijun Lou“This year so far, I had said, Hello, Goodbye, Do you have change for twenty dollars, Where is the bathroom, and I love you. I had meant every word.”
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Ernest Hemingway, Unlocked: The Sun Is Still Rising
By Hazel Byers“Everybody my age had written a novel and I was still having a difficult time writing a paragraph.”
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Their Utopia
By Brian Ma“I said that whatever happened in the chaos back then was just chaos, which meant there was no way to imagine if things had gone differently.”
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Turner Brooks’s Spatial Memories
By Alessandro TersigniBrooks examines buildings less as ends in themselves than as prisms for the human dramas they contain.
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She is good at curving
By Diane Seuss“if she’s playing she’s playing // living or some- / thing in between.”
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Poetry
Swallows’ Nest
By Tomoka Shibasaki“I’d almost forgotten why we were heading to Himeji Castle in the first place.”
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Dagger Mat
By Eka Kurniawan“The kids saw the scars on his fingers, that big slice on his pinkie, proof of his diligent practice morning, midday, afternoon, and night.”
