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By Anuk Arudpragasam“From there the situation would quickly escalate, both of them bringing up recent affronts or humiliations, branching out to injuries from further back in time, wounds of increasingly ancient provenance coming to light.”
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Making of a Poem: Eugene Ostashevsky on “Falling Sonnet XI”
By Eugene Ostashevsky“For me, art lies in verbal connections.”
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By Yongyu Chen“I took the pill of estradiol. My feet hurt.”
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Poetry
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An Account of the Catastrophe at the Flower Show
By Tom Crewe“My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.”
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Auras
By Anne CollierThe images in Auras were taken between 2003 and 2004 at a downtown Oakland psychic shop.
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After the Haiku Period
By Joy Williams“The twins had long harbored the desire to murder their father and make the modest point that greed and desecration do not always go unpunished.”
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Fiction
Saying Nothing Nicely
By Zans Brady Krohn“Until now, I’d hardly believed that they could think, let alone create and then conceal elaborate lies about my life and my character.”
