Cover art by the absurdly talented Eliza Stein. She has art prints and cards for sale in her shop. THE LOVESICK SUN / LENA ANDERSSON MY SON, MY MOON / NATHANIEL SVERLOW WHEN MY HUSBAND FLIES AWAY FOR WORK / KELLY JONES BEING
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Polar bears like to go dancing in the shallowest bend of the Biekenfau River. They splash gaily in the rocks. They wave colored flags on wooden sticks. They wear coral tutus and bang on tambourines. The bears come to dance at night
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my son lets me sleep two or three hours at a time and that’s just enough for the body to function but not nearly enough for the spirit I’m trying though it’s all I can do now that he’s here to try
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I imagine the worst things happening in air. When he texts me that the plane had to land because it was leaking he is not afraid – he doesn’t realize this is my nightmare made real. I do not fear monsters or
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You were baking shrimp. It was evening in Brooklyn in late October. Yellow leaves were falling off of trees and smacking the bay window. Your mother had just died. Pete was gone, too; had been gone. The oven dinged. You checked your
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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us… ~Gene Wolfe I wasn’t afraid when I first saw you— I just felt bad, thinking you must have the worst real estate agent in history to end up wedged
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The days were so hot that, even late at night, the people of Popadillo had to wear thick-soled shoes to keep their feet from being burned by the ground that refused to release the day’s searing heat. “It’s never been this hot,”
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The house muttered secrets in seven languages as it slept, creaking and sighing deep in the night shifting on its bed of brick pillars four feet above the black earth, a memory of the river’s visits now a mile away and tamed
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This is a difficult tale, but I will try to tell it clearly. There was once a land in which every person had to remain in their own home from birth until death, due to a lethal aversion to crossing the threshold
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