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“Lucky Bruce” Meets “The Subversive”

by Gary Lippman

What a Bruce Jay Friedman story from sixty years ago tells us about contemporary America and our own selves.

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Maui

by Tara Isabel Zambrano

When you frantically adjust the focus distance and all you see a blur of ocean.

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American Standard

by S. S. Mandani

We time machine through the uncut grass, see the soil; witness the decomposition of our ancestors’ bodies.

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Among Their Skin

by Tommy Dean

Come with us, we demanded, we begged, we hedged, but they loped off together, arm in arm, looking back with cruel smiles, knowing at once that we were too afraid to follow.

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Attachments;

by Aaron Burch

or, A Short Essay About Email That Turned into a Metaphor for Any Number of Things (see: Divorce, Family, Writing, Regret, ______ (Fill in Your Own Blank))