We are proud to present

Issue Two

of No Contact

Black Lives Matter
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Black Lives Matter

We know that there are more important goals and events to focus on right now, which is why we are advocating any reader to first donate to a fund linked here, or support one of the linked (or your own local) Black-owned businesses, before reading the rest of the issue.

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Watercolor Girls
Jemimah Wei Jemimah Wei

Watercolor Girls

by Jemimah Wei

I like my watercolor girls to leave their stains on me. My watercolor girls now all live in bubbles, seeped in thick art paper, sometimes cupped in frames on the walls, or pressed into photo albums.

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To Know Yourself
Ariel Schleicher Ariel Schleicher

To Know Yourself

by Ariel Schleicher

To Know Yourself is a comfortable distraction.

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Lucy
Nathaniel Berry Nathaniel Berry

Lucy

by Nathaniel Berry

I suspect that every town in the world has places like these: little doorways into tranquil darkness, places you can only find when you’re young, and can’t ever quite go back to in waking life.

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Scraps
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Scraps

by Amy Kalbun

Six feet: about the length of a hockey stick, or three Canadian geese in a row. If I was in New York, I would turn this into a joke—Canadian analogies right on brand—to seem cool and self-reflexive and gently patronizing of my home city.

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Shaky Allies
Gauraa Shekhar Gauraa Shekhar

Shaky Allies

by Gauraa Shekhar

There’s a spider trailing the bottom of the bathtub. It’s small and spindly, and on some sort of secret mission completely invisible to me.

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Jugableach: As Seen on TV!
Elliot Alpern Elliot Alpern

Jugableach: As Seen on TV!

by Elliot Alpern

Hi, Elliot Alpern here with Jugableach, the one-stop solution for maybe-sanitizing the dangerous world around you!

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