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Language and Power by Lucy Van Der Reis

How do languages and names play a role in cultural perspectives and power? It would be incredible and strange if…

5 years ago

To A New Teacher by Damian Gessel

They will come in with their chins lowered, with their eyes lowered, with their mouths in straight lines of apathy…

5 years ago

Surface Tension by Ray Scanlon

The man treats us to a rolling simian strut along the commuter rail platform, lacking only a pack of cigarettes…

5 years ago

Diagnosed with Borderline by Anna

Around the age of twelve, death started to seem like the best plan B. If anything went wrong, if ever…

6 years ago

Thirty-three Nights by Devorah Uriel

They are back.  Raw and bloody, as if freshly torn from me, they hide their eyes and scurry into the…

6 years ago

Tierra Caliente by Robert Joe Stout

An ex-Hollywood stunt man visiting La Paz in Baja California Sur insisted, “The locals lied to me. They said that…

6 years ago

Belly of the Beast by Sherri Harvey

As I watch the chock-full, no-seats-for-standby-customers plane I was supposed to be on take off from the window of gate…

6 years ago

The Dime by Beulah Amsterdam

Early one summer morning Mama announced, “You must go to the Welfare office.” I stopped eating cornflakes and looked away…

6 years ago

The Cost of Light by Laura Eppinger

What is it about the complicated legacy of Thomas Edison, inventor, savage businessman, bitter rival that keeps us interested? Perhaps…

7 years ago

The Gunslinger by Gregory T. Janetka

It was our five-month anniversary, an accomplishment for us both. I woke up with a pain in my gut that…

7 years ago

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