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Four Fables

Alex Wells Shapiro For Alaina Getzenberg, Charlotte Observer Reporter __________ An Ekphrastic Fable about Construction Workers’ Breakless 8 Hour Effort to Remove a Racist Owner Strapped under the pits, bronzed Jerry Richardson flies away, sloppily offering a football by the nose to passerbys pausing at the spectacle like Jesus’s limp…

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Concussion

Concussion Zachary Hughes __________ The weight sits just above, just behind my eyes, Not throbbing or jabbing at me sharply— It just pulls—makes my eyes and head want to sink down— If someone told you to hit your head against the wall over and over, Would you do it? What…

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With the Intent

With the Intent Pablo Piñero Stillmann __________ Things were dicey between her & the boyfriend. I was, I guess, “the other man,” even if I didn’t much feel like one. An evening after wasted hours of pre-season football, the woman took me to a party at her cousin’s place. I…

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Tough Call

Tough Call Dave Malone __________ When my father reffed high school football games, he kept a mental log of epithets the fans yelled and shared the best over Schlitz with his newspaper buddies on our patio. It was mostly laughs except for the occasional telling after a six-pack of the…

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All Football, Dec ’20

All Football: Dec ’20 Editor: Chris Lowe Letter from the Editor by Chris Lowe Fiction “Hash Marked” by Jordan Escobar “The Unexpected Dryness of a Lemon Poppy Scone” by Jacob Ginsberg “Mascot” by Beth McMurray Four Fables by Alex Wells Shapiro Poetry “Double-Sonnet in Race” by Prince Bush Four Poems…

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