Logical Preposition A. J. Bermudez __________ I am often apologizing to my international students.Why, they want to know, are we in a classroom, at a university, on a campus?Why in a chair, at a desk, on the board? What is it to be near / below / beyond / apart…
Read MoreFoods of All Nations Shalmi Barman __________ November 6th, 2024 I never feel so expertly from hereas in the dairy aisle at 8 AM,pajama-clad, insouciantly unwashed,comparing flavored yogurts. Empires fallupon the price of eggs while we delay,exchanging greetings by the sourdoughas neighbors should. And have you heard the news?The soup…
Read MoreCabin Fever*** Edward Baranosky __________ 1In a snowstorm the last certaintiesDisappear, clinging to the pale moonrise, The edges of fir, spruce, and birchBlending with the lost horizon– The mackerel sky closes in,Where imagination is your only confidante And dreams have found your epitaph,The petrified light in winter silence. 2You found…
Read MoreNo Place to Belong Mohamed Morshed __________ I was in one of those minibuses that looked like giant rats, sitting in the passenger seat, with the two back rows empty, speeding down one of Aden’s coastal roads toward a refugee camp. The Arabian Sea stretched far into the horizon cutting…
Read MoreTrim the Cauliflower Rhys Ramsay __________ My father’s English is broken, which suits him just fine. He’s never been one for conversation, which can be nice, for a while—he listens, and not just to reply like some do. Between us, we speak only in our mother tongue. Like a secret…
Read MoreHow 아빠 Learned English Gina Kim Kotinek __________ He told me while we nursed his favorite scotch on the porch. Rocking in our chairs. Basking in the dusk. Seeing each other under starlight. I asked him what my first word was, not because I didn’t know, but because I liked…
Read MoreFly Away Maryah Converse __________ The most kites flown simultaneously is 12,350 and was achieved by children of the GazaStrip at an event organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at Al-Wahabeach, Gaza Strip, on 28 July 2011.– Guiness Book of World Records Leaning against the wall of…
Read MoreRuchi Acharya __________ Buried Emotions (a soliloquy) “Is this what it feels like? When rainy, dark, secluded clouds become the roof and dreadedleaves make the floor.”That’s what gyrated in my head as my unaware feet stumbled in the cemetery in the searchof a particular gravestone.“I exist as a hushed corner…
Read MoreShe began the apocalypse Brianna Condon __________ __________ Brianna Condon was born and raised in the snow drifts of rural Minnesota. When she isn’t writing, Brianna enjoys tapping for mana, tending to her houseplants, and listening to podcasts. She has been previously published in Tales From the Kitchen, The Short…
Read MoreNormal Makena Metz __________ Everything returns to stasisin time. Life goes on, the sun risesand falls, and I am lostin a sea of normal. Eat dinner, go to sleep, wake up, walk the dog.Normal is uncomfortable, unnatural.After everything- I don’t want tohave to go on. No one told me that…
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