YOU ARE A SAD T-REX OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Jesse HilsonOctober 9, 2019

In a parallel dimension I’ve broken everybody’s heart by killing myself or dying of a drug overdose on that brown couch that one time. But can you s...

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It Takes Two and a Half Millennials

Charlotte SeleyOctober 8, 2019

The Baby Boomers are facing extinction and no longer buying Mother's Day gifts for their own mothers. My mother's mother is dead and no one will ever b...

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The Town Hero Plugs the Hole in the Dam

Dylan LoringOctober 3, 2019

The town hero plugs the hole in the dam with her finger.  An hour passes, then sweat drips down her eyebrows. The only mosquito for miles bites her for...

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Naraka.logic

Dylan SondermanOctober 3, 2019

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” - Rabindranath Tagore   Mu logic-violation trial abusive ju...

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A. E. Housman

Michael MungielloSeptember 9, 2019

Terrence this is stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid ...

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Shopping for God

Imran KhanAugust 28, 2019

This could be my last magic trick - choosing a wardrobe for God from the shit human minds alone could create, Do we really need a professional shopper to pr...

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Rented Spaces

Katherine DeGilioAugust 21, 2019

In sweet June sublets I left lipstick marks on tender shoulders, painting rented spaces red, the stain lasted but a single solstice. When I looked up during...

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MY BROTHER LOVED STEPHEN KING

Betsy HoustenAugust 21, 2019

Books lined his shelves, worn mass-market spines of one-word titles, Carrie and Christine and Misery, It with its thumb-soft cover of a paper boat nosing in...

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Parthenogenesis

Victoria NordlundAugust 16, 2019

As I watch Love Island, as I partake in my Rosé and Cheez-Its, as my daughter scrolls through her newsfeed, as she tells me she can't believe that I watch t...

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New Hampshire has an opioid problem

Danielle ShorrJuly 13, 2019

It takes 10 minutes in front of the urn  to realize what it is; the gravel of her unbody in a pink casing she might have picked  out herself. There is no vie...

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I Attract People with White Savior Complexes

Delvon T. MattinglyJune 24, 2019

I never intend to dismiss true philanthropic work, but to the people who believe saving is necessary: Trust me, it is not. To them, I am civilized, a cont...

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Witchcraft

Andrew HamiltonJune 21, 2019

You are the voice of Stevie Nicks, and I am Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar chords strumming Rhiannon out of the coffin in your ribcage. Copper wire luring Sale...

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Superstition

Courtney CookJune 5, 2019

I bought a book of poetry titled depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog and I wanted to revise it, change ‘depression’ to ‘life’. I think about...

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Departure from the Act in Itself

Spencer FolkinsJune 4, 2019

Mechanical. You know it, let it know yourself, but neither puts thought into action. You call it a departure from the act in itself. You call it [insert circu...

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every institution was nicknamed perfection

Graham IrvinJune 4, 2019

a man-shaped tree in the distant woods asked which way do you live there was an embankment by his window where i inhaled the dark i wanted to be buried in...

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Unsolved/Solved

Naadeyah HaseebJune 4, 2019

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Wow Bob Wow

Juliet Cook and j/j hastainMay 10, 2019

Semi-see-through tights might need to be eliminated from your leg repertoire if you hope to get into the opera without paying. In this theater, fishnet st...

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reality, in bloom.

Annette CovrigaruMay 10, 2019

with this chest unviable, & this bite unclenched, i cinch my innards & threaten to strangle my spirit.         &nb...

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Ape-Like

Courtney CookApril 4, 2019

lines in italics written by Josh Olivier   We sit stoned on the couch, our feet sweaty and outstretched. The smell of them in the air. You read...

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Ode to My Inbox at 1,414 E-Mails

Chloe N. ClarkMarch 28, 2019

I get a hundred e-mails a day that have nothing to do with my life—they’re for things I might buy but haven’t, places I could go but most likely will not ...

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The wildflowers grow in river patterns in every field we pass

Carmen E. BradyMarch 21, 2019

and I’m too embarrassed to ask why or admit my lingering ignorance of the plains of which parts are coincidence and which purpose Shouldn’t I kno...

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hibachi night

Mikaela GranthamMarch 21, 2019

we watched a guy build a volcano from an onion. this seems to be going well, i thought. turns out, i actually do like sake. we watched a guy make fire by lighti...

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ALTAR

Michael Wayne HamptonMarch 19, 2019

Why do you return to the gravesite   after strands of words read wrong draw circle around your feet     After the stone has been rolled away? and nothing found ...

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Days Fly By

Frank G. KariorisMarch 13, 2019

The days that just fly by are the best and worst. What happens in them? Where did they go? For the most part I would say that to the largest degree these ar...

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Heavy vein connecting my brain and stomach

Nathan CainesMarch 13, 2019

God damn. God damn. God damn. I sink beneath the hands in surrender Obliteration pleasure In the miasma of winter Things look binary And all my n...

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VIBRATO

Lauren SaxonMarch 13, 2019

We spent the night performing blood transfusions pumping alcohol into each other’s veins to displace the sadness Drunk enough to grow, but not drunk enough ...

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Heavy vein connecting my brain and stomach

Nathan CainesFebruary 15, 2019

God damn. God damn. God damn. I sink beneath the hands in surrender Obliteration pleasure In the miasma of winter Things look binary And all my nerves are ...

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alchemy: an introduction

Lawrence Lorraine MullenFebruary 14, 2019

after Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist   liberal arts colleges should let you try your hand at alchemy a humanity of the hard sciences   transmu...

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The Troxler Effect

Victoria NordlundFebruary 13, 2019

In 1804, Ignaz Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem t...

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Balloon

Rachel ChenFebruary 12, 2019

mascara doesn’t drip down your cheeks / you can’t even have this / an accepted expression of sadness / tears won’t come / they take effort / breath / breath / b...

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