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Heartland

Celeste Sea
My student loan service provider is Heartland ECSI, but I call them Heartland for short. They’d started writing to me after graduation. We have been trying to r...
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minerva

Nolan Perla-Ward
You were obsessed with antiquity and aliens. "In rain, in sun, in dust" you said, "in eternity only these two exist." I didn't know what to think but I followed...
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Strike Colors

Richard Leise
The constant focus on cancer and its treatment is overwhelming.  Sometimes you just need a break.  At Endwell Hospital’s Dorothy Peterse Patient Recreation Cent...
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Your Sunday Best

T.L. States
You were TDY in Kuwait last summer. Should have come home in the middle of September, but then 9/11 happened. Stuck in the desert for five more months. Now, eve...
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Dream Story

Tim Frank
Daniel led a dreary life, entering data into a computer at a small publishing company and coming home to a mother who suffered from a serious form of dementia, ...
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The Park

Nadya Agrawal
She is staring at my dog taking a shit. I can see her lip curling as she looks on, assessing the damage, the viscosity, and fall speed. I watch her while she ga...
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Opening

Jason Arias
Rachel is wearing herring bone patterned red and yellow yoga pants, a black t-shirt with Dolly Parton’s smiling face on it, and a faded headband (the kind Richa...
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Food Pyramid

Greg Tebbano
Where we work is not a co-op. Privately owned, we are taught to say. All of us owned privately for this wage or that salary, a number we hide like an embarrassi...
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Digital burnout

Selena Cotte
It was a mindless Thursday, and every object had been shouting at Petunia: “Find purpose,” “Do something more with your life.” She couldn’t sit down for two min...
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Keeping Warm

Logan Cox
Sweet pea, put on your coat, it’s cold out.” “Cold? How cold?” “It’s 28 degrees.” My daughter looked at me, confused. I rolled my eyes at myself for th...
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The Town

Keegan Swenson
When we arrived in the town everyone looked at us like we were little objects they could tame with their eyes. In those days, we craved approval like a dog want...
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Tulips

Rhiannon Jones
Elise hadn’t known Dylan well enough to call him a friend, exactly, but in the strange summer between the end of exams and Results Day, she had sometimes seen D...
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Bomb Cyclone

Wilson Koewing
I woke up early to drive Rae to the airport. I’d gone back and forth about the Mardi Gras trip and finally decided to stay in Denver. We’d just moved into a new...
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December Now

Myles Zavelo
I’m crying because I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep because I’m crying. I wish I could cry myself to sleep. I haven’t been sleeping well since graduation. I usua...
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