Nonfiction
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"How to Leave (in Four Acts)"
by Prasida Clare Newman
“Comme des Garçons Eau De Parfum smells like lilac blossoms stuck to duct tape. Oddly specific, duct tape and lilacs remind her of the good things.”
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"Up Close and Personal: A Essay on Travel Tension"
by Lance Mason
“Nairobi was an illustration of why it is incumbent upon Americans to choose our leaders wisely—because history is not done with us.”
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"Characterization"
by Amelia Nason
“Accidentally flooded my house with mustard gas oops. He considers himself an amateur alchemist. Half awake, I scream into a pillow when I read the text. I’m getting used to his affinity for death, but it still makes me sick with worry.”
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"Notes of a Naturalist"
by Thomas Belton
“…the bees eventually flew back to their lair and crept back through their windowed opening into the earth, crawled down into their heated cellar to work more diligently till winter’s end, chastened by the promise of a false spring.”
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"Framed by Negative Space: A Man Made Out of No"
by Michael Collard
“I don’t have a framework for masculinity outside of pain. Outside of control, of domination, of what was done to me and what I swore I’d never do to anyone else. I wasn’t given an alternate model. No map. No shape to grow into. Just a list of what not to become.”
Two Micros
by Mark Hall
“There, overlooking the first floor,…stands Granddaddy’s desk, its quarter-sawn oak surface warped and buckled with rain poured from a hole in the roof.”
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“Junkie Horror Story”
by Amanda Izzo
“As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”