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Plan for Going to a Music Festival with Generalized Anxiety Disorder by Annie Marhefka
If you ask a person without generalized anxiety disorder how they plan for a music festival, they say things like: “Wear layers in case...
May 1, 20223 min read


O by Wendy Newbury
They appeared in kaleidoscope colors, in the form of Siamese fighting fish, gliding about the room, performing graceful pirouettes. She’d...
Apr 10, 20222 min read


The Starting or The End by Wilson Koewing
If I start at the end, it was me in the Cork airport sitting alone at the gate for New Orleans, her barely acknowledging me as she...
Dec 26, 20211 min read


Cobweb by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
A tangle web anchored to a log pile by the fireplace; these webs, you know, arise in dark zones of neglect, and one day you’ll happen to...
Dec 12, 20212 min read


Any Small Thing by Ashton Russell
I’m building a garage out of little plastic blocks with my son and thinking about the dream I had last night. You were there. Telling me...
Oct 24, 20211 min read


Morning Routine Overseas by Susan Hatters Friedman
Our second rental in New Zealand has cheap construction—again—despite the cost, but was a three-minute walk to the sea and that was...
Sep 19, 20211 min read


Pain Relievers by Margaret King
Our affection for each other, portioned out in teaspoonfuls: Take 2 at bedtime Only as needed Never combine with alcohol. Margaret King...
Sep 5, 20211 min read


Nightmares Plague Me As I Travel by Jenn Koiter
I thought I was going so far away, but everyone has followed. My knuckle just caught a man on the side of the head as I rushed down the...
Aug 26, 20211 min read


Word Problem by Jenn Koiter
The last time I saw you, you gave me a book of shitty poems. The second poem in one section, you said, particularly made you think of me....
Aug 21, 20211 min read
Future City, Illinois by Robert Fromberg
On the southern tip of Illinois is a tiny piece of land, like the tip of a baby’s pinky finger extending into the water where the...
Jun 28, 20212 min read
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