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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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