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Dumpster Chicken

Oriana Reilly -
1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Field Notes

The Long Run

Amber Wong -
“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Generations

Dinner Party

Daphne Biener -
“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

In Sickness and In Health

The Living Encounter the Dead

Casey Jo Graham Welmers -
I learned how to tag, bag and transport a body to the morgue before I ever took care of a living patient. I had...

Reviews

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

Anri Wheeler -
MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

The Living Encounter the Dead

Casey Jo Graham Welmers -
I learned how to tag, bag and transport a body to the morgue before I ever took care of a living patient. I had...

That Summer in Bulgaria

Erika Gallion Velasquez -

Stage Proxemics

Matthew E. Henry (MEH) -

The Lark Never Flew

Danielle Hayden -

Pencils Down! Literacies of Not Understanding

Spencer Salas -

Fiction

Obits

Gary Guinn -
When my brother died last year, I wrote his obituary (from the Latin obitus, pertaining to death) for the local paper. Buddy Wicekoff, 80, died...

Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? and Siren

Patricia Q. Bidar -

My Rose, My Fox, My Alien Probe

B. B. Schaikes -

Comfort Zone

Sandra Jensen -

Prodigies

Karen Day -

Poetry

I’ve Got a Lot on the Cascadia Plate

J.B. Williams -
There's a girl under the floor and she got inside my head. The rain here sings its songs all night long. The fireworks will go out over...

Ssamjanged for seven janams

Shivani Gupta -

What I’d Like to Say

Jennifer Chen -

Brunch

Ginger Ayla -

Crucifix

Richard Hoffman -

Advice

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading

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