Category: miCRo
miCRo: “Revision” by B. Do
In B. Do’s moving piece, revision is not merely a means to an end; rather, there is a truth in and an ethical weight to the act of revision itself.
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miCRo: “Lake Effect” by Mark Budman
He prefers happier stories: “The girl and the boy loved each other. They got married. The end.” But the happy stories don’t last long.
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miCRo: “Archival Landfill” by Michael Credico
He seems to come and go just for the coming and going of it, as if he were a cowboy. We didn’t raise a cowboy.
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miCRo: “Fight” by Babak Lakghomi
Babak Lakghomi’s “Fight” considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.
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miCRo: “Summit” by Deb Werrlein
I say no age is too old for living.
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miCRo: “The Man Under the Blanket” by Lisa Thornton
A story that examines the nature of belonging to a family, with an undercurrent of imagined violence.
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miCRo: A poem by Alex Wells Shapiro
In Alex Wells Shapiro’s “a buck,” the voice confronts death, specifically the material reality and circumstances of death.
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miCRo: “When I Was a Boxer” by Kailah Figueroa
Kailah Figueroa’s “When I Was a Boxer” is an adrenaline-filled pleasure from start to finish.
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miCRo: “Honey?” by Daniel Fraser
In Daniel Fraser’s “Honey?” the house is uneasily animate, changing with its inhabitants and, indeed, changing its inhabitants.
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miCRo: “Departing” by Charis Morgan
The house would have folded sooner, but its clocks lost their hands.
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miCRo: “The Musculature of Restraint” by Carolene Kurien
I come back the next day and throw every curl sloughing itself off my head on the butcher scale.
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miCRo: “Après L’Ondée” by Brooke Middlebrook
In Brooke Middlebrook’s “Après L’Ondée,” scent is a mode of inquiry that necessitates sensitivity down to the level of the molecular.
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