from “The Theft” by Rebecca Bernard
On the night of the break-in, I was upstairs painting my daughter’s bedroom. I hoped Erin would...
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Category: Samples
from “Sonnets with Riff and Hook” by Robert Thomas
Sonnet with Church and Osso Buco The mystery of the Song of Songs: the priests’rationalizations of...
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from “The Girl Who Loved Boyan Slat” by Paula Closson Buck
We’re driving the largest cleanup in history. . . . We let the plastic come to us, using the ocean...
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“Emily Leaves Switzerland” by John Fulton
It was a warm midsummer night and getting dark now as Emily and a group of close friends sat on...
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“Turn Your Back to the Forest” by Karolina Letunova
Ivanych stumbled out onto the porch, squinting against the cruel brightness of snow. Not a curl of...
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from “Dark Matter” by Carly Parker-Plank
A binary star system consists of two stars that rotate around a shared center of mass, appearing...
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from “Reproduction” by Megan Rich
When the clinician inserted the tent of seaweed into my cervix, a practice as outdated as Japan’s...
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“The Ideal Reader” by Juliana Gray
Who is your ideal reader? a lit mag asked,and after careful thought, I decidedit’s Daniel Craig,...
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“Matrilineage” by Dāshaun Washington
Text: before there was manthere was mother and the sweetinfinince of her chorus mother of heaven,...
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“Foundling” by Tara Fee
Although I have now lived inside the ivory tower for longer than I ever lived outside it, my...
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“Greek Chorus” by Keetje Kuipers
Having nottouched myselfin some timeowing tothe erosionof incrementalsadnessesthat can detacha...
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“Tending the Garden” by Jessica Nirvana Ram
My mother tells me my grandmother has begun to touchherself. Dress up, hands between her legs,...
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