One Question: Gwen Goodkin
August 28, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Gwen Goodkin, author of A Place Remote, “why did you write most of the stories in A Place Remote from…
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Kira Kira by Miho Nonaka
August 28, 2020
Lying down on freshly laundered sheets,my two-year old reaches his hand upas if to catch faint stars in the ceilingprojected…
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From Now On by Miho Nonaka
August 26, 2020
See, for the moment, there is still water lappingInside this block of agate,At the heart of its irregular clouding.The morning…
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Autumn Note by Miho Nonaka
August 23, 2020
As if the trees that I didn’t know were therebecome incandescent to call attention to my inattention during my morning…
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Heads or Tails by Anastasia Jill
August 21, 2020
Bridgette decided the gun tasted like a penny. She knew, because she’d eaten coins far back as she could remember.…
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How Jaap De Bos Became a Jew by Peter Ferry
August 19, 2020
Dressed in new clothes and shoes with his hair tied back beneath a new hat, with the satchel containing everything…
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Map for a New World by Andrew Allegretti
August 16, 2020
From A Fool’s Game The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. —L.P. Hartley They slept on…
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Mattie’s Blue Dream by Ann L. Hemenway
August 14, 2020
Thanksgiving 1976 George was right to be afraid that his mother would smell the smoke in the library the next…
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So Good to See You by Amina Gautier
August 12, 2020
They haven’t seen each other since high school, but when their paths cross, they easily recognize in their adult faces…
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Necessary Detour by Thomas Benz
August 9, 2020
Through a driving rain, Alec makes his nightly trek to the Monroe Street Station, arriving wet at the margins where…
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Tallahassee by Trevor Lisa
August 7, 2020
You could turn to a liquid. You could wait for the tears or you could move to action. You could…
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Soft by GKS Waller
August 5, 2020
Raymond had high hopes for tonight, but he’d almost given up believing someone right for him would get on the…
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Magna Comes Loudly by Megan Stielstra
August 4, 2020
Here is how it would go: She’s waiting for the el, bag in one hand, book in the other. She’s…
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Air Water Fire Earth by Char Lee Lorraine
August 2, 2020
My mind is quiet when all the bills are paid Twist the button two clicksBlow air between your lips to…
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Warbler by Ari Wolff
August 2, 2020
Jackets of light slump over the trees.Smelled like a new thought.Called out from the narrow place. Awild onion grows here.A…
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Eviction as Aubade by Nico Amador
August 2, 2020
Last night we were insects, rubbing our legs togetherin an empty room. At four, I heard the rain and got…
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Notes on Former Dictatorships, Polyamory, Etc. by Nico Amador
August 2, 2020
I’m away without you. I’m thinking of you and notthinking of you at all. I’m speaking in a tongue that…
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After Surgery by Nico Amador
August 2, 2020
Look at me –I look so goodin this shirtyou gave me,not like every othervillage bearholding his icedcoffee, searchingfor the nextlove.…
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Sea=Sun by Megan Sungyoon
August 2, 2020
Sea                           Poetry; Poem          …
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A Stage of Grief by Tara Betts
August 2, 2020
I have buried the first home I ever had.She still had long hair, like she wanted,but the phone will never…
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The One I Hold On To by DeLon Howell
July 27, 2020
It has been many years since I played son to my father. Most of my life since the word Daddy…
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Strength in Numbers: Sicilian Women on the Front Line by Anne Calcagno
July 27, 2020
Mom slumped, largely out of it, occasionally jolting up. She now blinked at the two large men laboriously, excruciatingly, hoisting…
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How Long Will It Take Us to Get to the Water by Barrie Jean Borich
July 27, 2020
Lake Michigan is churning. Not blue today. Khaki gray, though the backlight is mossy, these shades some mix of freshwater,…
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The Hidden People by Anne-Marie Oomen
July 27, 2020
The rune Fe = Wealth In Nordurardalur, one of Iceland’s northernmost regions, my beloved David and I drive from the…
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West by Yvonne B. Robery
July 27, 2020
Peace like winds in the bull pines pointing at the coastblows through as if I am not there, go west.As…
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East by Yvonne B. Robery
July 27, 2020
I try to orient myself at dawn somewherein Pennsylvania when the dark loosens the grip onmy back and I have…
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The Contents of Cold Milk by Char Lee Lorraine
July 27, 2020
There is a Black man in the poolThe pool past the zen garden just beside the Eucalyptus treeHis skin shines…
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Self Portrait with Unbitten Nails by Amanda Galvan Huynh
July 27, 2020
Instead of the woman behind me in the post office linesaying—Such a pretty girl should have pretty nails—she will comment…
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My Mother’s Words by Amanda Galvan Huynh
July 27, 2020
I fear the words my mother has trouble spelling;using t-h-e-i-r when she really means t-h-e-r-eor your when she means you’re.…
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Empty Bottles and Beer Cans by Amanda Galvan Huynh
July 27, 2020
The night was crisp with a cumbia beatclimbing up with drunk cigarette smoke.Men’s laughter covered a woman’s voiceand a borracho’s…
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