Intractability
September 12, 2025
I zigzagged through Long Beach to avoid stoplights, tapping my fingers against the steering wheel one at a time, counting…
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Myth
September 12, 2025
Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of the poetry collections Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page, 2024) and The Displaced Children of…
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This blanket, this brush
September 12, 2025
Cecilia Pinto is a writer whose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. Her…
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Choose Your Deity
September 12, 2025
Without telling anyone, the missionary took a picture of the little girl when she wasn’t looking and posted it on…
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Kaiko
September 12, 2025
One thing I notice about me is I’m deep . . . deeper than most people care to go. Thomas…
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Fifteen
September 12, 2025
cin salach has collaborated with musicians, painters, and, most recently, chefs and scientists for over 30 years. She feels called…
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Pine
September 12, 2025
From her private room at Whispering Pine Rest Home, Annie gazed out at the friendly grove of Carolina loblollies, their…
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In the Rift
September 12, 2025
Every door is a portal but not all portals are doors. What will it take to cross over? The rift…
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Of Dead Rabbits and Dying Ideologies
September 12, 2025
In 2018, my wife and i concluded we wouldn’t Have children. We tried. After two miscarriages, some hardcore consultations, emotional…
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September 12, 2025
Constance Hansen is Managing Editor of Poetry Northwest. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: RHINO, West Branch, Image…
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Toward Memphis, 5
September 12, 2025
Brian Satrom’s poetry collection Starting Again was released by Finishing Line Press in 2020. His poetry has appeared in a…
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September 12, 2025
The Gardener (II) * Brad Richard is the author of Habitations (Portals Press, 2000), Motion Studies (The Word Works, 2011), Butcher’s Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012), Parasite…
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“It’s not the definitive look”: a conversation with Virginia Bell
June 30, 2025
Interview by Beth McDermott I’ve been lucky enough to know Virginia Bell as a writer and editor since my first…
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Creating Wild Characters and Events: An Interview With John Counts
June 19, 2025
I grew up reading William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, who filled their places with wild characters and events. It made…
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Bringing Wonder and Strangeness into Everyday Life: An Interview with A. Kendra Greene
May 31, 2025
By Lorraine Boissoneault The first few months of 2025 have felt interminable, new horrors turning monotonous because they come at…
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To Attend to What Needs You: An Interview with Brad Richard
May 19, 2025
by Nicole Cooley Brad Richard and I both grew up in New Orleans, attending the same arts high school: The…
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Nothing Less Than Everything: An Interview With Alina Stefanescu
May 16, 2025
by Jael Montellano Picture the 2011 film Melancholia’s opening; the slow-motion fall of the black horse, the suspended moths in…
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Pour Yourself Into the Gap: An Interview With Brooke Randel
March 21, 2025
By Kyle Givens Sometimes a book finds its way to you when you weren’t looking. My grandmother passed away six…
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How Books Steer a Life: An Interview With Donna Seaman
January 17, 2025
by Jael Montellano There is an exercise I practice with my therapist. I’m certain there is a name for it,…
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November 20, 2024
To Shahed Belbeisi The syringe lays sterile on the tray next to the sterile gloves, sterile blood thinners, and sterile…
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November 20, 2024
He doesn’t start out for the track. The prescribed route lies solid in his head: travel a straight line down…
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November 20, 2024
X-Ray Specs Much has been said of dogs’ sense of smell. Three hundred million olfactory receptors, on average, compared to…
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November 20, 2024
In the sober house, rules loosened, and I was allowed to turn on my phone. Aside from texts from my…
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November 20, 2024
He’d decided to wait to tell his family he was home. Get past the holidays, at least—there’d been enough drama.…
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November 20, 2024
I’d been enjoying afternoon walks in the cemetery for as long as we’d lived on the ridge. First it was…
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November 20, 2024
Impressions The shell of a hermit crab lies among the dried leaves of the path that I followed into the…
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November 20, 2024
The spreadsheets are in disarray. There are endless columns, far past Z into the double letters, spilling over onto Jonathan’s…
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November 20, 2024
This family brought their car in and I felt like I could peer into their thoughts and see what they…
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November 20, 2024
Lena already had a knot in her stomach when they entered the sparkling foyer of the Cow Hollow mansion. She…
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November 20, 2024
When we think of our grandfather, what comes to mind are splinters of wood. Slivers, we used to call them.…
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