Mexican Lunch
Adelaide and her family were sitting in a tiny lunch place in Mexico, just over the Arizona border, where her 77-year-old father, Sheldon, lived with his third (and final) wife.
They had all just ...
Comedy by Elizabeth Weinstein
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When they told me my grandfather had ditched the States to be a mayor of a village in Mexico, I knew I had to go.
Mijo, they said, don't. Por favor. There is no longer a six-degree separation between the violence and ...
The Mayor of Villa de Los Robles Has a Good Poker Face by Rocio Anica
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The newlyweds had a rough summer, moneywise. Vanessa was laid off from her art therapist’s job at the women’s prison, and her husband’s draftsman’s hours were scaled back at the engineering firm. But they were ...
Vanessa by Janis Hubschman
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“I had my other arm back then, but it didn’t help,” the one-armed girl said during the morning meeting. Members were supposed to introduce themselves before speaking. She didn’t. “My previous caregiver used to ...
The Incompletes by Mohammad Saleh Sahragard
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When we first met, he asked to call me by your name: Clara. I imagined you as a ballerina, and therefore more beautiful than me.
When I was young, I had no idea that men might want me. When my friends would get called ...
Clara by Iris Loehr
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Day One
September. The hotel. It was supposed to be beautiful. It was, after all, named after Jay Gatsby, and located on a French side street. The emerald green walls, like a signature. They left their luggage at the ...
All That Was Promised by William Pei Shih
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We weren’t surprised when we got the call from the guidance counselor at Avery’s middle school. We’d anticipated it ever since Avery began speaking in Carl Sagan quotes. It didn’t take a fortune teller to predict ...
The Aggregate of Our Joy by Elizabeth Rosen
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The Howl
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Okay. Let’s try this out.
One: The dark wood texture of the tall-backed waiting room bench that wraps around the wall. I’m alone on this side, but there’s a twin bench on the far wall with two ...
The Howl by Hana Rehman
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[after Borges]
It is said that sometime in late 2029, in a server farm in Virginia, a research team constructed a machine that could generate every human thought that could ever be imagined. The project, financed by a ...
The Archive of Ananke by Jade Bailey Brock
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