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A narrow winding creek cuts through flat plains of sagebrush. Slender elms line the banks beneath granite cliffs still topped with snow in summer. The term “American Alps” gets thrown around about this place but ...

Heber by Kent Quaney

Nonfiction

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Step 1:  Look down. It isn't. It is. View the absence. The dead space before realization. All the hands to mouths, eyes crowning, light like a holy orifice breaking open to speak what you've done. Look at your ...

How to Stop What Could be Born Inside of You by Maisie Williams

Nonfiction

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So, this is just college, says M, age 11. It is, I say, looking around at what I look around at all the time, especially the space where the historic sycamore used to be. All the ghosts, probably.  I can’t say I have ...

Votive by Mary Ann Samyn

Nonfiction

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In the kitchen, your father mans the video camera. He takes aim at your big brother, the corners of his mustache curling around his smirk. Your brother is five years old: milk chocolate eyes, flyaways fanning his ...

The Blanket by Katie Bannon

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Part One  Each night, I teach my daughter to love me. I call our nightly play sessions, “special mommy time” –fifteen minutes when I say yes to my two-year-old, follow her lead, and narrate her movements aloud. ...

The Sheep by Calley Marotta

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A friend told me she’d never been in love. The friend is a dance friend, a woman in her 40s, divorced, and currently in a long-term relationship.  “I think the closest thing to being in love I’ve ever felt ...

The Closest Thing Has Always Been by Emily Mathis

Nonfiction

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Tableau vivant: French for “living picture;” an enactment, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, of historical moments, stories or paintings; a scene—sometimes elaborately staged—with one or more stationary, ...

Tableaux Vivants: Witness by Carol D. Marsh

Nonfiction

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Despite clouded chlorine vision, Mom's August-tanned legs extending from strappy white sandals to pressed white shorts were unmistakable. She stood at the edge of the Newbridge Road pool with Patrick, the baby, ...

Skutch by Jeanne-Marie Fleming

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Not long after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack at the Nova Music festival in Israel’s Negev Desert, I was traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area for work, and decided to extend my visit to spend a couple days with close ...

Academia Needs Comedy Now More Than Ever by Sepehr Vakil

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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