The theme for our junior year English class that week was “man alone.” (It was 1963; the term “man” included women.)
Among other stories, Mr. Quinlan had assigned Leonid Andreyev’s “The Little Angel,” a ...
The Only Child at the Party by Anthony Mohr
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We had nowhere to go, no money, my mother and her second husband had no jobs and no prospects, we had fled cross country after essentially wrecking a house through sheer hillbillyism and had stopped paying on it and had ...
Epiphany No. 3 By Patrick Cole
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GENESIS • One hundred years ago, the most fearsome cultural critic in America was Edmund Wilson. Writing in 1931, Wilson noted in an essay that even though the Great Depression ravaged the country, “Americans still ...
Still Unsettled in the Promised Land by Thomas Larson
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August
The vacation rental was a few miles outside Healdsburg. The road to it—at first open, corrugated with grapevines—crested over a rise, and sank into a bowl overgrown with dead grass and bone-dry oaks. At ...
Airborne by Ryan McFadden
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Side A
The timing of our graduation with the writer’s strike meant that there was a hiring freeze, and this was not news for writers entering the industry that summer. At least Obama was running for his first term ...
The Swallowing Puzzle by Allen Landver
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I. Constitution
When I was ten, when we were happy, still a family all together on Glenn Road, I began a plastic model of the USS Constitution on my little desk. The hull rose from the keel; masts were erected; the ...
Mending What’s Broken by David Sapp
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I.
I am peering into Pacific tide pools with my five-year-old son. Farther off shore, jet black cormorants dry their wings on rocks that sustain the constant orchestra of crashing waves. At our feet, lesser movements ...
Intermezzos Along the Road Home by Kathryn Petruccelli
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Evan Williams is a Chicago-based writer working at the intersection of surrealism and gender performance. They are currently at work on a memoir about the masculine experience of anorexia. ...
A Spell by Evan Williams
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It is not the last time, but it is one of the times. Candy wrappers strewn by the hills of my grandfather’s feet beneath knit hospital blankets. In a few years an infection will cost him one of his toes, but that is ...
We Keep My Grandfather In A Box by Theresa Buchta
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