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ZEJNEPA AROSE EARLYZejnepa arose early.She arose before dawn.She swept her vast quarters,She baked hot loaves of bread,She cobbled light footgear,Then she began looking for her Kurto.She went far in search of him.There ...

Gorani Lyrics Translated by Denis Ferhatović

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Tuesday afternoons my prof & I would meet because I knew the guy who supervised the cages, who’d unlock the token box so we could swing for free. I’d watch as Alan — bifocals sweat-streaked & pacemaker ...

Intro to Poetry by Reed Turchi

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  "Are you gonna do it?" Ava Gardner’s clone leans against the wall, her black tube top indifferent to gravity. "Do what?" Betsy asks, even though she knows. Ava Gardner Jr. (nom de scene) drove her home last week in ...

Betsy’s Risk by Delaina Hlavin

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                   “You are, you know, you were the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life.”                                     —Renata Adler, Pitch ...

White Space by Robin Lippincott

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The Sirens by Emila Hart Review by Nicole Yurcaba Publisher: St. Martin’s Publishing Group Publication Date: April 1, 2025 ISBN: 9781250280824Page #: 352 pages In 2023, novelist Emilia Hart shocked and awed ...

The Sirens by Emilia Hart Review by Nicole Yurcaba

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We have sex on the couch, which is the first time we have sex in weeks. It is her suggestion. “Maybe something will be different?” She asks, as if I know the answer. It is different, I guess. I keep groping not at ...

Horizon by Peter Schlachte

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The Revolver (Chapter one of the novel titled The Wonderful Life of Kornél Janega) My mom, my late stepfather’s two daughters, and I were sitting in a nine-year-old diesel station wagon with a revolver wrapped in a ...

Short Story by Gábor Kálmán Translated by Tímea Sipos

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after Lucille CliftonThe morning of your birthday, I take the C train downtown. Find your shadowin every corner of this city: the dark geometry of skyscrapers, the curvatureof black birds. A man’s voice, tired as ...

The Arrogance of Days by Jeffrey Liao

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“What are you?” A question, posed by strangers, that has followed me for as long as I can remember. On subways, in classrooms, on the street. People only mean to ask about my ethnic makeup, but to use those ...

“What Are You, and Where is Burma?” by Juliet Way-Henthorne

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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