Category: NONFICTION
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“Luminous” by Camille LeFevre
“Not lunatic, but lunar, we face you, without question, sure in our waxing and waning.”
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“Swerve” by Laurie Blauner
“I’m praying in the form of shifting toward something. But without repenting or knowing what it is.”
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“Have It Your Way” by Neil Connelly
A Depression-era mother, my Grandma Qualter brought me out to eat only on rare occasions.
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“The Him Sim” by Aarron Sholar
But there’s no need for him now because that him is me, and I am more like him than I was before.
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“Water Works” by Dai Lin
Water works By 10 a.m., the African sun has baked me into the ground at 97 degrees. Like an overgrown, overripe mango, my body drops, collapses, puddles. The Ghanaian women around me are fasting from dawn ‘til dusk, without water, for Ramadan. At the dugout, they dunk and fill their water vessels with a blurring…