Recent Writing

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Appointments

by Katie Kenney At the doctor’s office the carpet cloudy,matching magazines so melancholy with weepy celebrity stories, watery wallsfor wild vines reaching to nowhere. Curled-up posters of the elderlywith your disease, so happily the mere picture of livingwith a single peppy foot inside the grave. They’re saying the secret of…

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Grateful.

by Kashawn Taylor In this big housealone in my own room I hear from downstairs fourteen strange men loafed on couches enraptured  by guys in tights  running back and forth across a manicured field on this day of Thanks hooting laughing shooting the shit  It could be worse Shit, it has been worse much much worse than babysitters in an office under…

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Queen of the Café

by Julian Gallo She has the right hairstyle, the right eyeglasses, and the right clothes—everything carefully crafted to solidify her place in the bohemian world in which she desperately wants to belong.   She holds court at the table at the back of the café, surrounded by mostly male admirers, all…

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