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May 6, 202412 min read

FICTION: PAY ATTENTION, REMEMBER THIS BY MARA AGUILAR EGAN

A BIRD TRAPPED IN THE AIRPORT—something small and desperate and otherwise common, except for the distinction of being frantic and wild

Aug 3, 20239 min read

Chapter 8: Apocalypse Now When the school year ended, I was out of a job, so I moved back to Beaverton. I didn’t know what to do with...

May 31, 202313 min read

FICTION: THE BATTLE FOR WARNER BROTHERS BY J.T. PRICE

May 10, 202311 min read

CHAPTER 1 Five years later, Charles Varnas would recall the white linen against his shin, the shifting blade of his trousers, one knee...

Apr 26, 20235 min read

FORMER WEST BERLIN, 1992 The past few weeks, the days had blurred together. Aleksandr would wake at 7:30, leave the apartment in...

Mar 14, 20234 min read

CHAPTER 1 You decide to bring bread to Mother. When you open your eyes on the day of the referendum, you are thinking of bananas, of...

Mar 13, 20239 min read

CHAPTER 2 The sky is overcast and the air hot and sticky as I make my daily walk to the warehouse where I rent studio space from my...

Mar 12, 20234 min read

1. I’d gone mute. We were in line. It was hot. Yellow-y. She was the one who wanted to be here. I would’ve rather been in my chair,...

Mar 12, 20236 min read

PROLOGUE The belly of Florida is a swamp, and I was born there, in the Wilds. My birth season runs through the warm sconce of August,...