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  • Volume 38, Issue 2

     A Lily is A Lily is A Lily

    Rose McLarney

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  • Volume 30, Issue 1

    Excerpts, Pictures, Lightning And Thunder

    Paul Crenshaw

    “She weighs a hundred pounds shivering wet but calls her biceps Lightning and Thunder.”

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  • Volume 34, Issue 1

    In Praise Of The Plains

    Sarah Fawn Montgomery

    ”In summer, Nebraska skies splinter, lightning wrecking the blue dome, splintering it to shards. Storms come on sudden, though the birds know and take to skies in a cackle, wings beating warning.”

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  • Volume 37, Issue 1

    Paragon of Animals

    Eddie Vona

    “It was Christmas Eve, so my mother was killing lobsters in our kitchen sink.”

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  • Volume 27, Issue 1

    Puttanesca

    Kerry L. Malawista

    “When my nephew, Dan Barber, a well-known chef, was asked the question, ‘Does food taste better when it’s made with love?’ he replied with a laugh, ‘Food with love! I’m a very angry cook in my kitchen! I yell a lot . . . I hope not, because I’m really in trouble.’”

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  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    Seeking the Feral Feminine

    P.J. Powell

    “I was withering in the suburban dead space between New York City and Philadelphia when I first learned of the wild woman archetype, courtesy of Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s Women Who Run With the Wolves.”

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  • Volume 29, Issue 1

    The Conflicted Archaeologies of Hoosier Cream Pie

    Matthew Gavin Frank

    “When we name our state pie after the sweetest thing we can think of, grab your knees, rub at all that syrupy blood collecting at the base of your skull.”

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  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    The Vast Distance Away from Everything

    Jacqueline Ellis

    “My daughter balances herself against the cracked-vinyl-covered chair and wraps her fingers around the chrome leg of our kitchen table.”

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  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    The Whole Time

    Stephanie Mason

    “‘Any pregnancies?’ The ultrasound tech asked with her blue-scrubbed back to me.”

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  • Volume 36, Issue 2

    This Is My American Country

    Allen M. Price

    “On the day it was reported that Jacob Blake was handcuffed to his hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back seven times by a Wisconsin police officer, my mother called me upset, and said, ‘We should give up on this land and move to another country because America’ll never accept Black people. America’ll always see us as subhuman.’”

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  • Volume 38, Issue 2

    Tiresias

    Robert Eric Shoemaker

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  • Volume 38, Issue 2

     A Lily is A Lily is A Lily

    Rose McLarney

    Read more >

  • Volume 30, Issue 1

    Excerpts, Pictures, Lightning And Thunder

    Paul Crenshaw

    “She weighs a hundred pounds shivering wet but calls her biceps Lightning and Thunder.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 34, Issue 1

    In Praise Of The Plains

    Sarah Fawn Montgomery

    ”In summer, Nebraska skies splinter, lightning wrecking the blue dome, splintering it to shards. Storms come on sudden, though the birds know and take to skies in a cackle, wings beating warning.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 37, Issue 1

    Paragon of Animals

    Eddie Vona

    “It was Christmas Eve, so my mother was killing lobsters in our kitchen sink.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 27, Issue 1

    Puttanesca

    Kerry L. Malawista

    “When my nephew, Dan Barber, a well-known chef, was asked the question, ‘Does food taste better when it’s made with love?’ he replied with a laugh, ‘Food with love! I’m a very angry cook in my kitchen! I yell a lot . . . I hope not, because I’m really in trouble.’”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    Seeking the Feral Feminine

    P.J. Powell

    “I was withering in the suburban dead space between New York City and Philadelphia when I first learned of the wild woman archetype, courtesy of Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s Women Who Run With the Wolves.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 29, Issue 1

    The Conflicted Archaeologies of Hoosier Cream Pie

    Matthew Gavin Frank

    “When we name our state pie after the sweetest thing we can think of, grab your knees, rub at all that syrupy blood collecting at the base of your skull.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    The Vast Distance Away from Everything

    Jacqueline Ellis

    “My daughter balances herself against the cracked-vinyl-covered chair and wraps her fingers around the chrome leg of our kitchen table.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    The Whole Time

    Stephanie Mason

    “‘Any pregnancies?’ The ultrasound tech asked with her blue-scrubbed back to me.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 36, Issue 2

    This Is My American Country

    Allen M. Price

    “On the day it was reported that Jacob Blake was handcuffed to his hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back seven times by a Wisconsin police officer, my mother called me upset, and said, ‘We should give up on this land and move to another country because America’ll never accept Black people. America’ll always see us as subhuman.’”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 2

    Tiresias

    Robert Eric Shoemaker

    Read more >

Nonfiction

  • Volume 38, Issue 2

     A Lily is A Lily is A Lily

    Rose McLarney

    Read more >

  • Volume 30, Issue 1

    Excerpts, Pictures, Lightning And Thunder

    Paul Crenshaw

    “She weighs a hundred pounds shivering wet but calls her biceps Lightning and Thunder.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 34, Issue 1

    In Praise Of The Plains

    Sarah Fawn Montgomery

    ”In summer, Nebraska skies splinter, lightning wrecking the blue dome, splintering it to shards. Storms come on sudden, though the birds know and take to skies in a cackle, wings beating warning.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 37, Issue 1

    Paragon of Animals

    Eddie Vona

    “It was Christmas Eve, so my mother was killing lobsters in our kitchen sink.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 27, Issue 1

    Puttanesca

    Kerry L. Malawista

    “When my nephew, Dan Barber, a well-known chef, was asked the question, ‘Does food taste better when it’s made with love?’ he replied with a laugh, ‘Food with love! I’m a very angry cook in my kitchen! I yell a lot . . . I hope not, because I’m really in trouble.’”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    Seeking the Feral Feminine

    P.J. Powell

    “I was withering in the suburban dead space between New York City and Philadelphia when I first learned of the wild woman archetype, courtesy of Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s Women Who Run With the Wolves.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 29, Issue 1

    The Conflicted Archaeologies of Hoosier Cream Pie

    Matthew Gavin Frank

    “When we name our state pie after the sweetest thing we can think of, grab your knees, rub at all that syrupy blood collecting at the base of your skull.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    The Vast Distance Away from Everything

    Jacqueline Ellis

    “My daughter balances herself against the cracked-vinyl-covered chair and wraps her fingers around the chrome leg of our kitchen table.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 1

    The Whole Time

    Stephanie Mason

    “‘Any pregnancies?’ The ultrasound tech asked with her blue-scrubbed back to me.”

    Read more >

  • Volume 36, Issue 2

    This Is My American Country

    Allen M. Price

    “On the day it was reported that Jacob Blake was handcuffed to his hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back seven times by a Wisconsin police officer, my mother called me upset, and said, ‘We should give up on this land and move to another country because America’ll never accept Black people. America’ll always see us as subhuman.’”

    Read more >

  • Volume 38, Issue 2

    Tiresias

    Robert Eric Shoemaker

    Read more >