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A Ritual of Humble Abundance

Laurel Páez Brave

Sunlight filters through the treetops and spills onto our cobblestone road as I roll down my window and let the cypress-scented breeze flow in. Everything rattles inside, including my Cat Stevens cassette tape dancing in the car-door pocket. […]

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White Noise

Sophie Gazarian

I would close my eyes and watch the shadows play behind my lids while the vibrations molded and shaped my dreams.

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The Painted Earthling

Gloria Macher

I come from a thousand light-years beyond the dark twilight of Earth, a planet today corroded by ambition and destroyed by so many shambles and fights over territorial and ethnic powers and other foolishness of the human species. […]

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Activist

Mayank Bhatt

She grabbed my arm and led me through the gathering of people from the slums.

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The Emperor and the Crab

Maya Khankhoje

Today is a rainy, slushy, windy, still-winter grey day, and my mood matches the weather.

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Will the World Pause for Me?

Ami Sands Brodoff

Vibration before sound, that’s how it starts. You could be at school, at home, anytime, anywhere. You hear mumbling and feel your lips twitch as you mouth words. Keep on your noise-cancelling earphones, never go anywhere without them. Listen […]

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Les patineurs

Antoine Bustros

Je nage. Autour de moi les vaguelettes taillées comme dans l’ardoise remuent au vent. Le visage immergé j’expire à fond, faisant bourdonner l’eau pendant que se vident mes poumons. Par moments, j’entends mon gargouillis se répandre dans un écho […]

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White-Yellow

Ehab Lotayef

The snowplow driver was motionless in his seat, seemingly in shock.

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Dear Hasidic Girls

Sivan Slapak

The other neighbourhood happening here, on these shared streets. So why do I now feel naked on them?

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Moi, faucon

Antoine Bustros

Lorsqu’on nous regarde d’en bas, ça donne l’impression que notre vie est facile. On imagine les grands espaces, la liberté. Eh bien, je dirais que la liberté n’est possible qu’à l’abri des problèmes et la seule période sans problème […]

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Talula & The Sarasota Sag

Bonnie Brotman Shore

Talula Talula, my seven-year-old visitor, meets the ghost of my husband in my kitchen. Her father lifts her onto the bar stool at the counter where I’ve spread out a festive buffet of beads. Lately, Talula has been […]

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Loved

Taryn Foster

Fifteen years ago, I would have never even thought of this as an option. Yet here I stand, looking out of my window from my closet of an apartment, and I watch the stars.

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Monday Morning Madera Municipal Court

Roberto Perezdiaz

Municipal Court Mondays were always a low roar or outright chaos. Or maybe it was the other way around as the herd of weekend detainees was packed into the courtroom. The crimes for the most part were of a […]

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