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Danica Patrick Can Do Whatever She Wants With Her Body
Danica Patrick Can Do Whatever She Wants With Her Body by Kirsten Clodfelter Even if, like me, watching auto racing isn’t one of your top five (or top one hundred) favorite ways to spend a weekend, you’re probably at least … Continue reading
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Tagged Danica Patrick, feminism, Kirsten Clodfelter, NASCAR, Slut Walk, Women in Media, Women in Sports
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Sestina for the Swede-Nevadan
Sestina for the Swede-Nevadan by Okla Elliott —for Emilia Snyder Sometimes this place makes a girl feel plain icky, no other word for it, sitting at the bar with a purple martini. Makes her wish there was some ointment to … Continue reading
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan by Michael T. Young A gun came to school and taught the children how to think. It blew their minds and tested them on how to take a last breath. It sent home lessons to parents on … Continue reading
Snow Embers by Vilaska Nguyen
Nam waits in the grocery store parking lot as his father shops for dinner. The boy crawls over the console and situates himself behind the steering wheel. He stretches his torso, strains his neck but still is unable to catch … Continue reading
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Tilting Toward Winter
Tilting Toward Winter by Okla Elliott The air is gray and quiet as the sea’s wet-dying warmth. A blackbird screams out from memory and, pleased with its sour chirping, keeps at it undeterred by the browning season. I have everything … Continue reading
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Sex In Siberia
Sex In Siberia by Meg Pokrass My imaginary man lives in Siberia. We touch down on each other like helicopters. I smile, move my mouth around him—offer a warming hut, a place to explode. When he bursts, storm clouds open. … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemporary Literature, Flash Fiction, Meg Pokrass, Press 53, Siberia
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JEANANN VERLEE
GOOD GIRL By Jeanann Verlee Every morning I sit at the kitchen table over a tall glass of water swallowing pills. (So my hands won’t shake.) (So my heart won’t race.) (So my face won’t thaw.) (So my blood won’t … Continue reading
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I Want to Be a Buddhist (Or: Reading Martin Heidegger Mildly Hung-over)
I Want to Be a Buddhist (Or: Reading Martin Heidegger Mildly Hung-over) by Okla Elliott The silver is responsible for the chalice is responsible for the sacrificial vessel. There is a wheel. There are two wheels— the small wheel and … Continue reading
Justice Scalia or: How I Learned to Stop Ranting and Love the Assault Weapon
Justice Scalia or: How I Learned to Stop Ranting and Love the Assault Weapon by Juliet L. Ensign-Neary Twenty-seven words, and our interpretation of them, have dominated the national dialogue since the December 14, 2012, mass-murder of children at Sandy … Continue reading
Resolute
Photo by Vilaska Nguyen. The woman sits alone in the empty train station. There’s no phone reception but she checks for missed calls anyway. Childhood memories of her son always haunt her when it snows around Christmas. She remembers … Continue reading
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