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Poetry
I Make Jokes When I’m Devastated
If you walk the stations of the cross, most tour guides / will politely point out the spot where they think Jesus / may have fallen or the spot where / he may have met his mother.
September 2024Readers Write
Uniforms
For a job at Burger King, a prison in North Carolina, a girls’ school in Iran
June 2024
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Nail Salon
Some people remember childhood bike rides and ice-cream sundaes; I remember acetone and moon-slivers of nails.
November 2023Readers Write
The American Dream
An Indian immigrant, an oil-company man, a bicycle-riding nomad
November 2023
Photography
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
May 2023
Fiction
A Sandwich Is A Concept
Our biggest fear was dogs. Ronnie and I looked up dog facts like maniacs. Can dogs smell through plastic? Does the USPS use drug dogs? How do you trick drug dogs? How effective are drug dogs? Are drug dogs a scam that the government uses to justify illegal searches?
February 2023
Readers Write
Anniversaries
Of a fifty-year marriage, of an immigrant’s journey, of a terrorist attack
January 2023
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
We Fools
When Nonna Venere visited, she arrived by train like in a movie, stepping down from the first-class compartment enveloped by smoke, wearing a cloche with a veil. She had four large suitcases and no gifts.
December 2022
The Dog-Eared Page
Market Street
The sea of people looked like a great heartbroken circus, wild living art, motley and stylish, old and young, lots of Buddhists, people from unions and churches and temples, punks and rabbis and aging hippies and nuns and veterans — God, I love the Democratic Party — strewn together on the asphalt lawn of Market Street.
April 2022
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