A Girl Seen

Amanda Irene Rush

When she met James at a party last year and mentioned she was a stripper, James said, “Big deal,” not even giving her the chance to tell him about how she had found the ad for Dancers: No Experience Necessary! in the local indie paper at the coffee shop where she had been working since dropping out of Ohio State.

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Space Yacht Cookout

John Milas

A shiny silver space yacht descends upon a purple water planet located a thousand billion miles from Earth, but the captain does not perform a routine scan before landing—

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Carnaval, Upstate

Cristina Hartmann

Here I use English or my voice. ASL is for school. I arranged signs in a more English way, which felt slow and clumsy. That didn't work either, so I spoke, twisting my tongue and trying to breathe right

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Some, If We're Lucky

Sam Simas

As the river carried them home, Martin sat at the canoe’s stern while Cristo leaned over the bow and watched for stones. The dead buck crowded them to the outermost limits of the boat

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The Apartments at Brightstone

Billy Hallal

Sometimes, when sleep won’t come, you’ll walk through the complex, branches and storm-blown Spanish moss scattered around you, and feel like you’re the only person there.

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