Stacey C. Johnson
In that in-between year between high school and everything that came next, the problem was not knowing what to call it.
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Becca Krock
The heat, the chlorine, the plastic sticking to the backs of her thighs, the pain. Connie planned to wait the episode out on her pool floatie.
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Vincent Anioke
Still, there was a different kind of knowing, wasn’t there? Not of wants and tics, but of pain, memory. Ginika scarcely existed before Port Harcourt.
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Craig Anderson
You’ve heard that the box boys aren’t employed by the club, that they aren’t an official group. In theory, anyone could climb onto one of those boxes and dance beneath the giant neon Chesire Cat grin suspended above them.
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Mustapha Enesi
She asked this question before touching the center of her head with an old wooden rosary bead. A tradition she learned from her mother who learned from her mother which I’d learned from her. I
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Rachel B. Moore
Paul had a strange habit of signing sloppily, lazily, when it was just the two of them alone. He’d say over and over, either mouthing the words or out loud, “You know what I mean.”
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