Tips Appreciated

Kristen Siegel

But a part of me was curious, enticed by stories of “who kissed whom,” and more so by the prospect of hanging out with people who weren’t resigned to rot in their hometowns after a four-year stint at some college in Massachusetts. People who saw the Cape as a pitstop rather than a final destination — a place to escape reality rather than a stifling reality to escape.

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The Sparrow and the Lily

M. Holladay Brantley

I was throwing leftover breadcrumbs to our chickens when I heard the trumpet blowing and looked to the eastern skies to see if the Second Coming of Christ was finally upon me. The sky was empty, though, and there was no angel; it was just my cousin, Darby, playing the trumpet next door.

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42 Years

Ricky Enrique Perez

42 years. 42 years before the US government saw it fit to provide Teresa with her green card.

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Post 19

Sara Tabin

You had to take the job. All your graduate school applications were rejected. You’re counting on this year to give you the research experience you need to apply again.

“Good morning!” reads your caption. 

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the history of me

Joel Fishbane

Of the many books I've read in my academic career, none have been so strange as my autobiography, which I discovered one day in a bookstall outside the Strand. Its title, The History of Me, was not as large as my name, which came as a great surprise. I have written many books and, on all of them, the title was larger because mine is not a name that sells.

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