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March 26, 2025 | Fiction

Tonight

Waseem Mainuddin

Harry forgot the rest of last night’s monologue, and just saw the crowd laughing. Applause was okay if it was accompanied by laughter, he just didn’t want to ask for claps. But laughs? In this world, people need to laugh.

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March 25, 2025 | Book Review

Nell Zink's Sister Europe

Klara Feenstra

But in this Freudian foreshadowing, Toto doesn’t quite realize that he’s far from Catholic school, with its rules and fall-in-line rigidity.

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March 25, 2025 | Nonfiction

The Magic Bus

Tyler Dempsey

This story’s about a trip. It’s a strange word. Trip. As a noun, it means a journey or excursion, going somewhere and returning, especially for pleasure, or to stumble or fall. It’s also the word used

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March 24, 2025 | Poetry

Incest

Jan E. Mehmedović

written in the season of cattle mutilation