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May 15, 2023 | Fiction

Self-cleaning car cleans self after nuclear blast

Ben Dreith

People keep saying that they can’t say anything but everyone is saying everything all the time. 

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May 15, 2023 | Fiction

Two Bikes, One City

Matthew Binder

Finally, Mr. Mackey, the chair of the school’s English Department, delivered a rambling panegyric about the school’s depth of talented writers. I left my seat in the bleachers to fetch a Dr. Pepper from the vending machine.

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May 14, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

When My Mother Could No Longer Talk Me Off the Ledge

Catherine Davis

Like many who quit drinking, my mother became a proselytizer for sobriety.

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May 12, 2023 | Poetry

3 poems

Rachel Custer

The only thing grows faster than corn here is despair.