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Kosciusko Bridge
Terese SvobodaEdgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...
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L'Odysée
Frederic TutenThen I made me way into the tottering house itself and found it all in shambles. A clothesline freighted with frilly red underwear, not mine...
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The Consultant
Catherynne M. ValenteShe walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green
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Bloodweed
Robley WilsonGrandfather Chandler says God made only two kinds of bloodweed: the stiff grass with greenish-purple flowers that grows wild in the ditches hereabouts...
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Wedding Day
Robley WilsonIt was Benjamin Howard’s wedding day, the second of his life and, he hoped, the last. Annette, the bride-to-be, was asleep in the bed he...
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On "Salvation" by Langston Hughes
Matthew Sharpe“Salvation” is the third chapter of Langston Hughes’s memoir The Big Sea, but this two-page tour de force of prose is also a compact...
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On "Sweethearts" by Richard Ford
Richard FordYes, we could have played it safe and inaugurated this series with something by Chekhov or Gogol or by someone like Alice Munro, who writes nothing...