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The Accident

Kelly Thomas -

Today I go to the city pool and am relieved to find teenagers working who don’t give a fuck about me. I linger to...

Song Plugger & The Kid

DC Pierson -

Kid’s a hell of a songwriter but he’s weird. Let me tell you what I mean: He’ll fixate on some object or maybe even...

All This Could Be Yours

Rodrigo Duran -

My mom and I were driving to church when we came upon a dead raccoon on the side of the road. I don’t know...

The Trip

Elodie Saint-Louis -

It took them three hours to walk down to the campgrounds. By the end of the journey, her lips were split, her stomach tightened...

Clouds

Allie Qiu -

It was 5am when we went to get Ah-Gong and Ah-Po at the airport. Mom drove because I’d never driven on the highway. She...

Travelers

Leslie Epstein -

The snow was getting worse. All the flights out had been delayed or canceled. Manfred, of gloomy aspect, imagined his own aircraft circling above...

The Most Fun We’ll Ever Have

Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng -

The summer before our senior year, Liam had proposed an open relationship. Had he been a Gender Studies major, I would’ve understood; the proposition...

Knowing

Oluwabambi Ige -

He grew up with a mother who liked to go to church. She was, as he said to his wife, Fola, when they were...

One Hundred

Kaushika Suresh -

The baby wails. The baby—beautiful, horrible, the love of their lives, scrunching its brown eyes, stretching its brown skin, body swaddled in cotton, body...

The Love Clasp

Garrard Conley -

The land for hundreds of miles about the castle was flat. The king had not minded this fact until his wife, the queen, died....