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Saving Princesses

Kyle Francis Williams -

My neighbor’s dog barks when left alone, and it is always alone. She’s a nurse or something, my neighbor. The bundle of blankets on...

Just You Wait

Zachary C. Solomon -

Other than the plainly ornamental column that rose out of the center of the living room, the apartment was ideal for their growing family....

Habitat

Frankie Barnet -

Our mother likes to fuck mayflies. She developed a taste for it early in life, along with the heartbreak that inevitably follows. This has...

The Stars Walk Backward

Michele Filgate -

Gigi stands on the peeling steps of her gray deck in Connecticut and stretches forward over her dull, worn wooden cane to prune a...

All the King’s Men

travis tate -

Ludwig bathes in Badenburg Lake, on the eve of his nineteenth birthday. Sophie tends to picking flowers and momentarily glances at Ludwig’s naked body....

World Peace Now

Lydia Conklin -

Logan walks up East Wash and joins the masses protesting Scott Walker’s anti-union bill. She wears the University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants’ Association t-shirt...

Love Song

Melissa Ximena Golebiowski -

“Of course the cleanest room in my parents’ house is my dead sister’s,” Henry says. The gold metal threshold separates the hallway and her...

(Partheno)Genesis

Mariah Rigg -

Do you remember how it begins? (Maybe:) You are four years old, lying on a cobblestoned floor. It is New Years. Outside, your mother is...

Rescue Strategy

Elizabeth Fergason -

Their marriage counselor was a collector. The obligatory African masks yes, but in addition, life-sized wooden statues of ebony warriors, enormous clay urns, exotic...

Youth Group

Christian Winn -

On some hot-ass Saturday afternoons we steal a bottle of Jenny’s mom’s rum, spike Mountain Dew Big Gulps, march to the 8th Street parking...