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Harford Hopson

I stared at the loose hair on the dash in front of me. It writhed, it shriveled. Cringed in the wind. But even with the windows open it buoyed to the dash. It was strong.

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Work Always Comes to You

Luciana Erregue-Sacchi

She, an Argentinian art historian, meets a Peruvian anthropologist at a Canadian cocktail party. Looking over the Edmonton skyline from the third-floor

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Wake Up, Wake Up, The World’s On Fire

J S Khan

“Wake up, wake up, the world’s on fire!”: these are the first words I recall my mother saying, and the first words I recall being spoken by anyone—but especially and specifically to me.

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Opening and Closing the Garage Door

Stefan Kiesbye

When he returned from his run, the garage door clicker was gone. Troy was panting next to him, his tongue fat and purple. Richard fished through his pockets, three

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Mismatched

Anu Kandikuppa

Srini had not wanted to hit the grocery store owner—he had done it only to make his wife Priya happy. She’d always been difficult to live with and was becoming more difficult every day,

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A Cut

Fradl Shtok
Translated by Jordan Finkin and Allison Schachter

People are strolling in and out of the park, each and every one of them taking even strides, while May limps just a little.

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Don’t Put Lee Flann On a Pedestal

Miguel Gardel

When I saw her for the first time, she was like the sun, all lit up and radiating beauty. But it was evening, so it was more like the moon, a glow, not sunshine, softly inviting me to come closer. And the smile.

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The Fraud

Jesse Falzoi

A guy I met on a train to Madrid five years ago needed a place to stay for the night. He showed up at ten o’clock in the evening, as I was trying to watch a show a friend of mine had recommended to me. I was too tired, I’d been drifting

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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