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Featured Fiction

M. LAWSON
Would it be stupid enough to kill its creator? Or —

maybe the fire was the key. Maybe it would scrape the years off his bones, return his few gray hairs to the universe. It would clean him, absolve him, and turn him back, so this time, he could get everything right.

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Featured Poem

CAELEN MCQUILKIN
 I invite you to try and imagine what it would be like to braid joy into your writing alongside all that sorrow. / Imagine a bay leaf in soup, she said, like keeping a little fragment of joy somewhere in mind and even if it doesn’t end up in the final product, maybe there will still be a trace of it left there.

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