2014 - The Rhapsodist

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The top drawer always stuck just a little. The slight nudge passed the 2/3 mark, the sweet spot. Unless, as sometimes did happen, a pen or lighter, became wedged behind the right rear wheel, the wood had rotted, black and orange with rolling shadowers, And there! Shit. It was a lighter behind that wheel, yellow and faded. 30 years. Could it light the flares to lead the rest of us out? Flick. Flick. Constant check of chipping flint for just a glimpse of faulty maps and corridors adorned with dust and “In the beginnings,” Flourished cornucopia like bacterial indulgence swept. The corrosion left this warehouse, a place where sundries, covered roofs, evictions counting them all one by one; Lever rusted with autumn dust, pointed stars sleep steep tales of pass it on. Moreover, there was a crumpled piece of paper, Unrumpled corners crept the light in cascading imagery ink read with an odor of ceremony.

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jeff horner On the Importance of Stories barbie byrd

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The State in This State of Humanities

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Nez Covington I Know Fellas (A Man’s Reply to Mary Lambert’s “Body Love”

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jennifer lynn browning Ancestral

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magnolia wilson Autumnal

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mary topper First Light joseph jamison

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caroline padgett Countenance

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Silence

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forest beaudet To Whom It May Concern grey lajoie

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Desk Revisited

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Interim

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Etgar Keret’s Heaven

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The Substance of Things nicholas welch

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adam carnes The Conflagration magnolia wilson

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Memory: Wedding Photo joseph jamison

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anonymous Thank You, Sociology porscha orndorf

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nez covington Losing Patience

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Childhood (flash fiction

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Boy Scouts abigail hickman

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grey lajoie Why Don’t We Have Sax Anymore?

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Fucking in a Tired Form

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joseph jamison War Spit forrest mcdonald

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Catching Smoke london atil

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She Has Dimples markia c. brooks

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