AmLit Spring 2022

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Right?

Julia Kane Content Warking: eating disorder

I’m fine. I’m normal. Just busy is all. It happens to everybody, right? Right? What does a smile look like? What does it feel like? Remind me- I’m starting to forget. The mouth stretches, widens, The corners turn up. It doesn’t reach the tired eyes. There- that’s it. Just right. Right? The facade is beautiful, Gilded and carved from marble. The stone is cold. I am a straight-A student with a perfect family. I have everything I want. I’m alright. Right? I’m fine. I’m normal. Is it a lie if I just leave out the details? Is it a lie if I’m beginning to believe it’s true?

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Someone I Love is Slipping Away • • • Isabella Paracca

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Cleaning my room • • • Olivia O’Connor

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Time’s Autobiography • • • Nicole Flanagan

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I Hate the Texture of These Sheets

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Reflections on Time • • • Emma DiValentino

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Found in Nature • • • Demi Benard

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Childhood Dwellings • • • Isabella Paracca

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remains • • • Alexia Partouche

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Ripe, New Beginnings • • • Zahra DeShaw

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Speak, Hear, Listen • • • Hope Jorgensen

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Weep • • • Miriam Yarger

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Big Three • • • Kaitlyn Chesleigh

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Childhood Absence • • • Hope Jorgensen

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Loneliness • • • Emma Southern

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The Ocean’s Fairy Dust • • • Grace Hasson

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Grief • • • Emilee Rae Hibshman

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i will try to remember this • • • Heather Roselle

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Another Life • • • Jordyn Baker

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an ode to the brown

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ache is a noun and a verb • • • McKenna Casey

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Lights Out • • • Kathryne McCann

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The End • • • Mara Shepherd

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we are womxn • • • Stella Thé

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To the Woman I’ll Meet Tomorrow • • • Olivia Traub

2min
page 62

I Thought I Knew What Love Felt Like • • • Emily Rae Hibshman

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Right? • • • Julia Kane

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Like broken pottery, fondly I think of you • • • Annika Rennaker

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There is So Much to Love in a Laugh

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I Remember Everything • • • Kaitlyn Chesleigh

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Stories • • • Miriam Yarger

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Diamonds for My Daughters

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untitled_1 • • • Katherine Mahan

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The Worth of an Elephant • • • Hope Jorgensen

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It Was Just a Game • • • Emma Southern

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I don’t know why I like old things • • • Annika Rennaker

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a concert in the square • • • Isabel de Oliveira

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Things I Need to Fix • • • McKenzie Taylor

2min
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Fern After Dark • • • Dori Rathmell

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Bloodrush • • • Audrey Magill

3min
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Banshee • • • Tilly Boraks

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ICARUS! • • • Mei Matute

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Bloom 2 • • • Isabelle Ri

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Josephine • • • Mara Shepherd

1min
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heitara • • • Caroline Siebert

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A Letter to My Maker • • • Connaught Riley

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The Girl in the Yellow House • • • Kathryne McCann

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indifference • • • Sydney Muench

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She Shoots, She Mourns • • • Liah Argiropoulos

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It’s the Little Things • • • Olivia Traub

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Wrath • • • Hope Jorgensen

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Spring 2022

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60,000 • • • Jordyn Baker

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A Civic and Orange Slices • • • Ellie Blanchard

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No One Told You? • • • Julia Mitchell

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