AmLit Fall 2021

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Fall 2021

Finding Ashley Hocking Before the atoms shift, my foot lands in the grasses A molecule of being That travels roads and pounces On sinking momentary blips And embellished cottage houses My body flows through the present And passes out on strangers’ couches The sky a dusky blue With moonlight in the brambles Curled blackberry flowers in heavy air With dust blown up from grit and gravel Bird songs and pleasant sights And yet I power past it: The questions, the memories, the challenges, But most of all the masses Of moments past and future yearnings That wrap my heart inside a makeshift casket Of lies that I have never lived And will never find satisfaction And so I breathe the inescapable air That reeks of rot and sweet disaster And exhale filtered release that begs from my next breath To be Of peace and love and laughter-Instead of what would rather Swaddle my mind in weeds, Gently bury my heart down under, And whisper the myth that after all There is no happily ever after.

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the effects of distance: a series of love letters — Sydney Muench

5min
pages 101-106

Not a Nightmare — Kaitlyn Newport

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page 97

manic pixie nightmare — Olivia Wenke

2min
page 94

The People in That Car Must Be Dead — Max Robins

2min
page 93

Mother — Gracie Donovan

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page 89

I Love Long Titles But I Can Never Be Clever So, Here It Is You Bastards — Ray Koffink

1min
page 84

Shadow Puppet — Ashley Hocking

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page 87

First Supper — Vishwa Bhatt

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page 86

February, 2009 — Gracie Donovan

1min
page 81

Zeyde’s Big Day — Max Robins

5min
pages 78-79

Beautiful Things — Annie Przypyszny

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page 76

the green interlude — McKenna Casey

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page 61

Dollar Value — Abby Grifno

2min
page 65

milk carton portrait — Alexia Partouche

1min
page 59

How Do I Tell You — Rhys Allison

2min
page 53

Dog World — Hope Neyer

1min
page 54

White Dust — Natalie Flynn

1min
page 46

perfect places — Trevor Luciani

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page 51

Dreaming of a Spanish Morning — Lindsey McCormack

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page 45

Mango Juice — Maite Ramos

1min
page 40

if you’re reading this i’m alive — McKenna Casey

1min
page 39

Untitled — Noah Fischer

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page 34

Ghost Story — Vishwa Bhatt

1min
page 36

Finding — Ashley Hocking

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page 35

Cicadas Hum Psalms — Annika Rennaker

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page 28

Call Me Shallow — Liah Argiropoulos

3min
page 31

And So I Do, And So I Do — Ray Koffink

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page 26

bittersweet — McKenna Casey

1min
page 25

On a Hill in Vermont — Lindsey McCormack

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page 18

Tongue Twister — Jamie Klinger

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page 16

I’m Thinking — Annie Przypyszny

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page 22

Skeletal Remains — Hannah Sjovold

2min
page 12

Ode to the Closet — Jamie Klinger

3min
pages 10-11

At the Wild Reef Exhibit — Annie Przypyszny

1min
page 15

A Premonition of Philophobia — Callie Lau

1min
page 20

Sapphic x3 — Gracie Donovan

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