Sink Hollow Content Issue Spring 2022

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A Short Memoir of Two Houses Vinn McBride, First Place 1.

The house on B Road went up for sale maybe a year after he exhaled his last on the kitchen floor. It was a great old house, a true old house the kind of old domicile that only gets sold to people who eke out soil-living. The poverty of it, the flaws in the crafting— intolerable. Great old house. Cellar-with-a-lifting-door hardwood-floor-with-rugs, taxidermy-mounted-gaping-heads bedroom-with-bed-on-floor, great-upstairs-rooms-with-sliding-doors pine-painted-oak, century-turn luxury. Great old house. She learned to hate it, I think, she had to go, I know, she fled and took her brother with her, and safely built a new fair lodging with great lifted ceilings, hardwood floors space galore, a basement you can breathe in- no ghosts of the past, too young to be a haunted house. Great Uncle never spoke about life with grandpa, but his eyes twitched tight when in conversation he came up— careful, thoughtful Uncle, 6’4” to his baby sister at a spare 5’4”, [ 86 ]

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Goodbye, my Birds

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What I Make My Self

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Phoebe

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Letting In the Goddess

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pages 120-123

Chicken Coop

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pages 116-118

Mo(u)rning Song

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Butterfly Kiss

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The Age of a Tree

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Mismatched

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gravity

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imposter syndrome

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Humor Me

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Soft Bitched Brain

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A Short Memoir of Two Houses

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construction work

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fresh cut distress

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Pining for Homework

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Baby Kitten McBride (?-July 24, 2021

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Blackberry Magic

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Toothsome

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pages 48-56

Deus Ex Machina

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“Wistful Blues” / Noelani Hadfield / Honorable Mention

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Do Robots Dream of Electric Horse Debugger?

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“Spring on the Brain”

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“The Consequence of Being Human”

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Däremellan

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The Woodworker’s Heart

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