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July 4, 2025 | Fiction

Read Sheet [DWJTM]

Ben Jahn

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Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram account (@shortflightlongdrive). Come for the cougar stalking the line between avant-tasteful and not not ironic literary hot mom, stay for zooming in on the books in the background. Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram. I’m liking it for the captions.

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July 3, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

Philip Traylen

But there’s no cup, no / kitchen. Just one mouldy / statue, dreaming of television.

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July 3, 2025 | Fiction

Sham Life

Leo Lasdun

My surroundings, though I’d moved through them prolifically as a child, seemed then like an opaque screen placed there to conceal something from me

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July 2, 2025 | Poetry

Two Poems

Elly Katz

Torn textbooks at Widener Library or seeping 
Inkwells those Cajal axons 

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ALL-AMERICAN JESUS

Jan E. Mehmedović

out in the Everglades, no resurrection
just a rotting boy's corpse

July 1, 2025 | Poetry

Nine Poems

Jerome Kookan

the day i was born i was yellow and poisoned and anxious.
and they put me under a sunlamp and burned it out of me.

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Ceramics

Alpha Zhang

On the train to Avenue du Roi Albert, I knew that this would be the last time I would see her. Feeling time slip over my fingertips like waterflow, I decided I would savor the experience as fully as I

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