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A Brief History Of Cola by Glen Armstrong

Though cola is undeniably a cultural construct and any modern, identifiable culture should be able to construct a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine, to speak of “xenophobic [...]

September 2, 2016

Spill by Karie Fugett

April 1, 2015

The day my husband died, April 20, 2010, BP oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico. I was told about the spill weeks later, [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

May 29, 2016

Music And Lyrics By I was there I was there I was There I was there I was there when The clouds were melting icebergs [...]
What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

March 16, 2017

who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are [...]
two poems by liz minette

August 1, 2015

After After you died, your house was still a mess; like always, always when we’d come over, you’d say [...]
Family of Four Lokos by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

February 26, 2017

Stephanie, John, and Hector spent an evening in early July selling their art on a sidewalk in Old City. The money – all [...]
On a Photograph Never Taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Friends, Manhattan, May 1, 1920 by Benjamin Goluboff

September 2, 2016

Fifth Avenue had been cleared and they drove Stanley Dell’s Buick twelve blocks down the parade route before a cop [...]
Turtle and Hare by Chloe Clark

April 1, 2014

If loss were a mathematical concept— a subtraction, a division, a formula for invisible numbers, then how does one [...]
Two Poems by Michelle Watters

August 1, 2015

moon goddess moonlights as a suburban housewife she could be drawing down the moon but instead she loads the dishwasher [...]
The Morning of the Day by Lee Foust

April 1, 2014

I half sat/half lay propped up on a pillow in bed looking out the bay window in the nearest corner of Betty’s large [...]
How (Not) To Do What I Did by Jennifer Chardon

August 1, 2014

Quit everything. Tell your high school boyfriend you can’t stare at the same ocean forever. Buy a one-way ticket. [...]
Sharing Music by Emily Alexander

September 2, 2016

Dark morning reaches through windows until the sky is smudged silver like the teakettle on the back burner. Here is the slip [...]
You Will Drink by Eric Boyd

June 1, 2014

It is the end of the night. A man you hardly know, a new dishwasher at the restaurant you have been at for two years too [...]

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