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Issue 82

Featuring new stories by Lydi Conklin, Annie Liontas, Kyle McCarthy, Carrie R. Moore, KJ Nakazawa-Kern, and Colleen Rosenfeld.

Stories

When We Go, We Go Downstream

In the restaurant’s fading light, he tells the story to his woman. Warily, the way his father told it to him: There once lived a man named Elijah. A man who, among many other things—blacksmith, singer, lover of russet pears—had…

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Sorry About the Wolf

I studied your pictures for hours. Hours over weeks, because it took that long to arrange a date. Not because of you, because of me—in the aftermath of my breakup, I spent long days on worthless magazine pitches: tired ones…

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