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Why I Don’t Have A Tattoo by Stuti Srivastava

I don’t have a tattoo because I don’t want one, I tell everyone. That’s a lie. I have wanted a tattoo since I first saw a person up close with a tattoo of their choice instead of “Amarendu’s wife” scribbled in Hindi on the right arm of Kanti’s mother, packing her nameless being into a husband-shaped box, locking it up, and tossing away the key. A tattoo of belonging, but not ...


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Rewind by Cole Beauchamp

I have something to tell you, my husband says, but I’m not listening. I’m trying to shift the stone lodged in my mountain boot. Rain has slicked the narrow path covered in last year’s crushed leaves and we’re on a steep descent.

More words tumble out of his mouth: didn’t mean anything, didn’t want to hurt you, didn’t think, didn’t blah blah blah.

I watch him spe...


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In the Dark by Chelsea Stickle

There are things that are easier to say in the dark. Things that bubble and ferment inside until we’re drunk with distended stomachs. Exhaustion rolls in like the tide. We beg for sleep and prostrate ourselves before the deities of the dark. When that fails, twisting and turning, we bump into each other and all that bubbling and fermentation overpowers our barriers. In the da...


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Subway Surfing by Mizuki Yamamoto

Children throw their bodies into darkness, daring each other, further, surfing steel, blurring through tunnels, daring their bodies, further, further towards somewhere that is nowhere but feels like something, their lives linear, their stories circular, their bodies just a small vantage point in time and space. Beyond their outstretched hands is the beginnin...


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The Sunken Kingdom of Atlantis Starts to Make Some Waves by Stephen J. Bush

We’d been off the main route by ourselves in the Conservation and Marine Science Zone, and you’d been saying how we didn’t want to miss it as back at the main tank there’d be the mermaid show soon, but we’d been lucky arriving there as it was quieter and not as appealing to children, and as it happened the aquarium had set aside a pregnant seahorse for monitoring and I’d been...


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