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Stories

Poetry
You walk into your gramma’s kitchen only once for the last time.
Story of the Week
As soon as I heard his voice, I felt as if a wind had swept through my head.
What is the nature of this food language?
Poem of the Week
Each year we fail to imagine how the days will blanch, the air will harden.
Poem of the Week
May the dice throw their combinations at night. May it be June then July.
Poetry
I only divine the cat’s location when I hear its small cough.
Poem of the Week
A camper fighting off a grizzly until someone can shoot it dead.
Poem of the Week
It’s not the sun and all its colonies that miss you—it’s the frailest barriers.
Story of the Week
Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live without really living.
Story of the Week
We agreed: no hearts, no flowers, just courteous, no-strings sex.
Graphic Stories
She’s a blushing peach waiting to be plucked by practiced hands.
Poetry Contest Winners
He was a child. He was dead. He was the shaft of a Long-tailed Astrapia.
Story of the Week
It had always been this way. Mothering, for my mother, was a cameo role.
Narrative High School Writing Contest
My brush dissects her slick-back black hair to expose ugly white.
Story of the Week
I was free. The first step had been taken, and it was irrevocable.
Poem of the Week
It’s a small deposit, but I’m putting my faith in reincarnation.
Poem of the Week
You’re certain that they’re harmless, benign as a flock of founding fathers.
Nonfiction
She looked at him with sorrow, and surprise, despite all the news.
Poem of the Week
I lost my pen, I lost my keys, and my hat somewhere on a table.
Poetry
On Saturdays I listen to folk music, lead a life devoted to exodus.
Poetry
I’ve left a casement open disclosing the lording Hudson in its net of lead.
Poetry
I can only say I am here searching solo for remnants of Seoul Drive
iPoems
I could untie Minnie’s silk, restitch it into places I’ve lived.
iStories
In the story she was a dripping, chocolate-covered vamp.
iPoems
She sits in her wax like a candle. A woman comes, a woman goes.
Poem of the Week
I want my former costar Glenn Close to call me “charm personified.”
Classics
There’s something I saw at the race meeting I can’t figure out.
Poetry Contest Winners
When I was a woman, I was all reason and my reason was unjust.