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Creative Nonfiction Volume 36

Phantom Pain

by Michael Chin Phantom Pain I thought autobiography might afford me immortality. Facile as it seems now, the idea felt profound. After all, each time I immersed myself in the scene of a good book, it felt as though that moment had a sort of life to it, reanimated if only in my imagination, remembered […]

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Hybrid Volume 36

Warning Signs Your Guy Friend is a Garden Variety Creep: What You Should Know and Next Steps

by Candace Angelica Walsh Warning Signs Your Guy Friend is a Garden Variety Creep: What You Should Know and Next Steps Ethically Reviewed by peers of Author on October 29th, 2024 Written by: Candace Angelica Walsh (she/her) 15 min read Garden Variety Creep /noun/:  A person masquerading as a friend to have greater access to you, […]

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Poetry Volume 36

Anti-Elegy

by Jonathan Aibel Anti-Elegy Beyond the scrim, do the deadremember?  If so, let her remember some other child,the one she wanted, a girl, too good to writeon walls, who didn’t hide in her room, unwillingto talk.  I don’t want to make her into a saint —fold my memory in half, fold the corners, a paperairplane, […]