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Fiction issue 33

The Other Side of a Fourth-Place Medal

by Christa Rohrbach The Other Side of a Fourth-Place Medal You are 18 months old when your first hairs sprout. Your mother is ecstatic when she sees them: three tiny, fair, and thin little hairs that were somehow able to pierce through the smooth porcelain of your scalp. She thinks maybe you will stop being […]

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Creative Nonfiction issue 33

The Sun is Down

by Randy Smith The Sun is Down The nandina’s briolette-cut leaves and conical white flowering spires paste their dreamy selves against the night in a spellbound collage.    Collage meaning a jumbled collection of impressions, events,      and styles, from French meaning “to glue.”    Night is a pastiche of memory, even when it is the […]