“Scorpion Diary” by Melissa Olson-Petrie
Intro question option 1: Your worst or grossest job? Example: Sterile processing technician (cleaning bloody surgical instruments). Intro question option 2: Your most interesting…
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“Blood Stains, Flame Tree” by Efe Rosario
There were at least eight of us around the flame tree. I can only remember William and Albert, who lived right below the apartment…
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“The Sky is a Time Machine” by Kilmeny MacMichael
On the other side of a screen, forty-one walking days away, a woman begins to explain something we can’t really explain at all. She…
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“To Tend” by Ocean Wei
One: To Bear, To Tend Bear with me: I feel like a salmon flipping on a wooden cutting board. You might think about the…
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“The Summer Sauce” by Sara Rauch
One mid-August evening, a month into our endless summer, a few weeks before I was set to move to Manhattan, I arrived to Sebastian’s…
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“Headlands” by Matt Mitchell
I don’t remember the last time I saw my father, much less the last words we spoke. I don’t remember what his note said,…
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“Genealogy” by Ira Sukrungruang
My wife Deedra waves her hands at the other end of the Delaware County Public Library to get my attention. It isn’t an easy…
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“Stone Fruit” by Jamie Cattanach
A boy in the desert painted my picture once. He was living in a tent. There was snow on the ground, but he’d taken…
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“Chrysalis” by Sheree
Golden sunlight bears the heat of tempered metal when I land at Norman Manley, and all the protection I have is the small shadow…
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“When Shame Comes Over” by Amanda Gaines
Shame wants you to paint her toes with green glitter polish. She wants goose-down pillows, matching silk pajama sets you wish you could afford.
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