My Summer Behind the Iron Curtain

Sara Graefe

No Skylab buzz in East Germany.

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Gabrielle Marceau

Essays

Main Character

I always longed to be the falling woman—impelled by unruly passion, driven by beauty and desire, turned into stone, drowned in flowers.

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David Sheskin

Dispatches

PRESS 1 IF

PRESS 1 IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE BIG BANG.

Kris Rothstein

Reviews

DEFINED BY DUMPLINGS

Review of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings" edited by John Lorinc.

CHARLES BROWN

fiction

Things That Scatter

Half a breath is all it takes, in or out.

Sneha Subramanian Kanta

Poetry

A Love Poem, Also a Physics Poem

... I showed you / a video of faint sunsets dawning from / Ochil Hills, and my momentum when / travelling upward, against gravity ...

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Emily Chou

Comics

My Dad's Brother

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

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Geist 126

Notes & Dispatches from KELLY BOUCHARD, DAYNA MAHANNAH and ERNIE KROEGER; New fiction by KATE CAYLEY; Feature essays from JOSEPH PEARSON and JEROME STUEART; Poetry by EVELYN LAU and EM DIAL, and much more!

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