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Jennifer Gossoo

To prove my wolfishness, I shucked my skate shoes and went barefoot on the pine needles

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Soraya Roberts

Essays

Silver & Blue

Did you hear that the railway built Canada? That’s probably all you heard

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Quade Hermann

Dispatches

The Gist of Everything

My mother stands at the top of the stairs, thin as a skeleton and reeking of booze. “Are you drunk?” I ask. “No,” she says. “Have you had anything to drink today?” “No,” she says. Lies, all lies. There are always more.

Michael Hayward

Reviews

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar

October 21, 2005, marked the 200th anniversary of the great naval battle of Trafalgar, an engagement in which Admiral Nelson and the British fleet ended Napoleon’s dream of invading England by crushing the French and Spanish fleets off the southwest

Finnian Burnett

fiction

Rejoice in His Name

He shreds the envelope until Sarah becomes arah, then rah, then nothing

Guy Elston

Poetry

Marooned

The heat and the stars, everywhere

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CM Wain

Comics

COVID Cryptid

I'd step onto the boat and watch all my suffering recede into the horizon

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Notes & Dispatches from EMILY MOORE, SAGE TYRTLE, IAN ROY, and JESS HOUSTY; New fiction by ALEX LESLIE; Feature essays from KATE REIDER COLLINS and NIKKI CELIS; Poetry by JADE RIORDAN and ERIN VOSTERS; and much more!

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