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EACH WORD HOLDS THE WORLD by Joe Wilkins
The sky gray as dishrags, she wore anyway cutoffs and a pink bikini top, black mascara, inked snake forever curling up her thigh. As if to gather up some secret sun, she leaned into the fence. Then slipped a menthol between her lips. More than once I’ve seen her leg her way into a rust-bitten […]
LIKE A TIGER by Maya Kóvskaya
The waiting is intolerable in the soupy Beijing heat of Liang Huiping’s sixth floor flat. She glares at the hourglass spinning endlessly on her computer. The screen glares back—a palimpsest of her warped reflection in the curved glass of the monitor, superimposed on her Instant Messenger. She clamps her legs together and squeezes, looking down at her black […]
What I Know about My Mother
by Graham Guest
(1) I know she was born on January 19, 1923, and she will die in the Fall of 2008, at eighty- five years old. (2) I know she was originally from New Jersey, maybe near Teaneck. (3) I know there was a black and white photograph taken of her naked on a leopard-skin rug in […]