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Contributed By: Anthony Key
Issue 8 Summer 2014 HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has also been accorded a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Oxford American, Waccamaw, and Southern […]
When I close my eyes I see the child in me hug the hour hand licked by the flame of memory emerging in stark darkness a faint light filters through cracks a half-open door frames a shadow tiptoeing to make the moment endure some nights fired tesserae reassemble the father who left too […]
In the beginning, there was an angel with cloven feet who stood by me, and the angel said, My wings are an ocean, and its shoulders split until feathers fell around us. This is how you leave your country. On the back of an ocean. Choked with feathers. _ If someone gives you water, drink. And if […]