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If I were a fjord,

Kathleen Nalley   I’d be forged by ice segregation, a- brasion, glacial e- rosion. Sill or shoal at the mouth. Reef or skerry. I’d be a menace to navi- gation, a gener- ous fishing ground, a glacially long val- ley…

Concentric

Kathleen Nalley   Around 11:30 p.m., after the Ringling Brothers Circus, a newborn was found by a janitor in the toilet at the Bilo Center in Greenville, S.C.   Maybe the plunge from one body of water into another didn’t…

Ten Reasons Why I Can’t Have Your Baby

Lauren Housman   1. Because one day I’ll be standing in line somewhere and some presumptive, baby-loving, beyond-middle-aged woman (the same sort you overhear asking people about their grandchildren and, when she hears there aren’t any, moans “Oh, I’m so…

Play Date

Megan Pinto   Even as children we were more exposed, less beautiful at night. You remember what it was like, there, hidden under thin blankets in the summer when we wanted to sleep naked or float on rafts in your…

Sunday School

Megan Pinto   These men in robes they told us once: the very nature of sin is contagious. One coughed in his hand and blessed the bread, God’s body is not contagious.   They spoke of a snake racing through…