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The only flowers you can’t pick on the island are wood lilies. They shoot out of the ground in clusters, orange with
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Clatter-drawn, drawn by hail.In rain the stones go soft and feral.You’re ferocious in trauma’s pelt,prickly skins each generationpasses down, heavy and re-stitched.
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What Happens in Hour Four? I’m paying attention to the lyrics in this song which go you can’t…always get…what you want… but
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Dirty light in the tiny hours. Rubbed myself off on a fire hydrant in the shadows. For want of a more accessible
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The theme of this special issue was inspired, in part, by a late night Google search a few years ago. Amidst growing
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Sarah Ruth Bates interviews EXTINCTION contest judge Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Reckonings.
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Winner of the EXTINCTION Essay Contest, selected by Lacy M. Johnson
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Venita Blackburn, author of the short story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (her 2017 debut, published as a result of her
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"I feel that one of my missions in life is to chip away at the idea of human exceptionalism, the idea that
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By Abby Dockter I am on another plane trip. Patchwork farms, webs of highways, wide rivers and furry green mountains, all pierced
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The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a
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