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Three lyric essays by Liam Strong
we will always be /bIe/ after Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal always look at “b” for baby or bye-bye or boy. (the voiced bilabial stop of /b/ is a...
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- 3 days ago
- 4 min
"Liminal Losses" by Shelley Gaske
7:30 am “What’s your name for your coffee order?” She waits, expecting something she’ll misspell anyway. My government name? Nickname?...
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- 3 days ago
- 3 min
The Child by Tyler Vaughn Hayes
We were paired by default, Hannah and me. That’s what happens when you’re in kindergarten and too shy to pick your own partner. Our...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Options" by Emily Shawn
I’m in the passenger seat in his car on our way back from Mount Cannon, my legs feel like jelly and all I want to do is peel off my socks...
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Broadkill Review
- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
“Harry the Habit Breaker” by Bethany Bruno
In the fall of 1993, Sheridan Park Elementary in Hollywood, Florida, hastily created a mandatory in-school assembly on the dangers of...
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Broadkill Review
- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Games of Chance" by Evan Gurney
What does one do after brain surgery? Back at home from hospital I couldn’t look at screens. I couldn’t read. I couldn’t walk more than...
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Broadkill Review
- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
"Anaphylaxis" by Joanna Acevedo
Anaphylaxis Limbic resonance—I often know when he’s not feeling well, even before he tells me—I know when something’s wrong, the way a...
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Broadkill Review
- Jul 18, 2021
- 8 min
"Photo Synthesis" by Elise Seyfried
#1 Berrigan and the Bambino It’s not even the original photo. Some relative at some point scanned a few copies and sent them around....
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Broadkill Review
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
"The New Gary" by Jason M. Thornberry
When I was five, I found myself in the backseat of my stepfather's VW Bug as we hurried to the hospital. My stepfather was in the front...
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Broadkill Review
- Jul 1, 2021
- 12 min
"Deca-meron" by Alexandria Peary
“How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it.” Kenneth...
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Broadkill Review
- May 2, 2021
- 8 min
"From There" by Cheryl Sadowski
When you drive north on Virginia State Route 15, the first indicator you are anywhere at all is Point of Rocks Bridge. The concrete maze...
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Broadkill Review
- Apr 1, 2021
- 5 min
"parasites" by cindi camponotus*
the morning is hot. perspiration covers the barren ground. gray clay blotched with umber and burnt sienna is sanded with quartz grains....
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Broadkill Review
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
"A Walk in the Park" by Robert Angell
Before the AIDS vigil, a stranger showed me how to poke a hole in the bottom of the paper cup and slowly slide the candle through so the...
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- Jul 19, 2020
- 8 min
"Bosom Buddies" by Jan Schmidt
"We’ll always be bosom buddies Friends, neighbors, and pals." Mame As my husband plays “Bosom Buddies” from Mame on YouTube on his IPAD,...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 11 min
"My Huge Basketball IQ" by Jason Koo
Finally finished “The Origin of the Work of Art,” which is not an essay but a confrontation: you have to be engaged with it at all times...
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