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The Carousel.

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by Marissa Bell Toffoli.

Gallops circles through time.
Tinny music forever the same.
Blow a kiss, send them off.
When they look back,
will they see me waving?
Bobbing on winged horses
frozen in flight. In sight,
out of sight, in, out.
Once more around. Down, up.
A beginning for every end—
we’re chasing our own shadows.

Jake and the Rat.

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by Denis Bell. Jake walks into the hall and comes across a staircase that he had not noticed before. The staircase leads to a suite of lavishly furnished rooms. This old house of his is grander than he had known! One of the rooms contains a row of beds, all made up. Like a ward […]

Multitude.

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by Chris Farago. I thought an incandescent poultice was the solution for exhaustion; I thought the ladies of the manor would heal this aching toe; I thought the levers pulled in the proper order would reveal Heaven— I thought— I thought—

Parvin Paidar and Post-patriarchal Islam.

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by Brian Griffith. In most countries or cultures around the world, women show more interest in religion than men. Women are more likely to follow a spiritual path, pray every day, or visit churches, mosques, and shrines. We may assume they are blindly following the directions of male religious leaders, but more likely they have […]

San Miguel Cemetery, Málaga, Spain.

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by Jeff Schiff. Tucked now between a dog park and bazars the province of Chinese expats in a grove of peppery Seville orange the predictable Andalusian suspects Garcia Fernandez Velázquez Giménez Animas Saenz scores of Velascos Riveras and Alvaros a gauntlet of now rounded marble mausoleums and flaked iron work and many beneath my feet […]

Rivers, Lakes, and Seas.

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by David D. Horowitz. “The atmosphere of Titan is largely nitrogen…” I bite into my snack, a honeycrisp apple fresh from a local QFC market, as I begin to absorb the information in the Wikipedia entry for “Titan,” Saturn’s biggest moon and the only moon anywhere known to have a dense atmosphere. How could I […]

The End User, Feodora.

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by Colin Dodds. By the time Feodora had visited the last of the best and brightest doctors with their enormous machines, and absurd healers with their enormous claims, the family jet seemed like another hospital hallway to her. But among the most optimistic and grandiose of the experts she met, her condition made even the […]

The Guitar Hero Goes Home.

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by Marilyn Jaye Lewis. IT’S JUST LIKE THEY SAY IT IS. You’re floating. You’re going to the light. And then you’re looking down on yourself, at all the men, slamming the palms of their hands into your chest with all the strength they’ve got. I could hear them talking, calling to me to come back. […]

The Worm in the Apple of Modern Capitalism.

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by John Brodix Merryman. The success of capitalism is that it functions as an ecosystem, with individuals, businesses, communities, governments and other entities as the organisms making it up. As in nature, these entities are constantly tested against one another. There is no singular control, other than the medium that connects it all together. Money. […]

Denny Donohue’s Ghost.

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by Tod Davies. I’ve been a chronic insomniac since I was a little girl, so it wasn’t strange that I was wide-awake that particular Tuesday night.  What was strange was that Denny Donahue’s ghost was there, too. I wasn’t scared, which you might think was strange, too — especially since I live in the woods, […]