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Be broken.

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by Mira Allen. 

 

Cry chocolate, bleed rubies.

Watch the sea turn to glass.

Butterflies for breakfast, caterpillars for dinner.

Rinse. Repeat.

 

Don’t be surprised when you find lint-sized stars in your emptied pockets.

That crushing silence is full of pollen. Remove the noose from its neck.

The only comprehensive removal of sins involves a potato masher.

By nature, this method is not very precise.
Find the night that smells like velvet.

Its orbiting planets expel the labored breath of crumbling stone and grinding fire. Hold tight.

If you have never seen the landscape of your origins, construct an intricate imprint to carry with you at all times. Do not share the details haphazardly.
Be prepared to ooze your rules all over the table. Watch them pool on the floor.
Love ferociously. Forgive in the same manner.

an excerpt from Lily the Silent: The History of Arcadia.

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by Tod Davies with illustrations by Mike Madrid Chapter Twenty-Three What can I tell about the Mermaids and the Mermaids’ Deep? Everyone knows the nursery tales. Or should. On the other hand, it occurs to me that so many true and useful things have been forgotten here in Arcadia, that it’s worth repeating the old, […]

The World Falls in Love.

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by Kelsey Liu. Every year the planet falls in and out of love with itself. It starts with spring, like it always does. The Earth gives itself flowers every day in hopes of winning its heart: roses, lilies, even petunias. It gets constantly rejected by coy frosts, but perseveres by making the trees bud green, symbols […]

Mermaids Reading.

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by David Gordon. Once there were two beautiful mermaids, mother and daughter, who roamed the salt seas. They swam gracefully through the waves and beneath the water’s surface. Warm ocean currents carried them along and they covered great distances very quickly. They never went on shore, but sometimes swam close to land to sun themselves […]

The Mermaid in the Mikveh.

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by Alena Deerwater. Oy! The year of my thirty-ninth birthday I gifted myself three days with a hoard of Jewish women in the woods sans children.  At the time my daughters were seven and four and my entire life. This was the first time I was leaving them for more than twenty-four hours. I could […]

Kinfolk in Kelp.

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by Marie Davis & Margaret Hultz. Mona was an upstream mermaid, the kind of fish and woman who when swimming along, if she found life pleasantly passing, would swish tail to fin and begin swimming in the opposite direction. Obvious to all, Mona, with her fragrant curves snuggled in sea kelp, was only at home […]

Larissa and the Mermaids.

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by Teresa Milbrodt. I spent four summers with the mermaids, seven of them with gray curls and glistening green tails who sat at the city pool and played in the shallow end with little kids, yelling at them not to run too fast along the pool’s edge, applauding them when they did underwater handstands, and […]

To Race the Wind.

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by Joseph Grant Thoughts of the very bad years were never far behind, Ume recognized as he ran. These contemplations were a part of him as certainly his body, his mind and his soul. These memories were still alive even though long since passed. No matter what Ume tried to forget them, they invaded his […]

WHAT MOVIE?

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by David D. Horowitz The May Day rioters wear black hoodies, black jeans, and black shoes, and carry poles and rods with which they systematically, in a team of six or seven, smash plate-glass windows of various downtown Seattle stores. Their faces are masked. Perhaps their purposes are, as well. Have they joined the protest […]

Subtitles.

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by Harvey Lillywhite WARNING: Objects may appear more distant in the mirror The world we experience is a foreign movie. Subtitles help us understand what’s going on. But they are never a direct translation. We may see a character’s lips moving for several minutes but read only, “Help me!” Or we may see a look […]