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exhausted like a French arthouse film
there’s always a male and female lead
reuniting for us
(TCTC translations/poetry)
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The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books:
Tamil and English and a love of Jesus, porumaiyin sikaram, the pinnacle of patience, were drilled into them.
(fiction)
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books:
But in 1961, basketball coaches had yet to become gods. His office was only a little larger than a janitor’s closet.
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Like a twig afloat on a sea of dirty towels, the feeling inside me, laid out on the countertop of my soul, filleted and sweating in the humid air. And yet, wonder eludes the twirling gearhulk of my heart.
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It is disrespectful to sleep over the stones / of the insane without dreaming our dreams.
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as if it matters / that you drowned in freshwater, tap water, or first / in yourself.
(poetry)
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“But when Flora dried off, put on her housecoat and entered the bedroom, she was not prepared for what she saw.”
(fiction)
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“an archipelago: / a chain of islands / and also, / what contains them”
(poetry)
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“And what if dying is like / that time I got out of school early / because I had an appointment”
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“I spoke the least of my fears for him then. Although his excesses scared me, I usually said nothing against his inordinate feasts.”
(fiction)
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“They had traveled through miles and miles of empty land in the dark, a vast empty space between national borders.”
(fiction)
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“Do you know what it means to be glorious in a way / even God doesn’t see?”
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“every long night before I met you // every long night when I wanted you”
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“Once upon a time, long ago in northern Hungary, the land of the Matyó, a beautiful boy and girl were deeply in love.”
(fiction)
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“She didn’t think it would last, this quasi-détente or halfhearted madness or whatever it was.”
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“I licked every word in the story, to know its taste”
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“Maybe the remnant tells the whole / story”
“Shame and living, living with it, living through it, living past it. This is what these stories are made of.”
(reviews)
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“I collected dresses many sizes / Larger, dreamed of all the bodies crowded into those // Forms.”
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“Outside, harmonious cats / tread the pathway.”
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“From space you can see the shimmer / of the thousands of immigrant children / wrapped in tinfoil sleeping on the desert // sand”
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“We didn’t think to ask / what we might lose, / what it would cost us”
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“I fell in love with a sweet-lipped / bitter-eyed / girl from Balkh”
(poetry)
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“The rooms become increasingly more expensive, as one gets closer to the Abyss.”
(fiction)
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“I am doing well, but soon I feel / the rolling thunder of an evil rudo / with a toxic fanbase”
(poetry)
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“Folklore across the African diaspora maintains that captive Africans were born with the ability to fly.”
(nonfiction)
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“No, I went through one marriage,” Aunt Mildred insisted to the jury of her siblings. “I won’t make that mistake again.”
(nonfiction)
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“Don’t Forget To Be Awesome. Okay. Working on it…”
(poetry)
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“There isn’t any us, baby.”
(fiction)
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