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The Sentence Thief

Mar 17, 2014

Essay by Christine Grimaldi

You'd think it would be easy to write a bad sentence—but that takes just as much work.

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Deaf Uncle

Mar 03, 2014

TW Prizewinning Flash Fiction by Charlotte M. Porter

His father, Ronald “Beau” Rutledge, III, pronounced coin like co-win although he didn’t care a fig for teamwork.

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How a Literary Critic Slapped Me Awake

Feb 14, 2014

"My Favorite Critic" by David Meischen

Leslie Fiedler took the blinders off me and said, 'Look, the myths we live by, our secret longings—the great books lay them bare.'

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I Know What Poetry Can Do

Feb 03, 2014

Memorial Essay by Martha Nichols

He clutched my hand, and I felt his fingers bucking. They were always in motion, but my father held on as hard as he could.

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Wish I Could Quit You

Jan 08, 2014

Essay by Steve Adams

For days, weeks, even months, you slog onward as if hacking through switchgrass with a machete.

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