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The Compass Turns Thrice
Time is wobbling the way compass points hover or spin for no rhyme or reason on ... Keep Reading -
ROSIE GOLDSTEIN WAS A DOG
In the fourth grade, boys in the town of Huntington Harbor started to notice which girls ... Keep Reading -
The Mothers
I learned there are three ways to make money. Get more people to buy, get people ... Keep Reading -
LOVE-YOU-LOTS
He’s got that new song by The Streets stuck in his head, the one with the ... Keep Reading -
A Tyranny of Wind
“Weather is immune to history, law, diplomacy, and sometimes even reason…” ... Keep Reading -
SHAMU CAM
Shamu Cam came live from Shamu’s tank at Sea World, Orlando…. ... Keep Reading -
The Mist
“I can still taste the shock of it, hot like gulped coffee, and underneath feel my ... Keep Reading -
THE SNAKE
I once lived in a three-bedroom unit in an elegant condominium with white paint in Simei, ... Keep Reading -
TIME TRAVELING UNCLE
He first disappears just before I am born. I have no memory of it, of course, ... Keep Reading -
Getting By, Going By
This morning she pushes a clump of matted hair away from her face as she watches ... Keep Reading -
THE CASHMERE CLOAK
Out on the front patio of the old coffee shop — they meet here every day, ... Keep Reading -
Outsider, Insider
“Excuse me,” I began, wearing a smile I tried my best to make amiable rather than ... Keep Reading -
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, LOVER OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
I drove a different way, the last time, taking a road that turned out not to ... Keep Reading -
TOMORROW I SHALL BE FETTERLESS-BUT WHERE?
I would question the sanity of anyone who’s not questioning their own sanity nowadays, Doctor, but ... Keep Reading -
Sickle Claws: Hesperonychus Monstrous
A macabre, disturbing story of monsters and mothers.
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Momma’s a Butcher
We are going somewhere far: a dark tale of blood and knives. ... Keep Reading -
MAGPIE
I could hear them every day. Sometimes they sounded like little horses cantering around on the ... Keep Reading -
A Very Open Letter from Donald Hump
This very open letter is not only for fake democrats but also proud republicans who have ... Keep Reading -
Bad Research
A humorous take on a writer who manipulates life for his art and its ramifications. ... Keep Reading -
TOLSTOY VISITS HIS STEPMOM
The weather had turned for the better since the last night. She had retired to her ... Keep Reading -
Twisting the Reels
There’s nothing to spill, but it rolls across my uneven floor to the opposite corner of ... Keep Reading -
Van Gogh Unbound
Art as therapy is explored in this personal essay about loss. ... Keep Reading -
MEDUSA GOES TO MORRISONS — BY EMILIA ONG
It’s terrible, you see they’ve started using paper bags at the supermarket. Brown paper bags. Well ... Keep Reading -
Bradley Beach
A story about love and faith and reconciling with a dark secret from the past. ... Keep Reading -
Feelin’ like a Criminal: Trauma in ‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple
‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple, encompassing #MeToo and Lolita along the way. ... Keep Reading -
KEEP YOUR KNICKERS ON
As a teen, I was obsessed with my knickers, whether to allow boys into them and ... Keep Reading -
GLUE
She had been collecting supplies for some time: fabric, yarn, scissors, and glue. Strong glue. She ... Keep Reading -
Unicorn Cake
Are you one of the weird kids, too? A birthday party and a new friend. ... Keep Reading -
The Frugal Repast
It was a mistake because no matter how many words I wrote, I couldn’t get any ... Keep Reading -
Hindsight 2020: Notes on the First Year of the Trump Presidency
An Essay exploring the national crisis of narrative spawned by the Trump era, and the way ... Keep Reading -
THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
All the zines were printed at Lehman Brothers. All the zines were printed at Goldman Sachs. ... Keep Reading -
The Supplicant
We are the tall glasses of water, the tailwinds, the firm handshakes. We are the deserving ... Keep Reading -
Lenin in the Sky
A young woman, in love, for the first time in New York, taking a stroll through ... Keep Reading -
The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times
Exploring the grey areas between literature and art, and also literature and culture. ... Keep Reading -
ON THE RECENT SERIES OF DISAPPEARANCES IN YOUR SMALL TOWN
In March, the snow melted, and the lake thawed, and we had to watch as these ... Keep Reading -
Guilty as Hell
Jury duty in a prairie town – crime in small-town America. ... Keep Reading -
Starchy
Leaning forward in a taupe leisure suit, customed by his goombah Tony the tailor on Mulberry ... Keep Reading -
VIEW OF THE POND
She watches the pond from the front of the house. Upstairs. Her bedroom. In a pause ... Keep Reading -
somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator
You know who doesn’t mind a high desert July? The scorpions. ... Keep Reading -
A CLEAN SHAVE
Theo II’s ghost haunts me most nights, ever since I found him hanging in the stables, ... Keep Reading -
We’ve Only Just Begun, Frankie
“We’ve only just begun to live White lace and promises A kiss for luck and we’re ... Keep Reading -
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RUINS
In this short piece, Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, Carol Bensimon, posits the life of a ... Keep Reading -
Chippendales
I felt bad about it in high school, my vanity. Now I wear it proudly. Why ... Keep Reading -
NAME HER FOR HOPE —
I was born at 6:04 p.m. on the 3rd day of the Moon’s skulking journey across ... Keep Reading -
A Legacy of Aunting in the Literary Community
It is steadfast. I know who I am for these kids – and through that sureness ... Keep Reading -
Catch and release
A story about two little girls going on a brief adventure. ... Keep Reading -
ARMBARS–IOWA CITY 1995
As I’d begun to do lately, get out paper, my stack of comics from under the ... Keep Reading -
Blocked
A writer, Violet, working from home with severe case of writer’s block who discovers the walls ... Keep Reading -
Coronavirus, or the voices to forget
Language is not neutral. It shapes what we can and can’t say, and how we say ... Keep Reading -
Neighbors
The blonde spent about half of each day out on that new porch. She was this ... Keep Reading -
AGAIN, YET AGAIN
I was sitting in the rail station waiting for the 10:30 to London when a mother ... Keep Reading -
The Gun
It wasn’t hers. Sue hadn’t wanted it, but there it was, on the seat beside her. ... Keep Reading -
Opera at the Bistro
She scared the shit out of everyone. Even our boss Kim rarely looked Amanda in the ... Keep Reading -
BAD QI
He licks her big toe, glides his tongue across the arch of her foot, softens the ... Keep Reading -
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The way the two women walk six feet apart, one on the sidewalk and the other ... Keep Reading -
Graffiti
Graffiti explores themes of in-between-ness and uncertainty, connections made and missed. ... Keep Reading -
Ace
The first time I tried to deepen our kisses, she pulled back uncertainly. ... Keep Reading -
Little America
A young woman grapples with loss and lack of direction in her life while driving across ... Keep Reading -
LIGHTING THE MATCH
All that winter we read Hannah Arendt, we read Men in Dark Times. ... Keep Reading -
Good Friday, 2020
An essay about the absurdities and beauties and strangeness of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Keep Reading -
Perfect Hair Day
All Val could see from the back of the conference room was row after row of ... Keep Reading -
M and M
“John? Ah hate to bother you. Ah’m callin from the ICU. They’re going to cut off ... Keep Reading -
And my life unfolds
A story that explores patriarchy and how it affects a woman’s life. Set in Assam, India. ... Keep Reading -
ARIANE
There’s this bizarro technique my doctor’s urging. It’s got a bunch of scientific terms that just ... Keep Reading -
Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)
For our pastime we go to the Zero-G Room and do a lot of fun things. ... Keep Reading -
Fry Person
On paper, Arman was not unlike the other applicants. His face, just like the others, was ... Keep Reading -
FISH
After eight weeks at home, my daughter alternated between lethargy and irritability. Between sleeping and meltdowns, ... Keep Reading -
Interiors
You are so beautiful it kills me, I said. I’m not, love, he said. Perhaps on ... Keep Reading -
Strange Waters
Mom says her father was an arsonist. She told me when I was eight. I sat ... Keep Reading -
Can’t You Do Something About This?
First, let me say of course I’m worried about all of it: the global warming, the ... Keep Reading -
IT WASN’T FOR ME
It’s the kind of intimacy usually shared by people who are fucking. Not mother and daughter. ... Keep Reading -
When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis
During the winter of ’98, I think I was in love or obsessed with Mother Teresa. ... Keep Reading -
euphoria
A person comes to terms with the communal experience of their gender. Acknowledging how they feel ... Keep Reading -
CUTTING TREES
My brother and I are surgeons. We spend our days in the woods by our home, ... Keep Reading -
Blood
Set during the EEE outbreak that gripped the Michigan region, a young man who, years after ... Keep Reading -
I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too
A Commentary on the #MeAt20 trend on Twitter which saw people posting photos of themselves at ... Keep Reading -
THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES
The pearls had already seen much catastrophe. They were happy in the Jesus Loves Me pawn ... Keep Reading -
Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
You started surveying in New York amongst poor Blacks who brought their blues, jazz, and spirituals ... Keep Reading -
GOING TO THE OWLS
It starts with a girl— like you and me she walked these streets once. Right here, ... Keep Reading -
Grafted
Before the sun rises, a farmer must tell his son he is adopted. Whilst they attempt ... Keep Reading -
Rawhead and Bloody Bones
“A monster that lives in a cave up the road,” Evans said. “He looks in the ... Keep Reading -
A Dream
Maybe then she could stand on her tippy-toes and pull down the cables with both hands, ... Keep Reading -
The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment
At first blush, a chapel might seem like an odd venue for a scene like this. ... Keep Reading -
Situation
…he looks out at a huge garden, nine thirty in the morning, caffe latte in hand. ... Keep Reading -
Mom Mazin’
“Have you lost your virginity yet?” my mom asked in her usual impassioned tone as she ... Keep Reading -
Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)
With flashes from the camera phones incessant, the tourists take photo after photo of us, our ... Keep Reading -
Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)
We ride the trains incessantly, and they in reality go nowhere. They circle the 500 square ... Keep Reading -
Rome Suppressed
Translated by Lucy Rand. I start to walk… I walk. I always walk when I need ... Keep Reading -
Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)
Everything is closed. The offices that tower to the sky in the skyscrapers, the schools, churches, ... Keep Reading -
Separation
“He took another deep, soulful breath. The smells were vivid, they carried with them a cascade ... Keep Reading -
Prozac and Presence
Prozac made me cisgender, I say to my therapist inside of her bright blue office-box, barely ... Keep Reading -
Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.
Art across the globe is being influenced more and more by technology; or is it that ... Keep Reading -
Neighbor Cat
The fair is crowded. The fair is noisy. My anxiety level is skyrocketing. We wade with ... Keep Reading -
Coming of Age on a Day of Rage
A story of how a peak moment for me as a parent was marred by an ... Keep Reading -
The story of my first love
I first saw her at a book burning. It was her eyes. That wild orange they ... Keep Reading -
The Road that Leads Back Home
A writer arrives at the definition of home through her journeys around Nigeria. ... Keep Reading -
The Writing’s on the Wall
A journalist returns to the graffiti scene of his youth when a mysterious tag appears on ... Keep Reading -
Still Life
I shouldn’t be telling you any of this, Carl, but I know I can trust you. ... Keep Reading -
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Cinnamon rolls and racists
Je confess! Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you. — John Ashbery ... Keep Reading -
A Lack of Understanding: Storytelling for Robots
So whenever I drive past King’s and see a group of Chinese tourists, I know I ... Keep Reading -
The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction
Science fiction reflects our world, extrapolating our hopes and fears in a distant setting. ... Keep Reading -
Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent
…there is another side to algorithms epitomized in the art works of Manfred Mohr. ... Keep Reading -
Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
It seems fitting that the current Louvre exhibition has surrounded the Renaissance man who saw himself ... Keep Reading -
Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin
Rachel Rossin is a multi-media and installation artist based in New York City ... Keep Reading -
Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie
At the heart of the piece is Ebizie’s experience of a rare neurological condition that was ... Keep Reading -
Do you love me?
Ben just called me through a third party and asked if I was still his girlfriend ... Keep Reading -
Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot
Italy’s race relations between white Italians and its African migrants and black Italians, while not stellar ... Keep Reading -
The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder
Dear Dr. Hanover, my Psychiatrist, I wrote you an email just now that was most certainly ... Keep Reading -
Playing By Ear
Soon Mother starts insisting that a tiny fairy lodges there in her middle ear, alongside the ... Keep Reading -
Unmastered Desires
I didn’t want to be a victim to my desire, to the legacies of white supremacy ... Keep Reading -
Litro Desire Issue: Summer
Cover design Noa Gravesky Table of Contents Summer 2019 The Editor’s Letter Eric Akoto Guest Editor’s ... Keep Reading -
Complicated Blues
The way she smiled at him nearly made me jealous. Even though I didn’t know who ... Keep Reading -
A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu
Name, shame, secrete, wash, wipe clean, wring dry, sanitize. What I can’t expunge, I conceal. I ... Keep Reading -
Four Dope Queens
Through the platform of ANOKO, Obialo has promoted a plethora of African women in New York ... Keep Reading
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The Compass Turns Thrice
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ROSIE GOLDSTEIN WAS A DOG
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The Mothers
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LOVE-YOU-LOTS
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A Tyranny of Wind
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SHAMU CAM
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The Mist
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THE SNAKE
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The Future of Love
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TIME TRAVELING UNCLE
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Getting By, Going By
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THE CASHMERE CLOAK
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Outsider, Insider
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VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, LOVER OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
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TOMORROW I SHALL BE FETTERLESS-BUT WHERE?
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Sickle Claws: Hesperonychus Monstrous
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Momma’s a Butcher
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MAGPIE
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A Very Open Letter from Donald Hump
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Bad Research
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TOLSTOY VISITS HIS STEPMOM
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Twisting the Reels
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Van Gogh Unbound
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MEDUSA GOES TO MORRISONS — BY EMILIA ONG
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Bradley Beach
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Feelin’ like a Criminal: Trauma in ‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple
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KEEP YOUR KNICKERS ON
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GLUE
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Unicorn Cake
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The Frugal Repast
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Hindsight 2020: Notes on the First Year of the Trump Presidency
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THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
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The Supplicant
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Lenin in the Sky
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Very Little like Alan
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The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times
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ON THE RECENT SERIES OF DISAPPEARANCES IN YOUR SMALL TOWN
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Guilty as Hell
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Starchy
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VIEW OF THE POND
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somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator
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A CLEAN SHAVE
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We’ve Only Just Begun, Frankie
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Mr Spire
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RUINS
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Chippendales
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NAME HER FOR HOPE —
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A Legacy of Aunting in the Literary Community
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Catch and release
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ARMBARS–IOWA CITY 1995
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Blocked
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Coronavirus, or the voices to forget
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Neighbors
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AGAIN, YET AGAIN
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The Gun
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Opera at the Bistro
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BAD QI
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=
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Graffiti
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Ace
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Little America
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LIGHTING THE MATCH
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Good Friday, 2020
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Perfect Hair Day
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M and M
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And my life unfolds
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ARIANE
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Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)
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Fry Person
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Things Behind the Sun
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FISH
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Interiors
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Strange Waters
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Can’t You Do Something About This?
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IT WASN’T FOR ME
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When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis
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euphoria
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CUTTING TREES
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Blood
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I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too
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THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES
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Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
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Elevtheria!
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GOING TO THE OWLS
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Grafted
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Rawhead and Bloody Bones
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A Dream
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The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment
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Situation
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Mom Mazin’
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Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)
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Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)
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Rome Suppressed
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Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)
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Separation
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Prozac and Presence
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Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.
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Neighbor Cat
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Coming of Age on a Day of Rage
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The story of my first love
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The Road that Leads Back Home
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The Writing’s on the Wall
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Still Life
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Cinnamon rolls and racists
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A Lack of Understanding: Storytelling for Robots
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The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction
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Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent
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Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin
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Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie
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Do you love me?
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Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot
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The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder
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Playing By Ear
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Unmastered Desires
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Litro Desire Issue: Summer
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Complicated Blues
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A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu
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Four Dope Queens
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