Communion
Three days a week in a parking garage: the valet, the seven-dollar-a-day-limit. All you want is to please Charlie, the man behind the plexi-glass, asking for cash-only, please. Your offering: the crisp cash you give him, counted on
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Running
He was 18 years old. At college for the first time. He was there to start a new life. Or maybe he was running from his old one. But he
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The Midwestern Way
by Eric Stoff I leaned in for a kiss but instead I caught the whisper that’s still ringing in my head. It says, “You’ve done enough damage for the both of us.” But I leaned in
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What’s in a Name?
By Heather D. Moline My answer poet playwright potter puppeteer of the stage is power The one thing all names contain in a society where how much he who will she why not me and what you’ll be is everything Where values for
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Middle-Age Daydream
by Tyler Chernesky I can’t say I’ve ever thought of myself as manly. Not that I’ve doubted my manhood – I mean, I see it every time I step out of
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