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December 5, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

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December 4, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Father, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant    One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

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November 12, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Six Poems, by Traci Brimhall

  Color Theory Before Newton used a prism to break light into color, Aristotle said everything was white and black.…

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November 11, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Follies, Ruins, Ducks, by Michael Martone

  Capitol Park: Tuscaloosa It was on a bluff, a bluff. Alabama’s state capitol building for twenty years. There was…

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October 31, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Like a Sermon in the Mud, by D. Harlan Wilson

  I had only planted the clockseeds yesterday. Not only that, the air was dry as an empty lung. And…

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October 30, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Carrion Bull, by Jason Schwartz

  The crying room—a fancy of certain Northern homes, earlier in the century—is simply a chamber off the parlor, to…

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October 29, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

Censored Haiku and Translations of Matsuo Bashō, by Rick Moody

  Censored Haiku this one talks about [    ] and [    ] and the dark [     …

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October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

1/5040, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   Note from the author: This story comprises seven parts…

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October 24, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Z, The Turning, by Steve Tomasula

  We imagine the lives of the silent. It’s impossible not to. I was at the zoo, at that time…

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October 22, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

Three Poems, by Alejandro Albarrán Polanco

Translated by Rachel Galvin   You say that insisting on this is a mistake. You always say it. We understand…

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