“To Women Named Emily” by C. Joseph Jordan
C. Joseph Jordan TO WOMEN NAMED EMILY What kind of men am I? This question floats through my mind now […]
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“Cheap Talk” by Karla Huston
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“On the Anniversary of Her First Marriage” by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
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“The Prisoners Have Gone Back to Their Cells” by Philip Levine
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Fast Gas
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/LauxGas.mp3″] for Richard Before the days of self service, when you never had to pump your own gas, I
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An Act of Procreation
what beatings we have taken— gave what we have endures: poverty, hunger, sickness, spinal taps, seizures, stripped of privacy, independence,