Foreign-ness
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/DayanForeign.mp3″] 1. “I’m not obsessed,” Violette says, “just really passionate about you trimming your side of the hedge.” In […]
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Punch Line
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BalmaPunch.mp3″] One night I was the first dancer in the bar. My shift hadn’t started. I had time to
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Self-Portrait By Someone Else
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/KampaElse.mp3″] The afternoon we traced our 2nd grade bodies with poster paint, legs V-shaped on paper like the outlines
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“Honesty” by Maya Jewell Zeller
Maya Jewell Zeller HONESTY It’s true I drove an SUV once through Fresno with a backseat full of college boys
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“Objective Correlative” by Bryan Walpert
Bryan Walpert OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE Start with a bird. A petrel. No, a shearwater. Whatever. You start with a shearwater, then
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“The Don’ts” by Jeff Vande Zande
Jeff Vande Zande THE DON’TS (An Incomplete List) Don’t let your cell phone rest against your ear or any other