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While You Wait story art

While You Wait

By Genelle Chaconas

A frenetic stream of consciousness brings vibrant clarity to an otherwise occluded, banal moment.

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Billy The Grub story art

Billy the Grub

By Jon Berger

The pursuit to fit in, attain acknowledgement, and find self-acceptance moves into a bracing new dimension.

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From the Frequency of Television essay art

From the Frequency of Television

By Melissa Barrow

A rebellious, expressive fury kicks up a sandstorm in the desert.

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Zer0: Emancipation, Original story art by Jessica Deaver detail

Zer0: Emancipation, Chapter 14

By Jessica Deaver

Deceptively spare expression reveals a darkly poetic heart in this unexpected turn of events from Jessica Deaver’s ongoing saga.

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The Gift art

The Gift, Chapter 2

By Mark Elzey

The next installment of Mark Elzey’s courageous, compassionate autobiography.

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Dirty Looks story art

Dirty Looks

By Amie Reilly

Language and self-worth are confronted and reclaimed.

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The Elephant Closest To The Moon story art

The Elephant Closest to the Moon

By Shannon O'Connor

In embrace of soothing delusions, with arms wrapped warmly around all restorative illusions.

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We're Communists story art

We're Communists!

By Eric Nguyen

Politics, romance, and expatriation find an artful symbiosis.

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Alabanza poetry art

Alabanza

By Yareliz Mendez-Zamora

Womanhood—impermeable and fortified—takes anchor into a tempestuous, hostile world.

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Natural Rhythms poetry art

Natural Rhythms

By Linda Laino

Microscopic universes, colossal feelings.

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