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Hope's Great Labor art

Hope's Great Labor

By Alex Brueggeman

All of humanity dropped the ball on morality. But who will care enough to pick it back up?

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Valero BioPark

Zer0: Emancipation, Chapter 16

By Jessica Deaver

Jessica Deaver’s speculative epic delves into a sinking land.

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Flag Factory art

Flag Factory

By Ron Burch

A Kafkaesque nightmare of irrational duties and absurd bureaucracies.

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Traveling Freely art

Traveling Freely

By Roberto Carlos Garcia

A business trip invites observations of countless injustices and ruminations on systemic oppressions. 

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Darkness In The Margins poetry art

Darkness in The Margins

By Lola Rainey

Transcended, impermeable.

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Cerebral Tides, Celestial Rides art

Cerebral Tides, Celestial Rides

By Law Alsobrook

The spirit roams across time and space, occasionally alighting on firm ground.

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The Many Faces of Silence art

The Many Faces of Silence

By Laura Cesarco Eglin

Self-preservation is a gift reluctantly given, a blessing hard won.

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James Gang art

James Gang

By JB McGeever

Dominance testing, tribal unions, and bruised egos make for a sound street education.

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Filigree cosmic 2016 by Mauricio Paz Viola, detail

Spit in Your Hand

By Addie Citchens

Intergenerational reflection allows for a gracious emancipation.

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Saudade art

Saudade

By Adam Que

Melancholy abounds for a street that no longer exists, a neighborhood whose character has been too changed.

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