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Literature

Literature

The Prisoner I & II story art
By Nadia Ibrashi

War makes men monsters and monsters men.

The Little Lumberjack story art
By Raymond Luczak

Will, when coupled with grit, goes a long way.

The Gift Chapter 5 art
By Mark Elzey

This installment of Mark Elzey’s autobiography brings the reader through an interminable and harrowing string of childhood corrective surgeries for the sake of “normalization”.

Millicent Gardens story art
By Marie Manilla

Humiliation and desperation/ community and aspiration.

In Polite Rejection story art
By Sam Desmond

In a bitter voice, the undergirding of self worth is dismantled as a possible, unnerving root of feminism is excavated.

Shapeless Skin story art
By Travis Chi Wing Lau

Corporeal expanse, with wrangled nerves and a quieted pulse.

Equals story art
By Casey Haymes

A relationship shakes amid combat against corporate greed.

About the Fires story art
By Andrew Kruse-Ross

Embers of home billow and blow as history burns hard.

Abuses Amended art
By Jessica Edwards

Indignities and exploitation are righted with sharp words and a blunt defense.

America is Weeping art
By Diana Franco

Barbarism is given free rein in a gun-happy nation.

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