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Identity

Identity

Unravel by Jessica Rowshandel, December 2016 issue cover

Unravel

By Jessica Rowshandel

A primal scream into the abyss.

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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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Icarus Also Flew story art

Icarus Also Flew

By Roberto Carlos Garcia

Unmoored, adrift, and searching for salvation in a foreign land.

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Endless Shards of Jazz For a Brutal World still

Endless Shards of Jazz For a Brutal World Stills

By Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Nina Fleck

The defiant face of a spirit heavy.

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Violent Current art

Violent Current and Other Poems

By Mateo Lara

Elemental stress storms, mercurial sensation strikes, and tidal tantrums—the restive and the ready move.

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