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Pleasantries
‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Tomorrow I’ll Get Past It
‘My fifty-two-year-old heart beat like a twenty-year-old. Sun Qiang’s camera was only ever directed at Mianyang and various celebrities, but now it was pointed at her and me.’
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December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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History and Other Poems — House House Magazine
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December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49157/...
Coming to This
We have discarded dreams, preferring the heavy industry of each other, and we have welcomed grief and called ruin the impossible habit to break.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Love Language
Fiction
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December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Connecting the Dots
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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December 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go ro...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Omphalos, by Ae Hee Lee | wildnesswildness
Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Hybrid: “Dear bear, poems” by Ae Hee Lee — Honey Literary
The Hive proudly presents a sequence of “Dear bear, poems” by the amazing Ae Hee Lee.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I Am Chito
The first time I ever heard about coyotes Was in a book called (in Japanese) Seton’s Animals for Boys and Girls There I encountered Lobo the Wolf King, bighorn sheep, a family of wild boars, cottontai...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
—And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday, And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday— When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed, Or me sitting on the...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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For Grace, After A Party by Frank O Hara - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: You do not always know what I am feeling. / Last night in the warm spring air while I was
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December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Ling Ma: "Winner"
A short story by Ling Ma: "I hadn't returned the keys because the landlord hadn’t returned my security deposit."
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December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I couldn’t come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing. Love on the water, love und...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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HUMAN_FALLBACK | Laura Preston
As I plunged into the squall of messages, the landmarks of my own world receded. I was no longer a person but a great, universal ear receiving the worries and doubts of those in search of housing—that...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Issue Fifty-Three: Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong
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November 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Women Without Children — House House Magazine
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November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Opinion | ‘I’m Literally So Hungry, It’s All I Can Think Of’
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November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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how it feels to host thanksgiving
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Kafka Cooks Dinner
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November 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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An Essay on Loss
The hour after the loss delivered me iridescence: a double-crested cormorant probing the glass lake, a dialect architecting the essence of what I lacked. So I accused the lake, the New Zealand tea tre...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Carjacking Party
I was getting ready for bed when my roommate knocked vengefully on my door. My pants were legless on the floor. I had a glass of water and an audio porn on my phone. Vin asked through the door if I wo...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Reverting to a Wild State
A breakup, in reverse.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Reunified German Images
‘In his early work planes of repressive material intersect: constellations of objects that contradict social physics, while a sci-fi robotic space asserts its primacy.’
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM