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The Man in White Underwear Thinks I’m Crazy by Cynthia Gralla

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Whenever I imagine my father, he’s almost naked. For three years after my parents divorced, I spent every […]

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The Muay Thai Cadence by Devin Donovan

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My eyes are pointed at the mat because a large man has his hands cupped behind my head. […]

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Whither the Cinnabar Moth, and other Poolside Meditations by Nigel Jarrett

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I don’t fall so much these days. That’s partly because I’m aware of the likelihood of falling, so […]

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At My Grandparents House by Dinos Gregoriou

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It was hot that day and the dirt was so dry it crunched under the soles of my […]

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Water Underground by John Carr Walker

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I found a snapshot of my father taken before I was born, a black-and-white print on foxed paper […]

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A Woman Who Smelled of Earth and Rain by Susheela Menon

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I didn’t think I would miss Grandmother at all. She had grown distant with time, developing an impenetrable […]

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Rudolf by Holly Aszkenasy

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You could barely move, in fin-de-siècle Mitteleuropa, without encountering something mystical, transcendental, or at least a bit occultish. […]

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I don’t want to go to the Taj Mahal by Charlie Hill

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When I was twenty-four, my girlfriend of three years announced she was leaving me to go travelling. She’d […]

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Tangerine by Sally Gander

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I have not always had this memory. It has been acquired, like the pains I feel in my […]

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Rewatching Grey’s Anatomy by Tania Hershman

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Everyone has someone. That’s what jumps out at you as you watch the first six seasons of Grey’s […]

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