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You’ll Kiss Her Softly
You know it’s not cool for a man to talk about something that pussified. But you can’t help it. The four-letter word and you. She is older, actually. She’s… More
My Own Private Normandy
I saw a cross that was different from any of the others. It did not give a city, or a name, or a date; it said only, “Here rests… More
Two New NSA Reform Proposals Announced
After a long quiet period on Capitol Hill, two new NSA reform proposals are being introduced this week. More
Stranger in My Own Country
No, it was not natural that my family was so small, for Leon and Ewa should have had parents who might still have been alive when I was born.… More
The Noon Signal
These are the available facts regarding the Clementinum’s Astronomical Tower: it is the pale yellow of butter pecan ice cream; the eight-sided cupola at its apex boasts a wrap-around… More
Four Poems by Tarfia Faizullah
Begin with the fuchsia dress / I wore the night the scent / of storm threaded the brief / wind gusting away its hem // from my thighs—begin /… More
View on an Accident
Yesterday on that same corner, a young man on a motorcycle was hit by a car. I heard it happen: the familiar shriek of tire on asphalt, the crunch… More
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