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The Prison-house of Language
Language always felt, to me, like an invasion.
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APEX MAGAZINE
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
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Musings from Maryland
Managing Editor Lesley Conner welcomes you to issue 118!
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Words for Thought #33
AC Wise reviews stories about love, romance, and other breeds of relationships.
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Interview with Cover Artist Julia Griffin
Russell Dickerson interviews February cover artist, Julia Griffin.
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Cold Iron Comfort
Apá always said I could come home. He never had to say the words if it doesn’t work out, but I heard them clear enough the day I left to live amongst the Fair Folk.
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The Anatomy of a Transracial Child
My wife and I were on the road for a long drive when she put on an episode of NPR’s Code Switch discussing the experience of transracial adoptees.
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Hole in the World (Excerpt)
\At least they’re not talking much, Lucinda Hawkins thought as she eased the airport shuttle bus through the blizzard.
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Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
The dusty, bumpy road linking the magnetic hyper-expressway to Ijebu-Ode was nothing like the smooth, organised, and illuminated tunnels from which it branched out.
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Reviews of stories about complicated family relationships.
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