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Catawba, Virginia by Allie Hoback

March 14, 2018 by pwatem

Catawba, Virginia         nearest hospital: 20 miles   My mother clings to the passenger side door of my father’s baby blue pick-up– to be traded for a minivan two years

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What happened to the Chinaberry Trees by Clarissa Kendall

February 16, 2018March 14, 2018 by pwatem

we used to lay beneath each Sunday, hungry, hands like mouths on our answers, like tarnish on silver: didn’t we know   the roots would remain—rely on the shade— permanence

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SkinWalker by Max Torti

January 17, 2018January 18, 2018 by pwatem

in the back of my Mazda Minivan, steaming like, Hot Worms wriggling up, drowning like, Indiana Jones in some pit, slowly gurgling out the last slips of air.   my

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Happy Birthday by Marlon Mckay

October 20, 2017 by pwatem

“Are you sure you want to do this child? Once we start there is no turning back, you’ll be bound forever.” An elderly woman asked the young boy. The two

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God’s Grand Bravado by Kenny Burchett

March 2, 2017 by pwatem

  I am God’s grand bravado, temporal.   Whose hairline recedes like trees forested on a fleeting ball of dirt, and water. Several teeth decayed have been extracted. Soft breasts

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