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Facing 2003
by Jeremy Warneke In a black notebook, hardcover and college-ruled, Adam Wobegon, an admirer of Yusef Komunyakaa, writes the following in black permanent ink: My white hand fades, deep inside the...
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the frequency hop
by Randy Brown During World War II, Hollywood bombshell Hedy Lamarr invented a method of encrypting communications between a submarine and a torpedo on its way to target. Two radios could hop around...
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Chow Hall Line
by Joseph Pete The colonel, With his close-cropped hair, shaved chin, clear skin, regal bearing and college degree, Showed up that Thanksgiving evening to serve slices of turkey in the DFAC. “Dark or...
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Inshallah Mañana
Señor Higareda taught us “Ojalá” in seventh-grade Español, along with our hasta luegos and our hasta mañanas, some twenty-one years before the Twin Towers fell, and still more before the day that...
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Green
By Brian Braden This is the edge of the world, where all light ends, she thought. There are many shades of darkness, and now she faced the deepest, blackest shade of all. Not a single flicker of light...
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Some Kind of Storm
by Travis Klempan John Mackenzie’s eyes snapped open. He stared into the fuzzy purpling sky and decided not to move until he figured out what the hell had happened. Met four hippies at Dallas-Fort...
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No Rolling, Shrink
by Ryan Stovall I like you. You seem friendly enough, and I’ve tried my damnedest to relate to you the truth. For example, it’s true I came to you. But I came for pharmacy and lethe, not because I...
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Maneuvering
by Colin Sargent History remembers The 1946 diplomatic mission President Truman Took to South America aboard the USS Missouri, Steaming out of Washington at midnight Into the stars But might easily...
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October’s Daughter
by Brian Kerg From the Entry Control Point, I watched the sunset, a gush of evening’s blood over the horizon. The flash of the sun on the Afghan mountain, miles distant, blazed like the gold of my...
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Terminal Leave
Terminal Leave is the first book by the Atlanta poet, F.S. Blake. This collection, published by Finishing Line Press, is the culmination of what started “as a bet with my sister” and ended up a...
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