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March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 John Zedolik

He looks my way as we sit in the chain salon awaiting our haircuts, and I wonder if “my way” is at me, since he repeats the twists of neck—but my eyes cannot certify since I keep them down on my phone and remember a friend of adolescence who would Read more

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Does She Still Like Billie Holiday?

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 Doug Hoekstra

Sometimes when I lay awake on a hot summer night listening to the chorus of crickets outside my bedroom window in the hazy gauze of the southern town I landed in somehow like an arrow in the garden or a bow upon a gift, hidden, waiting I remember When the Read more

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Listening

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 Doug Hoekstra

“Eighty years old and still looking good,” She says to me every time I come to volunteer. I smile. She smiles back. Five minutes pass. “Eighty years old and still looking good,” She says.  Again. I smirk.  Eyes twinkle Lightly.  A chuckle. Ten minutes pass. I circle around the room, Read more

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solid

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 Miguel Rodriguez Otero

first time in a tux, a one-day hire, i’m sure any ass can spot the dupe a mile away. but i am not a wallflower, so i figure i’m-a go get some booze and tap into the flow and talk and chuckle like i’m cool, or stupid, it don’t matter, Read more

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Road Rage in a Funeral Procession

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025 Todd Matson

You can’t ask me to repeat any of it. If it’s written somewhere on a bathroom wall, it was shouted at the top of someone’s lungs. Obscenities in juxtaposition bordering on blasphemous spewed through windows rolled down, birds flying from clinched fists, horns honking, vehicles jerking and weaving between lanes Read more

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Betty

May 29, 2025July 13, 2025 Miguel Rodriguez Otero

For years I took that route back home after work, my eyes struggling to stay open. I’d drive past the fork in the road, then there’s the inevitable traffic light, so I’d just wait. Wait and look around. This is how I noticed her across the street, in the clothing Read more

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loose

February 17, 2025July 13, 2025 Miguel Rodriguez Otero

so i hear you want to talk about sensitive men and spiritual growth and shit, and it immediately hits me we’re playing different leagues. it’s easy to put on that show: you’re cute, elegant, and have this sophisticated something that makes people around you feel so lucky to have found Read more

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Vibrate All

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023 Doug Hoekstra

i like the sound of no phone no retro ring tone no buzzing in my pants vibrate all vibrate who vibrate you the space between us right now the slipstream meditating words ideas feelings xoxoxo I like the sound of deeper meaning no space between us Photo by Jonathan Borba Read more

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