Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: Her DNA smells of roses and lavender and her days are spent searching mirrors for keys to the future her author has already denied her.
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Do Not Pet While Working
Kira Córdova — Excerpt: If you have an 18th-century British military kink, I beg you, don’t tell me.
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The Heroines in Hadestown: Objects of Desire versus Agents of Affection
Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.
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January
Bidisha Satpathy — Excerpt: In the mirror, I look like I did in December, with an addition of about seven greying hair.
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On Coffee and Usefulness
Gary Finnegan — Excerpt: While every other aspiring sophisticate was splashing water into brown dust, we knew a better way.