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July/Aug 2020 • Vol. XLII No. 4 |

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FICTION “You Must Be This Tall” by Yalitza Ferreras

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It isn’t so much the capture of snow falling and melting all at once in the background, streaking as if on a window, like little souls passing—not so much the […]

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From my window, the men looked like burned-out candle wicks. Their faces smeared into each other under the orange glow of a streetlight. When the door of my apartment started […]

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