In this dream, I fly over / a canyon / filled with faces.
Aerial by Alycia Pirmohamed
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The Day I Became a Mermaid by Italome Ohikhuare
One muggy Miami afternoon, my parents surprised my brother and me with an early Christmas gift: an exorcism.
The Night Bus by Anukta Ghosh
It was the coldest day of that winter. The rumble of the last bus to Hazaribagh town slowly became louder.
Fake Asian by Jennifer Dertouzos
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, the shows that featured Asians focused on showing the stereotypical, obedient, Chinese kid
Migration by Tricia Elliott
As you grasped the bony curve, lifting it from the riverbank / into the shifting, slanting light, it became / the most beautiful thing
Gonaïves by Nadine Seide Gonzalez
Retired yellow school buses are shipped to Haiti and sold into forced labor. You’ll find them lined up at crowded bus stations, crammed with passengers
Connected by Nicola Bourne
They say when someone dies they leave a hole in your heart, but I don’t think that’s true.
Sloan Therapy by Allison Langer
I sit staring at Lina, Sloan’s new therapist. “He’s seven and he’s killing me,” I say.
A Walk by the River by Clarissa Wilson
I come for everyone alike, although they imagine me quite differently. Most think of me as brutal: I am, to their minds, a dark spectre sent to punish them.
Law and Order by Michelle Massanet
Olivia Benson was in the middle of consoling a young woman, repeating the phrase often heard on SVU.