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Big Mouth
Alice enters a Nebraska fair’s marble-mouth contest and finds the courage to name what has been silently haunting her.
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A Dutch engineer reflects on power, complicity, and reputation in 1950s America during the rise of the interstate system and the corporate-state machine.

A six-year-old boy discovers the word “usurp” and proceeds to overthrow the government of his hometown in a whimsically absurd political fairy tale. “‘Usurp — to take power wrongfully or…

In post-Soviet Siberia, two childhood friends take over a heroin ring, but betrayal, addiction, and vengeance unravel everything they’ve built.

Two poems meditate on grief, memory, and the strange, tender relics we keep—echoes of those we loved or never knew. “what if this / is all that remains / of…

Explore desire, betrayal, class tension, and loneliness with sharp intimacy and unflinching honesty. “I’d say I would trade every quake of base pleasure if I knew it would make me…

A soulful, satirical meditation on Earthbound existence, cosmic delusions, and the urgent grace of staying grounded. “We are here together, on this honeyed Earth, bound to it as long as…

Love reveals itself in the quiet moments—arriving early, lingering late—where presence becomes its purest expression. “But it has always been there, five minutes away, stretching its hand, asking me to…

Chapter 1. About Waking M.E. descriptors; dessicated, drained, deleted, detritus, debt. The fan is on and the window is wide and the night heat turns into morning chills. The sweat…

A piercing reckoning with belief, identity, and complicity, where fiction offers the only sanctuary from the brutal truths of our nonfiction lives. “Fiction is the improbable space… where a person…

A searing philosophical meditation on spiritual possession, colonialism, and the reclaiming of indigenous identity through literary and ecological symbolism. “The native who constitutes the majority class is possessed by a…