"The Dictator" by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry(Photo credit: Getty Images)The Dictator eyes the men convened in the room: his compatriots, all potential traitors conspiring to destroy the Empire he’d spent a lifetime...
View ArticleFROM THE ARCHIVES: "Labor Day" by Dorothy Spears
by Dorothy Spears(from the Fall/Winter 2016 issue)(photo credit: Thomas Kimp)Labor Day weekend at the Brown family beach house was a time-honored tradition, so it only made sense that George would make...
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"Deportable Alien" (excerpted from THE BODY PAPERS) by Grace Talusan
by Grace TalusanTo celebrate having passed the boards for foreign medical graduates, my father bought a new Chevy Caprice station wagon, turtle green with matching interior. The flatbed in the back...
View Article"Scholar's Mate" by Henry Mills
by Henry MillsOn a concrete patio in Barrio de las flores my cousin Chamba and I square off over the green white chessboard.I haven’t seen him since we were three, and can’t help but gawk as he rubshis...
View Article"NICU" by Lisa Ludden
by Lisa LuddenBABY B.In the quieting room, the machine hum settles into the periphery. The soft riseand fall of your breath marks time. Your body, barely encumbered, stretches under the jaundice lamp....
View Article"Evangelina Concepcion" by Ani Sison Cooney
by Ani Sison Cooney1.You pulled your mother’s clothes inside out and wrote Evangelina Concepcion with a capital ‘E’ and a capital ‘C,’ respectively. In black ink, you wrote behind the wide belt loops,...
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