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The Blue and White Magazine
Mother's Birthday
By Renny Gong It’s my mother’s birthday. I call her to say, I’m gonna dress like a slut tonight. We switch to FaceTime so I can show her...
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Avery Reed
Teeth and Zoology: A Fable
By Avery Reed Auburn, New York, 2022 It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re knitting again. The oxygen machine whirs and you swat the air as a...
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Henry Astor
The Pit
By Henry Astor “The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.” – Roger Williams. Or so read the etching on the facade...
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Lynnette Widder
23/17/42
By Lynnette Widder 23. He is at a table beneath the fruit trees: the wind lifts, and pink petals sheet towards the crushed stone ground....
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Sadie Wade-Stein
The Hunt
By Sadie Wade-Stein Trigger warning: the following contains references to domestic violence and assault. Tom is smoking L&Ms with his...
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Miriam Lewis Mason
Towards One Place, From Another
By Miriam Lewis Mason Doors open. Crowd flows into the open space, just hydrodynamics. Bodies forced together in a poorly made puzzle,...
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The Blue and White Magazine
The Shortcut
Anonymous Love Letter III Dear Mom, I went to the little cafe yesterday with Anna to do some work. It was rainy and cold and the...
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Margaret Connor
The T Train
By Margaret Connor Joe Orton makes it sound so easy, and Laud Humphreys makes it sound normal, but in the time the man’s been standing in...
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Margaret Connor
Couch Surfing
By Margaret Connor Buying a new couch was easy—minivan, bribe, lookout, you get the idea. The trouble came when I wanted to get rid of...
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Miska Lewis
Excerpt from “Manifestations”
By Miska Lewis Sometimes home reminded me of a classroom. It wasn’t that I got sleepy the moment I entered, or that there were rows and...
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Lara Smith
Beginner Astronomy
By Lara Smith The first time I see a sky full of stars (and I mean real stars) I am around eight years old and visiting my grandparents...
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Owen Park
My Brother’s Green Grass
My older brother’s son had been missing six years when he decided to move to Los Angeles in a U-Haul with its roll-up door tied down to...
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Owen Park
What I Just Found Out
This morning, I was finishing the uptown leg of the bike loop around Central Park, delivered by that winding final curve. All downhill...
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Daniel Reiser
I’ll Be Around
By Daniel Reiser When I met Ayesha outside the Chinese restaurant I had to lean against a tree to stay still. It had been about a month...
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Sophie Paquette
Nobody
By Sophie Paquette. I only know Lou in the way we’ve all always known her. A breath against the backs of our necks, the swish of a skirt...
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Judy Xie
Out of Focus Calendar
I began the day by trying to unvisit it or yesterday or the weeks that came before it.
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