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Arts & Culture / Fiction / July/August 2019

The Space Between Trees

June 28, 2019December 16, 2020 - by Benjamin Hertwig

In this short story, a former female soldier leaves one macho world for another

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Arts & Culture / Fiction / July/August 2019

Super Dads

June 19, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

A short story about what happens when three men visit a theme park where nearly everyone is stoned

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
April 2019 / Fiction

Childhood

March 26, 2019March 27, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

Mark didn’t know what to make of his son—he didn’t seem like an “ordinary” kid

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Illustration of ships and darkness.
Fiction / March 2019

Finissage

February 18, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Shary Boyle

A short story about the end of the world

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Sausage shaped diagram meant to illustrate discovery of truth
December 2018 / Fiction

Plastic Parts to Help with Life

December 23, 2018August 30, 2021 - by M.A.C. Farrant

A Lego Farm is an environmentally friendly and vegetarian farm where there are no slaughterhouses, no feeding operations, no toxic lagoons, and no impoverished migrant workers

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child's room containing bunk bed and dozens of toys
Books / Fiction / October 2018

The Arithmetic of Common Ground

October 12, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Scott Randall

A short story about the remarkable unlikelihood that anyone finds a mate

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Fiction / October 2018

Split Tooth

September 18, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Tanya Tagaq

We pile our hair as high as it will go, even though the wind destroys our hairdos to the point that every time we come in from outside, the girls’ bathroom is a haze of Final Net

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Person whose top of head is a flower
Fiction / July/August 2018

Upholstery

July 24, 2018September 14, 2021 - by Mireille Silcoff

Mrs. Naimer would swim the whole way across the lake and back, a feat everyone on the beach ignored on purpose

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A women sticking her face in a flower
Fiction / July/August 2018

The Second Coming of the Plants

July 20, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Zsuzsi Gartner

Hear the piercing chorus of the cacti, the beat boxing of the giant redwoods. This is our lullaby for you, sprouts, and only you

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Statue with a series of flowers sticking out of it
Fiction

Tax Niʔ Pik̓ak (A Long Time Ago)

June 21, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓

Ka titi had been alive longer than most of the people on the reserve. She remembered when David Thompson arrived in Ktunaxa ʔamak̓is

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