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Summer Reading

A family with two parents and five children hold hands around a table. A bowl is in front of each person and the parents’ clasped hands are large in the foreground.
Fiction / July/August 2021

Little Sanctuary

June 25, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Randy Boyagoda

The bus sped past abandoned houses, burned-out cars, skinny cows, masked and bandaged people running to the road at the sight of a vehicle, any vehicle, and others running away

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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 / July/August 2019

What I Learned From a Summer of Not Catching a Single Fish

June 24, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Marni Jackson

Don’t use deli meat as bait, for starters

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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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Summer Verses

June 17, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

Introducing the Poetry Editor’s Note, which provides context to poems published in the magazine

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Illustration by Hanna Wieslander
July/August 2008

Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging

July 12, 2008June 1, 2021 - by Guy Gavriel Kay

There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …

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