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When I Am Asked to Be More Like the Good Women of Sparta in the Movie ‘300’

By | 2020-09-29T14:00:49-07:00 October 1st, 2020|Categories: Issue 119: 01 October 2020|Tags: , , , |

By Abby E. Murray   The colonel sends a letter to the families of Tiger Battalion at the onset of global pandemic. I am a Tiger spouse now, which means I am dignified, according to the colonel. The tigers in the zoo closest to us have paced so long in their habitat they communicate in sunken [...]

On Sending Her Back

By | 2020-01-06T08:01:11-08:00 January 9th, 2020|Categories: Issue 101: 09 January 2020|Tags: , , |

By Abby E. Murray for Ilhan Omar   The man with no back to return to— which is to say there is no path to safety from the cliff where he clings, no escape to remind him the way back is his— has wished to banish, send back, cast out a woman whose back is all [...]

Questions for My Shooter

By | 2019-08-07T16:13:51-07:00 August 8th, 2019|Categories: Issue 92: 08 August 2019|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Abby E. Murray   Which of my relatives will point out how I was raised humanely, in a house with a yard where I could pick blueberries I grew myself or sit on a blanket in the grass when it was warm? And who will tell them that’s good because it was, the humane life, [...]

Breakfast with Santa

By | 2018-01-10T17:56:26-08:00 January 11th, 2018|Categories: Issue 53: 11 Jan 2018|Tags: , |

By Abby E. Murray Santa arrives at the chemical bay on Joint Base Lewis McChord in a Stryker, 8AM sharp on Saturday, Colonel’s orders, free of charge. Santa has an Alabama twang. Santa says he’d like to make a quick announcement, his voice ringing in rented speakers that broadcast Christmas carols as well as the pale [...]