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An Implausibility of Wildebeests

By | 2020-11-24T12:43:53-08:00 November 26th, 2020|Categories: Issue 123: 26 November 2020|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

By Elizabeth Edelglass   “A pride of lions. A pod of whales. A wisdom of wombats.” Henry is rattling off something he learned from the zoo—not the zoo zoo, the online zoo, somewhere, Seattle? Omaha?—Isabel forgot which one today. If it’s Tuesday, there are pandas; if it’s Thursday, dolphins. Pandas are bears, Henry likes to remind [...]

Hope and Furies

By | 2019-10-16T13:53:50-07:00 October 17th, 2019|Categories: Issue 96: 17 October 2019|Tags: , , |

By Shana Ross   When vengeance descends in a collective noun with feathers: do we expect a murmuration or a murder?   Shana Ross is a writer, mother, muse, sometime wallflower, middle-aged ambivert with a BA and MBA from Yale. Since resuming her writing career in 2018, she has accumulated over 20 publication credits. She is [...]