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An Implausibility of Wildebeests
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An Implausibility of Wildebeests

Issue 123: 26 November 2020

An Implausibility of Wildebeests

By Editor| 2020-11-24T12:43:53-08:00 November 26th, 2020|Categories: Issue 123: 26 November 2020|Tags: remote learning, Fiction, terms of venery, social distancing, Elizabeth Edelglass, COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning, online learning, physical distancing, hybrid learning|

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 [...]

I Turn 39 During the Pandemic and My Husband Asks Me to Buy a Gun
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I Turn 39 During the Pandemic and My Husband Asks Me to Buy a Gun

Issue 123: 26 November 2020

I Turn 39 During the Pandemic and My Husband Asks Me to Buy a Gun

By Editor| 2020-11-24T15:26:50-08:00 November 26th, 2020|Categories: Issue 123: 26 November 2020|Tags: Poetry, COVID-19 pandemic, Brianna Pike, fear|

By Brianna Pike while we sit in our kitchen, our son asleep upstairs. Earlier, I sat on our back deck, the sunlight beating bold over the lawn as my son streaked across the newly green grass, falling over & over into its softness. It is my birthday & I did not expect this gift of green [...]