Elizabeth Edelglass

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Election Day

By | 2021-06-18T13:00:23-07:00 June 19th, 2021|Categories: Issue 131: 19 June 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

By Elizabeth Edelglass   We stand in line beside our mothers’ stockinged legs, line snaking through the gymnasium, where yesterday we’d also snaked through same gymnasium, mouths agape for the healing cube, sugar our mothers said, but bitter, live virus, our parents had said, to save us from the deadly virus, their voices husky with fear, [...]

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 [...]