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Tara Isabel Zambrano
Our Sons Wrote, Glorious Days Are About To ComeCW: Conflict Zone Violence After guerilla training in the mountains, our sons came back with machine guns and grenades, their cheeks soft-grizzled, their gaze scorched like Siachen glacier in sunlight, … Read the rest
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Nick Sabolik
Before We Stopped Speaking; EnoughBefore We Stopped Speaking I once watched my friend fall from a height of thirty stories and live. Well, not live, but you know what I mean. At first I … Read the rest
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Alison Braid
CarpetThe widower paid for the abortion, but he wouldn’t come with her. Olive called Susannah from the clinic after it was all over. Olive spoke into the phone and then … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín: A Special Feature
“When West Branch invited me to be a guest editor, I told Josh I wanted the story if it was still free. This time, to my absolute delight, it was.”
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Patrick Thomas Henry
Seven Flock the Transom: From the Wire ReportsOn the morning that Chet Alpine publishes his list “Six Surprising Birds That Will Fuck You Up,” the editors of TrendWire email us about an impending financial crisis. “As you … Read the rest
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Jehanne Dubrow
You Must StumbleThe memorials are made of concrete and covered in brass. Each one is the size and shape of a small cobblestone, measuring 96 by 96 millimeters. They’re called stolpersteine in … Read the rest
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Naomi Kanakia
The Anti-Fascist“These days, all stories need to be adventure stories.”
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Sarah Heying
Electric Rapture at the House of Tin GodsSarah Heying is currently working on a PhD in Oxford, MS. She received her MFA from McNeese State University, and her short stories have previously appeared in The Greensboro Review, Broken Pencil, Kestrel, and elsewhere.
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Carolyn Zaikowski
The WaterCarolyn Zaikowski is the author of the novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013.) Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared widely, in such publications as Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, DIAGRAM, Huffington Post, and Everyday…
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Andrés Reconco
La CreelMy mother was obsessed with soap operas and pan dulce. One day, after my photo shoot, I went to a panadería she likes. It’s a Cuban place with little sweet … Read the rest
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