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Only So Many

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Growing up outside of Boston my friend Bomb, his real name was Thomas, had a saying. “You’re only allowed so many baskets in a lifetime.” I wasn’t sure if he…

Viper // Víbora

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Translated from Spanish by Allison A. deFreese   Code name: Margueritte   With short strokes, the man moves his arms to float in the brown water. The current can carry…

Timeshares

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When Nora’s children were children, she never permitted them to go to the zoo. She hated seeing animals in small spaces, away from their people, even if it was for…

Fists & Fingernails

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Your sanity or your apartment—it’s impossible to determine which one you lost first. There was a time, say four years ago, when you definitely still had both. You think of…

Heavy Metal

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Tall on the Scriptures and short on trust, folks in these parts agree about the primordial and problematic difference of outsiders. Citing Genesis 11: 6, Bible readers fear Nothing they…

Boys’ Night

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August 14—one year since the ban. To “celebrate” we all brought our finest bootleg equalizers, good and loaded. T-bone flaunted his homemade barrel and switch, and Barko fashioned a tracker…

Entitled

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As kids we played football in the school parking lot, tearing our jeans, and bloodying our elbows on the uneven asphalt, pretending to be Black NFL players. I was my…