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“This year so far, I had said, Hello, Goodbye, Do you have change for twenty dollars, Where is the bathroom, and I love you. I had meant every word.”
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Asha Futterman, whose poem “Study of Children” appears in our new Fall issue, on the unsettling harmony of Faith Ringgold’s 1998 fairy tale.
"My work made sense when I was drawing schematics and performing calculations, but understanding people and talking to them was admittedly not a skill I possessed.”
Our submissions-reading process.
“if she’s playing she’s playing // living or some- / thing in between.”
“I’d almost forgotten why we were heading to Himeji Castle in the first place.”
“The kids saw the scars on his fingers, that big slice on his pinkie, proof of his diligent practice morning, midday, afternoon, and night.”