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Conrad Loomis & the Clothes Ray
by Amiri Baraka
Loomis was an old friend of mine. I kept in touch with him more or less regularly, but every few months he would vanish, so to speak. [More]
Song for Night
by Chris Abani
Death is always the expectation here and when my throat was cut it was no different. Nobody explained it at first. Nobody had time; nobody cared; after three years of a civil war nothing is strange anymore; choose the reason that best satisfies you. [More]
Transparency
by Frances Hwang
Henry Liu lost his voice halfway through the trip, coughing so violently that he thought he pulled a muscle on his left side. Whenever he felt pain, he put his hand across his chest to reassure himself that his heart was still beating. [More]
The Perfect Man
by Naeem Murr
Gerard Travers lifted the little dark boy off the train and onto the platform at Victoria. It had been a hard journey from India for the child, who had cried constantly for his mother and had wet himself every night. [More]
The Day the Battle Ended at Little Bighorn
by Joseph M. Marshall III
In formation, they charged across a broad and open floodplain just west of the river called the Little Bighorn. A line of men on horses headed directly for the southern end of the encampment of nearly a thousand lodges and eight thousand people. [More]
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