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… when a friend texts: “I lost two of my best friends. They died just in front of my eyes.” And: “Now I really feel how … the body. They want to kill humanity and hope.” I work in communication, I work in doing, but there’s nothing I can … The children giggle. The evening air is full of sound and also still. A soccer game, a yell, a heavy door slams. The …

… dust, snow, rain. No one can really say how many people die in Afghanistan each year—or how many live. The last … The water is thought to absolve the sins of the dead. Sayil points to his house, clinging to the steep mountain. “We are … leg is whose, which arm is whose until the medical examiner comes. One time I had a head and I just didn’t know which …

… It’s what Monsanto brags about, this reduction of chemicals with Bt cotton. In 2002, the Indian government approved … taking a chai break in the shade of a tree, their bodies suspended on a single charpoy cot. The air is hot and … of natural bacteria. Without pesticides, the soil is more complex and can retain water for longer. It is richer, …

… far. “They will roll you,” the ranch matriarch warns. Next comes a swift procession of people. One leans in to give a … of all that dung, give the infants to the higher mammals with the softest fur.…   3. Purple petals struggle for … sprout. Durum wheat, soybeans, flaxseed, canola, and peas die in dirt.  “It ain’t gonna grow in the bins,” one farmer …

… a steel plate on the street equaled peace or nostalgia? The company that installed it, Halcyon Construction, is based in … practically inseparable. Then one day Ceyx sailed off and died in a shipwreck, and in her grief Alcyone tried to drown … ghosts are holes with “intentions, a sensibility, morals … an absent being amidst present beings.” Like the gaps …