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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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St. James Infirmary
… Infirmary the absent have left the window open: the last soldier, stricken, his moustache gently covered over, has left … of wool—the woolly dead— and beards of fishes, as the soldiers twirl their ice-crystal ragamuffin moustaches, …
Prayer Against the Furies
… clock Runs but one day and stops and never strikes, They come to find him waiting, shoulders still bent, Worn head … them this prayer: Give them peace. But for the children who come back once more To find him, strange, incredible, … pines on the ridge, The ragged fence that lattices the sky, Come outlined sharply as the marble edge After the …
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Mandela’s Prosecutor
… for fighting against the system of apartheid. David is uncomfortable, I can tell. Throughout the conversations about … a car accident. Yet there were people like them who, though also steeped in their own circumstances, did break away and … on you,’ ” the interrogator tells me. “ ‘You’re going to die. And the person that’s going to hang you is one of your …
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Filming the End of the World in Metamora, Indiana
… he was a teacher he knew a couple students were going to die just by looking them in the eye. “And two weeks later …” … Paul backed out of the room. In my head, I pictured Paul coming back in a black robe. I snapped pictures as if the … freelancing, I wait tables when cash is tight. I also build websites, create videos, design magazines and layouts—any …
Beau Law and Mississippi High-Rollers
… gambling, duels, and pursuit of fair women, New Orleans embodied many of the attributes of its founder. It was as if … and the royal revenue to 300 millions. France will become the retreat of the happy and the refuge of … fencer Beau Law mortally wounded his opponent. He was also out of favor with the French because he had eloped with …
Early Deaths
… little room at the end of the hall, voicing snatches of welcome to his hands and heels, as he waited solitary for Mrs. … makeshift bedroom there was a showing of light with some false warmth in it.”.. .the earliest pipe of half-awakened … born. Her ballpoint, flying over Drucilla’s blue paper, steadied by Mobjack Bay Houses: “Patty, the trip is really out …
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