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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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Sunday Afternoon
… lengthens, and you disappear. Because your secrets have become mine without you, I know you’re still asking for … The few remaining are so well hidden, should they become metaphors for happiness, they’d be crippled by their …
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The Flight of Syrian Refugees
… protesters. Since 2011, an estimated 200,000 Syrians have died from the conflict within their borders, and close to … map, based on figures provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), focuses on refugees being … UN in the countries that border Syria. No doubt these totals will have risen since this printing, as the situation …
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The Realm of Possibility
… then to release it incrementally, then to grip it again, comfortably but firmly, as he backed up between a snowdrift … he said to himself. He understood this thought to be a falsehood but he chose not to correct it. He liked the way it … studying his reflection in the mirror, just as he had studied hers on the drive out. He was furious with her, all but …
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Not to Be Entered Into Lightly
… flamboyishness that it would inspire gossip for years to come. Though hesitant at first, I supported her dream. … accent it was, but it sounded like that. “Shawnon and the ladies are a-already hee-yah, so you must a-remain upstairs … first. (We are holding hands, but with her thumb, Shannon points back at herself and mouths, “The other fella?”) The …
Power in Novels
… By Radclyffe Hall. Garden City: Double-day, Page, and Company. $2.50. From Man to Man. By Olive Schreiner. New … escape from everyday cruelties, only to discover before he dies that a gentle God can be found only in gentleness, in … childlike delight in children and holidays and festivals pervade the book. I am inclined to suspect that much of …
Memory
… in which I’d addressed him. He said, “You’re not going to die. I’m an American. You are free.” This made no sense to … Because by now I had my head up and the light was becoming manageable. I saw hundreds of Japanese men in United … and we spent hours poring over pictures of elaborate meals and presentations. That night she came she said it was …
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