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The Math of Living

By Nishanth Injam, Illustrations by Armando Veve

December 3, 2020

I’ve been working for the Chicago Tribune for about a year when it strikes me that I will go home in six months. The ticket has been booked, and I’m ready. My boss has reviewed the JavaScript code and made his updates for the day. The code is in production.

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Truth’s Empire

By Cutter Wood, Illustrations by Asaf Hanuka

September 8, 2020

This is a story about money and statistics, and it begins with three nuns.

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Everything Splashes and Sinks

By A. Igoni Barrett, Illustrations by Aya Kakeda

Summer 2020

He lost his religion in church. Twelve years old and Nimi knew there was no God. His mother had left them by then, just like his father, though she had left for a better reason.

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& in the Mornings

By Jill Bialosky

Summer 2020

& in the mornings sometimes awoke so cold
—the wind in Iowa City was brutal—
those days of doubt, those days of troubled land,
that I did not want to get out of bed &

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When He Was Small

By Jill Bialosky

Summer 2020

When he was small,
I rented a little studio
in a building on Ninety-Fifth Street so I could have a room
of my own to write. The studio was the size of a bathroom.

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Pride

By Anders Carlson-Wee

Fall 2018

After pulling a score from the dumpster
behind Krogers I stroll through
sliding doors with egg-caked hands.
The greeter greets me as I pass. I scan
the aisles like a surgeon studying the mint

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