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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

The Year in Two Kinds of Failure

There is the failure to do what’s expected of me, and the failure to do what I expect of myself.

The Year in Being Orphaned

It's strange to have moments of gratitude for something that’s slowly ruining a person you love.

The Year in Absent Endings

The things we hope for in life—stability, moments of unexpected joy and recognition, the creation of a kind of legacy—are the same things many of us look for in what we read, and in what we write.

The Year in Islamophobia

Islamic terrorism hasn’t occurred in a vacuum. If people wanted to hear from Muslims, they could have asked us a long time ago.

The Year in Fuckable Power

Desire humiliates you; channel it upwards.

The Year in Scarlet and Grey

The homogeneity in a week’s worth of Midwestern skies is rivalled only in the unspooling of a single day.