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"Rani gave birth to the daughter that would not be her daughter on a Friday morning. She came on the Goddess’s favorite day, for that was how such fates became intertwined—the Goddess gave no subtle signs."
—Abhijith Ravinutala, "Until She Says So"
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"Jack thinks he may have seen him before. Maybe at Julius’s? But was he a customer or a cop? So many nights, so many drinks, so many raids—everything gets blurry."
—@jaimegill, "Obedience"
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"Seeing Dave, Laura’s high school sweetheart, on film wearing someone’s (or something’s?) skin on his face while screaming her full maiden name in a Taco Bell Cantina—that was worth taking the Lord’s name in vain."
—@oliviacrandall, "Wild Boys"
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"The trouble starts when I’m late picking up Maggie. 7:48. How 7:48 is late when she said “seven-ish” is beyond me, but Maggie is unyielding in her interpretation of time, of rules, of me."
—Lila-Rose Beckford, "Banshee"
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"While I talked about my husband (adoring), my career (rewarding), and my upcoming trip to Barcelona, he diagrammed the perfect bank robbery on a damp cocktail napkin—no guns."
—Pirette McKamey, "Could Be"
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"Pauline’s thoughts wandered among the dead, just a half dozen feet below. If they could speak with the living, what would they say about loneliness?"
—J. Stillwell Powers, "Animal Control"
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"At first, he gave her presents, not money outright, easing the path to explicit cash through the sort of gifts one would lavish on a real girlfriend."
—Katerina Ivanov Prado, "Dog Years"
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"Don’t you ever feel as if the world is desperate to explain something in a language too immense for you to grasp?"
—Davin Faris, "Featherweight"
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"It was the kind of top you’d wear to a dinner party on the Upper East Side in a pre-war apartment building with high ceilings and built-in bookshelves."
—Liz Rose Shulman, "Maybe Someday"
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“You only kiss me in the dark.”
“I kiss you when I feel like it.”
“You kiss me when no one sees us.”
—Cristina Chira, "Each Other"
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"I loved him, first, in an attic apartment in Eastern Iowa: wood paneled, pitched ceiling, carpeted even in the bathroom."
—Amelia Christmas Gramling, "He Said the House Was Haunted"
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"I became convinced that Butchie was a malignant, supernatural force. A duppy. A demon. A Rolling Calf."
—Stephenjohn Holgate, "Rolling Calf"
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"Pixie showed up on our doorstep one morning in June, looking more like a carnival sideshow act than our new renter."
—Katie Henken Robinson, "Sermons"
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"She called her car “the Clit” because it was small, round-roofed and painted fleshy pink."
—Caoimhe McKeogh, "Strawberries, Metal, and Blood"
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"Stargazers, something of a next-door neighbor to gardenias from a perfumer’s perspective, have their own similarly narcotic, if slightly less robust, fragrance."
—Amy Wilde, "Stargazers"
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"The election—not deer.
Years passing like dull weekends—deer.
Dad refusing therapy and pitching a solo reverse-immigration—not deer."
—Sena Moon, "Not Deer"
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"Minori’s extraction is tomorrow, and so Sarah has listened to records all day."
—Danielle Sherman, "Reach Out"
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"As challenging as some of the subject matter in these pieces is, these stories and essays are also filled with light: with humor and hope, with kindness and forgiveness." —Andrew Porter
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The grill is full—long green peppers on the right, kebab in the middle, lamb and chicken on the left—when in my peripheral vision I see Bora beckon the foreigner into the kitchen.
—Hardy Griffin, "Ahmet Usta"
Summer SSA 1st Place!
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This marvelous story begins with instructions that feel more like a kind of ritual; we soon see how grief and vengeance, when held close for so long, can shape our actions until they become a way of life—or until they do us in. —Guest Judge Jennine Capó Crucet
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