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“Thom was embracing
& being embraced by
another man when suddenly
out of the steam Michel Foucault
padded up to them on all fours,
barking madly like a dog,
and began licking Thom’s feet.”

Read new poems by James Cummins on R&R:

https://t.co/BwlHkKHnbM

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“Whenever a big piece went viral, it was hard not to wonder if the criticisms of it that resulted were not based a bit in jealousy. Why did you get something I want?”

Read new fiction by Grace Byron on R&R:

https://t.co/C5KKy63zSv

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“You can’t tell when strange things with meanings will happen
Avoiding a root, adjusting easily to some rough place”

Read new poems by Julia Vose on R&R:

https://t.co/UiYxRGnu88

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‘Years before, I’d first read Robinson Jeffers. One poem had the line,
“I’d sooner kill a man than a hawk.” I tore the book in half and threw it at a wall.’

Read new poems by Keith Shein on R&R:

https://t.co/AWLBIbA9dG

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“She lived with her dog, who was also her husband.

Sometimes she let him watch her while she swallowed live frogs.”

Read five new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R:

https://t.co/xEJVQb5x32

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“‘When did you find out you were blessed, Herbie,” Chloe asked. “Wednesday,” Herbie said. “No, wait,” he said, “it was Tuesday. Late on Tuesday. In the middle of the night.’”

Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R:

https://t.co/YLR15CXJBM

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“This is your mother. I hoped you’d be home but that’s fine; I know you’re busy.”

Read three new poems by Ron Koertge on R&R:

https://t.co/LkhlgmbnAh

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“I remember Bill one time told me he’d put a rifle in his mouth just to see how it felt. He told me this on my birthday.

I asked how it felt.

He said, Ha. Bad.”

Read new fiction by Leonard Meldbath on R&R:

https://t.co/BFkzFY1ghs

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“This is not a video game.

It’s not a movie.

It’s not Scotland Yard.

It’s fucking real life.”

Read five new poems by Marie Buck on R&R:

https://t.co/31pbb9QEos

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“I’ve grown
accustomed

to the way
she says that’s

enough or try
harder or not

tonight I have
a headache”

Read four new poems by Pat Nolan on R&R:

https://t.co/UhlNlXXcKE

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“What the readings are, what Father Hank mumbles for a homily—that I can’t say, because it’s not long after the priest gets to the pulpit that this psycho wanders inside the church.”

Read new fiction by Alexander Sammartino on R&R:

https://t.co/piLI67mYWk

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“Somewhere on this planet of shiny phones and dressed salads, maps of oceans and brass doorknobs, a giraffe is greedily separating seeds from a pod with its violet tongue.”

Read two stories by Santiago Craig, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude:

https://t.co/iTa5DaeTNf

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“We strongly request that you do not send us any more of your work, and that you abstain from sending it to any other literary magazine so as to not waste any time on either parties.”

Read new writing by Ellie Goins on R&R:

https://t.co/ly5wLZaF8U

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Read new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: https://t.co/lGoWwnj9s7

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“First, a train ran over me.
Then I was killed in a car crash.
Then I was killed in another car crash.
Then I was eaten by a bear.
Then I went swimming, and a shark attacked me and ate me.”

Read six new poems by F. Keith Wahle:

https://t.co/lGoWwnj9s7

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“And how could he look like lightning
If he was wearing clothes?
And how could the clothes be white as snow
If there was never any snow?”

Read two new poems by Donald Berger on R&R:

https://t.co/knx5DftdqE

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“I sit around to reduce
my spending
to change
my way of life
tomato, mozzarella, basil
to look forward to”

Read four new poems by Paul Maziar on R&R:

https://t.co/kT6QojQFM4

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“The worst is feeling
I must spend my life
trapped inside a tree with you.”

Read three new poems by Elaine Bleakney:

https://t.co/HGXO9sdtMe

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“‘You don’t know a thing you’re talking about. A leprechaun could crawl over right now and whip you in the skull, and you’d think a piece of airplane had fallen from the sky and hit you.’”

New fiction by Alex Ransom on R&R:

https://t.co/dQM1NJ58js

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“That trusty time-tested
cottonwood-leaf hat, rustling,
sussing, chuckling just overhead.”

Read four new poems by Merrill Gilfillan on R&R:

https://t.co/o89kfrr6AF