The Offing

Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.

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This season, we celebrate the moving work of our Feature, artist Kyong Boon Oh! Experience "Walk the Path," a process of self-reflection and self-discovery through #sculpture. Read her meditative process:
https://t.co/ZKkJZHHcB5

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"#The pelicans inside our rib cages feel
#the math before they precess inward,
#beat their wings, say,
import numpy as np
import math"

Read "N-Body Setup" by @racetosomewhere

https://t.co/hknuK44CR3

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"Dear Frog,
Remember when we searched for the ladle of the Big Dipper and the pelicans swooped under the night? In my poem, the birds are ellipses obscuring stars, planets, and clusters of galaxies."

Read "Frog and Toad are Friends" by @racetosomewhere

https://t.co/hknuK44CR3

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"Well instead of wars, we should just do capture the flag.

No more wars...

Just capture the flag."

Read "Home" by Brooke Emily

https://t.co/8XuJ2cguZd

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"This place: this place is a shit show.

It's beautiful too."

Read "Home" by Brooke Emily

https://t.co/8XuJ2cguZd

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"You’d think you wouldn’t be able to take a bite of raw flesh, but it’s only because your mind stops you from biting hard enough. If you believe you can, if you really want to, you can eat anything."

Read "Foreigner" by @fiazswan

https://t.co/bxdFjHt5Sv

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"We may be born with a similar innocence, but it can never be preserved like in an animal. This is why there’s no real guilt to feel for eating another person..."

Read "Foreigner" by @fiazswan

https://t.co/bxdFjHt5Sv

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"these fingernails are beds
for what once were their mouths
biting down to hold against the wind"

Read "older than woven" by nicole v basta

https://t.co/wtZpswjA0o

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"the word empathy is a boot
on the lowback of an ancestor
my spine curved, facedown
the dirt, a window"

Read "older than woven" by nicole v basta

Read "older than woven" by nicole v basta

https://t.co/wtZpswjA0o

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"If you are a pet or horse owner, please press 1. You touched something that was moving, and now everything is watermarked."

Read "Contagion" by Duy Đoàn

https://t.co/v4DXZv47UG

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"Would you rather ride a horse or a donkey. The horse is smaller than the donkey, but I won’t tell you how big the donkey is."

Read "Contagion" by Duy Đoàn

https://t.co/v4DXZv47UG

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"Searching for clues on their persistence over the decades alongside their inevitable decay, the stories and people shaped within this space started to reveal themselves."

Read "La Memoria de las Paredes" by Paulina Avila

https://t.co/SNQOYiJ6up

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"As I documented the walls of the home through my camera, I began questioning their construction and composition."

Read "La Memoria de las Paredes" by Paulina Avila

https://t.co/SNQOYiJ6up

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"Blue in action was a matter of life or death, and you avoided it at all costs, not jump into it like Chikara unless you wanted to die."

Read "Where the Blue Rests" by Norie Suzuki

https://t.co/x7TSDbp7JM

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"Blue in action was a matter of life or death, and you avoided it at all costs, not jump into it like Chikara unless you wanted to die."

Read "Where the Blue Rests" by Norie Suzuki

https://t.co/x7TSDbpFzk

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"I have
enemies now
and I find it most pleasurable."

Read "Flirting In The New Age" by @sfeycreates

https://t.co/rASwKghvsS

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"when someone splinters your blood, a million tías spill out

when the gods tire of their stars, they will create
a new galaxy of tía-shaped constellations"

Read "Tía-shaped" by @cloudelfina

https://t.co/M0WvMd9Juu

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"Hey baby, you seem so harmless. Your energy is sweet, like you
won’t do me too much damage."

Read "Flirting In The New Age" by @sfeycreates

https://t.co/rASwKghvsS

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"tía Daniela has a Depeche Mode rose tattooed above her ankle

tía Hortensia moves from pot to pot across her backyard,
begonias, hibiscus, and gardenias anointed with holy hose water"

Read "Tía-shaped" by @cloudelfina

https://t.co/M0WvMd9Juu

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"lush velvet

of her
voice

erupting
from the

radio
the rumble

of thunder
breaking"

Read "Insomnia" by Malik Thompson

https://t.co/X6UOj5V4ka

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"Anita’s song—

so much
rapture

pouring
from her

throat
it’s been

so long
the night"

Read "Insomnia" by Malik Thompson

https://t.co/X6UOj5VC9I