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I Live Here

Up the Mountain

April 29, 2022

Ye Lijun

translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain     Rustling in the grass. A little squirrel hauls a large fluffy tail among twigs and branches an instantaneous flash. Empty mountain. Birds singing. Flapping feathers so minute, yet ubiquitous . . . … Continued

The Prescription

March 15, 2017

Yannick Murphy

In our field is a bull. It is just the head—the horns sticking out from the snow. The bull died suddenly and the owners wanted to know why and so my husband sent the lab a tissue sample. In the … Continued

“I Live Here”

March 13, 2017

Minna Zallman Proctor

Since we first planned it, I have always thought of this issue’s theme as environmentalist. “I live here”: this is my planet, my legacy, my context, resources, responsibility. But one of the advantages of gestating a literary magazine is that … Continued

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