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Incredible Empathy

Thomas Renjilian

I. Lucas started losing hair on his twenty-third birthday. He woke to dark spirals on his sheets and his chest almost bare. There’d been so few hairs to begin with, just two rings around his nipples, and the strands had detached in clumps, so each nipple was surrounded by a ... read more

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Honesty is Bragging When You're Me: A Portrait of a Bitcoin Millionaire

Tess Fahlgren

Reading Wired magazine on the toilet at his parents’ house in 2012, Randon learned about Bitcoin. When the cryptocurrency was ...

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Livestream

Elle Nash

I made plans to drive to my parents’ house in Bend, Oregon, a dirty white clapboard on the corner of ...

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Fathom

Grace Campbell

Even after eleventymillionish lukewarm texts, we still walk through the gluten free/Kurt Cobain Anecdote Repository of downtown Olympia. Together. You ...

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Doublings

Shabnam Nadiya

The first anonymous letter arrived by mail and was addressed to me. The return address was fake. It said, From: ...

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The Stage-Divers

Kevin Sampsell

He was just turning fifty, newly divorced, and never felt comfortable anywhere. His ass started to ache while he sat ...

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Vanilla

Ruth Joffre

We go to the beach house every summer, some combination of my mother, father, March, and me. March and my ...

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Smooth

Kate Jayroe

We met outside a coffee shop where you can pay to pet kitties. I said what do you do in ...

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The Guest

Jennie Melamed

She arrives on May 26th. A Monday. After all the days on my real calendar were crossed off, I made ...

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Zero Hour

Steph Wong Ken

A transfer student from another Catholic high school, Rose McCraig liked to talk about the sickly saints, the holy anorexics ...

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Orcas Terminal

Marcelle Heath

We were at the ferry terminal when the explosion went off. My spouse and I were on an anniversary trip ...