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MAMA BY KIMBERLY THEODORE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 136 PREVIEW
Dec 28, 2025
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Like the bomb on Nagasaki all over again.
I drank the Kool-Aid hard, shoved it into my brain through a metal IV tube, rewired every neuron for this one relentless purpose.
Dec 21, 2025
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His eyes must shimmer with unmatched intelligence.
Mason beheld the pre-dawn vista: Badlands to infinity.
Dec 19, 2025
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How ravishing that first kiss was.
All along a switcheroo.
Dec 1, 2025
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Baby.
Baby baby baby.
Dec 1, 2025
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She asks if I’d ever seen the moon from a factory window.
In the kitchen I find her last cigarette unsmoked.
Dec 1, 2025
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We are, after all, here to see a play by Shakespeare.
There, sir, stop.
Dec 1, 2025
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What a mouthful.
I came to realize what a mouthful was in this city.
Dec 1, 2025
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It’s nice to see our taxes working, you know, these free buses.
The silence is pierced by a car alarm.
Dec 1, 2025
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October 2025
Your girlfriend’s been in an accident, they said on the phone.
What’s left of the motorcycle is in pieces in the front yard.
Oct 1, 2025
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We Built This City on terrible songs.
The band lip-serviced Perfect / As I slipped out of the reception, / To the streets full of masked men / Bent on some abuela’s abduction.
Oct 1, 2025
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He started to tell me about his life.
If I leave my wife, my daughter won’t be taken care of.
Oct 1, 2025
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