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Everything, she thought, is an accident of where you are.
The desk drawer housed hundreds upon hundreds of cap erasers, stolen one by one from the supply closet when no one was looking. Matte and pink, they…
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Ask me what I would give to have my life back.
They think he was a gambler. This place used to be the fancy house and gambling parlor for all of McCann County. Men who worked the valley farms or…
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I took these photos with a Kodak disposable camera walking along the border between Ridgewood and Bushwick, New York City.
The images speak to my often overwhelming, frequently isolating, experience of city life. ALONG THE BORDER BY JACOB MONIZ 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE…
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She emerged from the back door and lifted her face to the sun.
We stared through the garage door from the dark. None of us breathed. In that rectangle of light, she was separate from us, unreal and apart, as if…
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34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE
November 2023
Delilah discovered this wine that’s only 14 bucks a bottle and pretty damn good.
By the time it’s past midnight and we’ve gone through four bottles she’s asleep on the couch. WHAT GOOD IS LOVE BY EMILY GARCÍA 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE…
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She had been in a toothpaste ad on TV. She was also in my writing workshop.
By the second week of school, I was half in love with her; I assumed everyone was, or would have been, had she not been such a bitch with her critiques…
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I’ve always wondered about the sex of the letter A.
DAY FIVE (THE SECOND TIME) BY ANN PEDONE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 115 All I heard of the conversation was “They all said she asked for it” The Roman…
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I was a prisoner of the Shawnee.
I am Pompey. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Jerome Chandler. I was born in the year of our Lord 1741 in the county of Culpeper in the colony of Virginia. THE…
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No-one can foresee how real stories will turn out.
Life changes slowly, might not evolve at all.
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October 2023
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