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The half-burned wreckage of her last cigarette, —George Bilgere, “Blank” I went to two locations of mass shootings this week. […]

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I wake up in the morning and I am a terrorist. I wash the dishes, I read the news. My hands are a terrorist’s hands.

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Remember when social media was about sandwiches? A high school classmate would post a picture of the sandwich he had for lunch with a caption like “#epiclunch” and I might have felt some envy, or some...

From a single raindrop to an ice sheet, the physical world is haunted by unpredictability.

How you say it certainly says something about who you are.

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My Mother is the Rock, the Mountain, Sisyphus, The Wickedness of God, Brat Aspirational, Lunatic Liar Lord, You Know You Down Bad When You Call Jesus

The issue of Yellow Arrow Journal (Vol. X, No. 1, Spring 2025) on the theme of UNFURL is available as a paperback. Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual literary journal of creative nonfiction and poetry...

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England. T...

Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.

It seems like I was always on a Los Angeles freeway when we’d talk about how her water was shut off

Sometimes, lately, I don’t believe it: the news, the grocery store flyer hawking deals on things I never buy.

There was snow on the ground when they put my brother’s bedframe out on the curb. The next morning, both were gone.

Submit an original poem that makes creative use of the words that the Trump administration is flagging on government websites and research papers. See the list (PDF). There is no fee to enter. Final j...

While the White House carved out a narrow exemption for some semiconductor imports, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs still apply to GPUs and chipmaking equipment.

Scientists compiled decades of data to reveal the continent hiding beneath millions of miles of ice.

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We both know the smell of a convenience store at 4 a.m. like the backs of alotta hands. She sells me trucker crack/Mini-Thins (it’s like Vivarin). She doesn’t make me feel awkward about it. She can te...

But the assault on Yemeni civilians the hapless conspirators discussed in their private chat group is an even bigger disgrace—though so far the press haven’t paid much attention.

More to the left, he says, then leans to watch the dangling claw from a better angle as I guide the stubby joystick, grease-slick from unwashed hands—just two coin-fed alley kids fishing for a way to ...

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Shivani Mehta’s poetry blends magical realism with deep emotional truths. Read her evocative prose poems, where memory, myth, and the everyday merge into hauntingly beautiful narratives.