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True Impressions of Our Education, Pt. I
“If religious belief was available, that would surely be a better alternative.”
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Elan Kluger
From My Perch in the Sandhills
“These scandals seem to spawn from the dead space in quiet towns where select boards order murals to be painted over crumbling brick exteriors.”
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Brendilou Armstrong
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The Abbey in Kalamazoo
“Then for no reason at all he looked up and saw loose branches floating in the air, pebbles whizzing like bullets against the window, and the rain…
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Ben Samuels
2
From the Mouth of the Flytrap
"I was the Venus flytrap, and my vaginismus was telling me something about myself that I didn’t know."
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Eva Murillo
1
Two-State Friendship
“My next question is, why are you friends with me?”
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Ramsey Alsheikh
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Elan Kluger
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