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DS Maolalai

Landscape

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I lie, ribs caved in and cracked up like shattered shipping pallets, smashed and battered, dropped in the yard of an industrial estate, forgotten about out of the way somewhere,…

Kristin LaFollette

The Outsider

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is the woman with no children— I’m not tall enough to see what everyone carries, the broomsticks they hold behind their backs. My feet— They haven’t taken me as far…