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Issue 5: Artificial Realities
And They Said It Would Be Divine
Christina Edwards
Fiction
,
Prose
It breaks like this: We hold on tightly, and literally, because we’re young and we’re stupid and because we still want to have hope.
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The Privilege is All Mine
Fagan Kuhnmuench
Art
Seeing Dolores walk in, or someone who looked like a Dolores (he’d had more than a few since clocking out)
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Blue Before Dark
Lia Ryerson
Fiction
,
Prose
For six days after the operation, everything was blue.
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ISOPROPYL (JESUS ENTERS THE MATRIX)
Joe McCarthy
Audio
,
Fiction
I’m sitting with Larry at a Chipotle in midtown and his thousand-yard stare tells me I might dial the nihilism down a notch.
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Riot
TJ Fuller
Art
In seeking truth, the internet is the most powerful tool humanity has ever had.
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Jersey City Poems
Laura Cronk
Poetry
A swirl of trash – / I’m dodging it. / A gust of nasty wind. / Now you’re about to be / even more remote.
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“Oh, Galileo”
Meredith Westgate
Fiction
,
Prose
The purple haze of Jupiter surrounds us in its cool-toned glow.
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Where You Go
Ruth Elizabeth Morris
Fiction
,
Prose
From my desk, I watch her turn the pages. She is meticulous, each touch / feather-light and exact in her dissection.
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See Through and Shaking with Holes of Silver
Julia Johanne Tolo
Poetry
the world ran out of people / but we’re still here / we do normal things / take the subway home to / each other hold hands / when no one’s looking
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Behind the Cotton Wool
Amélie Girard
Nonfiction
,
Prose
At age four, I used to secretly squeeze through the cracks in our backyard fence to go and explore the world on the other side.
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The Human Trap
Hala H. Hassan
Art
‘The Human Trap‘ portrays the failure of the world to reconcile the concepts of evolution and globalization.
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Artificial Realities
Issue Parent
Who can we trust to convey information to us, and how much are we actually willing to accept truths that counter our own realities?
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