The End of the World – June 2022

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Milk This isn’t about how the child suckled, his flushed lips parted, eyes closed in a bliss of nourishment, the smell of his cheek after— This is about the text message she received from a lover years after the final time she breastfed— on her tank top this night, directly over the nipple: the small circular stain. She only notices it later when she brushes her hair in the mirror. The body with its leaked truths startles her in the bathroom light. What else will her body semaphore when she ignores its urges, when she tries to escape


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Recommendations

3min
pages 160-166

Biographies

6min
pages 154-159

Everything Past Iron

11min
pages 145-153

NONFICTION | Kerri Goers The Pleiades

2min
pages 143-144

NONFICTION | Claudia Simone Franklin A Cartography of What is Left: A German Lyric Bavaria and Berlin 1945

4min
pages 134-137

FICTION | Keli Flynn Davidson Puissance

12min
pages 124-131

Berlin, 1945 and 1947, East Kingston, 2015

5min
pages 138-142

of Georgia O’Keeffe

1min
pages 122-123

A shame about the money

1min
page 121

I’m Easy

1min
pages 119-120

Mother and Child

1min
page 118

POETRY | Krysia Wazny McClain The Blur

1min
pages 116-117

FICTION | Meiko Ko The Broken Nose

14min
pages 107-115

FICTION | Logan Royce Beitmen Shooting Barin Ghosh

13min
pages 96-106

Alexandria

3min
pages 85-88

Battleships and Billfish

7min
pages 91-95

American Airlines DFW > DTW

1min
pages 89-90

Unspool

1min
page 84

FICTION | Michele Feeney Like Family

16min
pages 70-80

POETRY | Richard Brait Reading the Spanish Flu, 2020

5min
pages 64-69

NONFICTION | Patricia Martin PRIDE

6min
pages 52-56

FICTION | Gina Fallas-Rodriguez A Voice

3min
pages 57-59

The Empress’ Attire

4min
pages 60-63

FICTION | James Roseman The Intermediary of Abraham

11min
pages 44-51

Upstate, Damian

1min
page 43

Brandon is a Wig Maker

1min
page 42

Sunshine Park

1min
pages 40-41

Milk

1min
pages 13-14

POETRY | Claressinka Anderson He Sends Me Blue Mountains, a Field

1min
pages 11-12

Manhunt

1min
pages 17-18

FICTION | Lucy Faye Rosenthal Neither Here nor There

19min
pages 25-36

POETRY | Nico Amador On Continuation

1min
pages 37-38

Bottleneck

1min
page 39

If I Were There

1min
page 24
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