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I collect random lies.

GROCERY STORE TRUTH BY MARY WOLFF 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 56

I can feel the flutter of eyes from the housewives as they judge my movements.

I fear I’ll lose my intensity, my stubbornness in the face of injustice.

SPIRITUAL SEIZURES BY MARKITA NAOMI SCHULMAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 56

When I am four feet tall, and there are just two weeks until summer vacation, I jump in the pool after school and the chlorine stings. I pour milk from a gallon jug in my eyes. After dark, I cry desperately in my bed and when my mother comes I tell her, “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.”

It’s all change, 

it’s all crumbling.

ENTROPY BY WILL LONGMAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 56


34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 56

TOUJOURS BY HANNAH HORNSEY, ENTROPY BY WILL LONGMAN, AT INTO AND THROUGH LAWN CARE CON BY JIM MEIROSE, OUTPATIENT REHAB AFTER WORK UNTIL THE INSURANCE RUNS OUT BY MARY WOLFF, SPIRITUAL SEIZURES BY MARKITA NAOMI SCHULMAN, SAVED BY A FRIEND, NOW DEAD BY GLENN MOSS.

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