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Your girlfriend’s been in an accident, they said on the phone.

MOTORCYCLE BY CHRISTOPHER HEFFERNAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 134
What’s left of the motorcycle is in pieces in the front yard. The fork bent in an S and the front wheel caved in.

She turned away from him, this stranger.

BAYONNE BY RICHARD BREYER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 134
How are you doing? he asked, hoping she’d recognize his voice. She didn’t answer.

He started to tell me about his life.

PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE BY RUHI JIWANI 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 134
If I leave my wife, my daughter won’t be taken care of.

We Built This City on terrible songs.

BAD SONGS (FT. STARSHIP) BY CRAIG CONSTANTINE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 134
The band lip-serviced Perfect / As I slipped out of the reception, / To the streets full of masked men / Bent on some abuela’s abduction.

All the while my panic rises with the water.

THE WAY OF WATER BY GABRIEL ZAMORA 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 134
We hear the gringo girls screaming for help as the camp is flooding. Through sheets of rain we see SUVs floating by with their headlights on, swirling in deep, swift water.

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MOTORCYCLE BY CHRISTOPHER HEFFERNAN, FLARS BY LINDSAY SMITH, PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE BY RUHI JIWANI, BAYONNE BY RICHARD BREYER, OUR PECULIAR GARDEN BY HR HARPER, CALL NOTES BY TRACE SHERIDAN, BAD SONGS (FT. STARSHIP) BY CRAIG CONSTANTINE, THE WAY OF WATER BY GABRIEL ZAMORA.

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