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FICTION | FRANCIS DUFFY

In this beautifully told story, Francis Duffy’s main character reflects on a boyhood steeped in dogma, patriarchy,...

Lights in the Night

MEMOIR | RANDY SPENCER

In the 1990s, there was astronomical research that showed that Washington County, Maine was second only to area 51 in...

Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer

JERRY VIS

In the 1950s, Jerry Vis had an uneventful, blue-collar, stickball-in-the-street childhood in Paterson, N.J. That is, until his father,...

Kicked Out of the PTA!

AMY FERGUSON

This humorous story is about all of the masks we wear to fit in with people whose masks look a little bit shinier than ours under...

Playing Air Guitar in Paris

ROBERTO LOIEDERMAN As a young man, Roberto Loiederman read Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer," and George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London,"...