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Ditch and Drain

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through […]

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The evening Amma left us began like all the other evenings of my childhood. I sat at the old dining table with its powder-blue Formica top peeling at the edges, pretending to work on my long division exercises while watching Amma chop snake

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The evening Amma left us began like all the other evenings of my childhood. I sat at the old dining table with its powder-blue Formica top peeling at the edges, pretending to work on my long division exercises while watching Amma chop snake

My Left Hand, Unholy

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana

Blue Skies, Birdsong

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Do you know about the 1997 coup d’état in Sierra Leone? You might have heard about it if you saw that 2006 Leo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, which did a surprisingly good job with the subject matter, given the Hollywood factor. But this

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Do you know about the 1997 coup d’état in Sierra Leone? You might have heard about it if you saw that 2006 Leo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, which did a surprisingly good job with the subject matter, given the Hollywood factor. But this

Excerpts From Skyside

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

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