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Aug 12 min read

August Pick: SUMMER'S EDGE

Ah, August. Nothing screams summer quite like an untrustworthy ensemble unraveling, one by one, deep in the woods. Right? Several moments...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

Sisters

You’re getting older. I can see it now lying in your bed, my reflection warped in a makeshift drinking glass. I can’t know how many...

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An Instructional Guide to Saying Thank You

sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

An Instructional Guide to Saying Thank You

Overripe mangoes melt in wicker baskets strays sip from sprinkler head pools Nothing’s too pristine not the buildings or their...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

A Plastic Statue of Christ

It is Good Friday. We are sad and quiet and dark. In the midst of knees swollen from kneeling, standing, kneeling again approach altar...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

first home

just me in that endless house wandering through cold hallways up wide wooden steps there were ghosts in the back bedroom soft purple...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

Transformation

Under the moon, I shovel soil and sand with my hands. I claw. I consume with an arch in my back. I swallow the ground that buried you...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 43 min read

Foundations

Through the infinite back door of my grandparents’ house, I remember believing in the sanctuary of stuff—the eternally cluttered— that it...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

War Is Over

This is a story of destruction. I remember feeling like I was floating eternally when you said goodbye. Sailing in a state of oblivion I...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

Purgatory

I don’t go to church like I used to. The tabernacle is locked and the pews are dusty with the dead skin and hair follicles of what I once...

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sophiavelasquezmar

Mar 41 min read

Ritual of My Sister

On the ride to the cemetery, winter had returned again, and our skin remembered its trauma through the open car windows. Your eyes opened...