These Days

BY LEIGH HOPKINS

These days, no one wants to talk about it. The answer is “I can’t talk about it.” The same five words released in a warm, slow leak, uttered in the same, tired inflection.

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Leigh Hopkins
Somewhere Beyond Reason

BY MARISSA KORBEL

I don’t know how to talk about being Jewish.Whether I want it or not, an ancestral fear lives in my body. Fear of being singled out, of being known, shamed, stoned, beaten, run out of town, killed.

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Marissa Korbel
You Are the Rest of Us

BY LEIGH HOPKINS

The artist is filling the town with ghosts. She stacks cinderblock statues in forgotten chain link corners and adorns them with colored glass, sun-bleached agave skeletons, and rusty tools from the belly of the desert. She gives them faces like saints.

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Leigh Hopkins
The Geometry of Want

BY MARISSA KORBEL

Hipbone jutting out at the right angle, cocked and loaded, ready to go off like a gun. I used to wiggle down when I walked, because it made all my flesh bounce and the rhythm of my wobble pleased me because it pleased them. 

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Marissa Korbel
Little Vulcan Runaway

BY RIOS DE LA LUZ

I used to run long distance when I was in middle school. I wore gold and green to represent my school. I was not a formidable opponent. I was very skinny. I was barely a person, but I was.

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