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Creative nonfiction, memoir, and twisted ideas about what's actually there when you connect the dots.

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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Brown thumb, green mustache, blue berries (opens the original)

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    The future, August 2029: it’s morning, and the little strawberry-blonde rubs her eyes and pads barefoot across the back porch. She’s four now, and Grammy says that’s old enough to go in the yard by herself. Besides, the house is quiet. Her parents are asleep, and she can smell Papa’s coffee but he’s not in the kitchen. She will scout new hiding places for their game: seek, tickle, bear hug, repeat.She tiptoes across gravel onto soft clover, then pauses to consider her destination: the scent of h

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