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      author: Harrison, Kali
       title: Far Below
        date: 2019
       words: 108
      flesch: 82
     summary: Awaken, fumbling puddles of warm, Egyptian cotton. Far below, the corner of 28th and Jackson bustles.
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      author: Dodd, Aaron
       title: Pools 1, 2, 3
        date: 2019
       words: 31
      flesch: 49
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 5 Pools I Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd genesis spring 2016 33 Pools III Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd 20 genesis spring 2016 Pools II Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd
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      author: Christoff, Claire
       title: The Day After He Dumped You
        date: 2019
       words: 129
      flesch: 73
     summary: The day after he dumped you, let’s-just-take-a-break–style you saw a dead bird on the sidewalk and took a picture of it and sent it to him and he didn’t reply but what did you expect like the dead robin you saw outside the library before it really got cold, sort of an avian miscarriage or maybe abortion, sinewy and sad and kind of like chewed gum, bird bacon and the snow that fell on your head under the singing orange streetlamp, rivulets of broken yolk through your hair. Except it wasn’t snow, it dried hard and purple and you used an entire bottle of Pantene to make you feel civilized again.
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      author: Dimitrova, Kalia
       title: Neruda's Roselets
        date: 2019
       words: 183
      flesch: 88
     summary: You want me sweet and light I am torta caprese, you go back to in that corner café in Capri where you write me in hot evenings when I wait to be born over and over. genesisSpring2016.pdf 34 genesis spring 2016 In your palms I dissolve, you want me tender, I am seawater disappearing in your warmth.
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      author: Turmail, Sarah
       title: With Love, Steve
        date: 2019
       words: 233
      flesch: 74
     summary: I drive in with the consolation prize of McDonald’s won with the change, thinking of stale dollar store air, and stale McChickens, ranch only. I look for some last minute love, printed and sold for a dollar and some change, matching envelope included.
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      author: DeHart, Jacob
       title: Sprawl
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 49
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      author: Keller, Kyle
       title: Yeah, No. Nothing Serious
        date: 2019
       words: 130
      flesch: 82
     summary: In a light sleep, she stirs & dreams once more of restless folk-strings on a worn stage, in orange -aura, outdoor summer symphonies, amid the hazy evening hum from hidden swarms of cicadas. Nothing Serious Kyle Keller
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      author: Turmail, Sarah
       title: The Lesser of Appalachia
        date: 2019
       words: 200
      flesch: 84
     summary: They hum the Southern battle cry with the cicadas, while closing screen doors keep the rhythm steadied. genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 31 strips of new wheat sway in the sand like planted chorus lines.
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      author: Rowley, Piper
       title: She
        date: 2019
       words: 1240
      flesch: 98
     summary: We looked at each other for a long time, eyes, and then she nodded, ever so slightly. Sometimes she steals my boxers, rolls the waist- She Piper Rowley genesis spring 2016 25 ly breathless.
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      author: Keller, Kyle
       title: Intact
        date: 2019
       words: 51
      flesch: 87
     summary: Another new trot across the meadow as my moon waltzes coyly with clouds, to the music of wind. Intact Kyle Keller
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Dragonfruit
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 50
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 23 Dragonfruit Colored Pencil on Paper 22x42” Lifan Fan
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      author: Perry, David
       title: Blue
        date: 2019
       words: 96
      flesch: 75
     summary: It began with a plastic smile, and all we remembered was the television, digital rain, in dead brainless black and white, acid rain, not yet drained from us, and a color we’d never seen before. I remember thinking that he might die like this, with tinsel streamers of steaming red screaming from every pore, and a blinding white light beaming from his eyes.
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      author: Turmail, Sarah
       title: A Butcher and His Family's First Christmas After Losing a Loved One
        date: 2019
       words: 318
      flesch: 94
     summary: They’re like any knife pulled from the drawer of spare Mason jar lids and stained hot pads. Aunt Jane just looks at me and shakes her head.
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      author: Schaefer, Mercedez
       title: Hello? God, It's Me, Mercedez
        date: 2019
       words: 1885
      flesch: 89
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 13 When my dog is sick, I regret not being clos- er to Jesus. The way I see it, there’s starvation, homelessness, disease, terrorism, and genocide all over the world, so you have to be pretty damned tight with Jesus if you want help when your dog - teen-year-old kid who walked the halls with me every day went to bed and never woke up.
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      author: Blacklock, Kelsey
       title: Bail Bonds
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 56
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 17 Bail Bonds Oil on Paper 6x12” Kelsey Blacklock
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      author: McMichael, Carie
       title: That Metaphor Bullshit
        date: 2019
       words: 263
      flesch: 59
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf 10 genesis spring 2016 All my classmates write important things to their ex-best friend, Jesus; they all seem deep and important, their nibs all too coagulated with ink to actually say what they’re talking about, so we coat it in waxy ambergris, terribly poignant, hyper-extended metaphor, something like, “I am a square peg in a round hole,” when what you really mean is I LOVE THE SENSATION OF ANAL INTERCOURSE AND AS A MAN, I QUESTION WHAT THAT MEANS FOR MY SEXUALITY, OR DARE I SAY, WHAT WILL MY MOM THINK? Perhaps the solid tangle of copper wire is not spool-able, which is what I scribble casually in some hollow margin when what I really mean is I AM TOO TONGUE-TIED, MY BRAIN IS TOO FRIED to eloquently convey my fractured being.
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      author: Blacklock, Kelsey
       title: Open/Closed
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 56
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf 12 genesis spring 2016 Open/Closed Oil on Canvas 22x30” Kelsey Blacklock
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      author: Naseeb, Laila
       title: AnGel
        date: 2019
       words: 16
      flesch: 68
     summary: genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 9 AnGel Gel Pen on Paper 8x11” Laila Naseeb Best of Art
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      author: Castoreno, Carolina
       title: Recuerdos
        date: 2019
       words: 347
      flesch: 82
     summary: for every nativity play and Dia de Guadalupe. Sorry Wela, the Virgencita doesn’t visit my house much these days.
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      author: Johnson, Victoria
       title: The Bee Whisperer
        date: 2019
       words: 3150
      flesch: 99
     summary: I’d seen Danny pet bees a dozen times Victoria Johnson genesis fall 2016 45 The Bee Whisperer by then, but this time, when he ran toward the bee, he must’ve frightened it. I one of Danny coloring.
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Whale Watching
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 46 genesis fall 2016 Oil on Canvas Whale Watching Lifan Fan
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      author: Lieshout, Atelier Van; Johnson, Victoria
       title: Funky Bones
        date: 2019
       words: 197
      flesch: 96
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 38 genesis fall 2016 Thinking of Funky Bones by Atelier Van Lieshout Funky Bones At first it’s a mess of white blocks lying on an open, green lawn with people walking and jumping from block to block. The girl jumps from bone to bone with her father holding her hand.
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      author: Miller, Keeley
       title: Modern Art
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 47
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 39 Photograph Modern Art Keeley Miller Best of Art; Cover
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      author: Staublin, Kathryn
       title: Phil the Plastic Prop Skeleton
        date: 2019
       words: 1873
      flesch: 90
     summary: MARSHALL What was that for? DELILAH MARSHALL Good morning, Delilah.
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      author: Wright, Samantha
       title: Mermaid
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 28
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 37 Acrylic Mermaid Samantha Wright
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      author: Christoff, Claire
       title: Free Falling
        date: 2019
       words: 802
      flesch: 89
     summary: The night rushed past in a blue haze as In age of less adept drivers and their cars struck Sam as being a sort of creepy memorial to something to stick his head out the window of Dick’s pick up truck like a dog and breathe in just one more taste of that deliciously thick air he had missed so much, but he had a feeling Dick wouldn’t like that. The cook opened the drawer, his stubby tents, Sam turned to Dick accusatorily.
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      author: Wright, Samantha
       title: Eye
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 29
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 28 genesis fall 2016 Acrylic Samantha WrightEye
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      author: Englert, Kyle Matthew
       title: CHAINS
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 35
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 24 genesis fall 2016 CHAINS Photograph Kyle Matthew Englert
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      author: Johnson, Victoria
       title: First Sleepover
        date: 2019
       words: 134
      flesch: 84
     summary: First Sleepover A Night with Van Gogh and Picasso Victoria Johnson She pointed at one of a woman with yellow lips who seemed to be in all places at once, and she laughed.
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      author: Miller, Keeley
       title: Bloom
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 22 genesis fall 2016 In Bloom Keeley Miller Photograph
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      author: Duff, Courtney
       title: Flower Preservation in Victorian England
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 30
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 23 Flower Preservation in Victorian England Best of Poetry
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      author: Lowry, Brook
       title: Pizza
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 64
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 20 genesis fall 2016 Pizza Brook Lowry Oil on Canvas
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      author: Spaulding, Brandon
       title: Ode to a Mug
        date: 2019
       words: 82
      flesch: 65
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 21 Ode to a Mug Brandon Spaulding O, exalted mug! To the multitude you may appear humdrum, even dreary; your smooth porcelain stained like walls of a deserted dollhouse and brunette rings of Saturn circling your cavity into infinity.
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      author: Johnson, Victoria
       title: Waitressing and Us
        date: 2019
       words: 2716
      flesch: 94
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 14 genesis fall 2016 Waitressing and Us Victoria Johnson I met Donald toward the end of the night. Many people were new and most “You know, Donald, maybe it would’ve worked in another life.”
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      author: Staublin, Kathryn
       title: Cookies to Die For
        date: 2019
       words: 114
      flesch: 68
     summary: Cookies to Die For Kathryn Staublin The jar is pumpkin shaped and made of glorious He lives within, wishing to smell the scent of Chocolate Chip Chewy Munchables Crunching with age.
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      author: Miller, Keeley
       title: The Red Queen
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf The Red Que n Keeley Miller Photograph 12 genesis fall 2016
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Golden Deer Still Life
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 65
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 7 Oil on Canvas Golden Deer Still Life Lifan Fan
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        item: #38 of 662
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      author: Bennett, Emily
       title: String Games
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 49
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 76 genesis spring 2017 String Games
    keywords: spring
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      author: Barnes, Samantha
       title: Curious Cat
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 77 Best of Curious Cat • Art
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        item: #40 of 662
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      author: Bennett, Emily
       title: The Sickness
        date: 2019
       words: 59
      flesch: 30
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 71 The Sickness Now that I am eight, I know a lot more about the world, •Best of Non-Fiction 72 genesis spring 2017 The Sickness genesis spring 2017 73 74 genesis spring 2017 Not long after that Mother told me I better be good The Sickness genesis spring 2017 75
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      author: Ketchem, Madeline
       title: The Fates and Why I Left Them
        date: 2019
       words: 140
      flesch: 72
     summary: With you all? Madeline Ketchem 64 genesis spring 2017 The Fates and Why I Left Them genesis spring 2017 65 Why? When I returned home that night, I told my mother that I Elizabeth and I rode home each day, Elizabeth turned toward me and Why? Madeline Ketchem 66 genesis spring 2017 ever The Fates and Why I Left Them genesis spring 2017 67 Madeline Ketchem 68 genesis spring 2017 The Fates and Why I Left Them genesis spring 2017 69 Madeline Ketchem genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 61 The Fates and Why I Left Them what is a ‘green day’?
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      author: Frisby, Emma
       title: Stuffed
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 37
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 70 genesis spring 2017
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      author: Bennett, Emily
       title: Trying My Best
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 60 genesis spring 2017 Steel
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      author: Hyde, JP
       title: What Comes Together Also Separates
        date: 2019
       words: 48
      flesch: 31
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 56 genesis spring 2017 What Comes Together Also Separates JP Hyde • genesis spring 2017 57 him but turn away unfazed unlike the day they, young and full of 58 genesis spring 2017 What Comes Together Also Separates genesis spring 2017 59 JP Hyde
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      author: Dobouni, Leena
       title: Excuses, Iraq, Chai
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 39
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 55 Excuses, Iraq, Chai
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      author: Flott, Caroline
       title: Detachment
        date: 2019
       words: 27
      flesch: 29
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 51 Detachment • 52 genesis spring 2017 Fast and Furious Detachment genesis spring 2017 53 54 genesis spring 2017 Detachment
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      author: Ketchem, Madeline
       title: For the Young Black Man with Heavy Footsteps
        date: 2019
       words: 75
      flesch: 79
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 48 genesis spring 2017 For the Young Black Man with Heavy Footsteps On my way home from the library I hear footsteps more often than not, They disappear at the stoplight on Blackford Or the crosswalk on Michigan. Today they fall heavy past both.
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      author: Bielicki, Kevin
       title: Consummation, Destruction, Desolation
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: -2
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 50 genesis spring 2017 Consummation, Destruction, Desolation
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: It's Lit
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 47 It’s Lit Lifan Fan
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      author: Holmes, Brooke
       title: Solitude
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 44 genesis spring 2017 Solitude
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      author: Rowley, Piper
       title: 7095
        date: 2019
       words: 51
      flesch: 37
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 41 7095 track, • 42 genesis spring 2017 The faith that failed him, The kitchen where he told me I am the evidence why are you crying, 7095 genesis spring 2017 43 I lay my head down and think of unknowing neighborhood, Piper Rowley
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      author: Cole, Corey
       title: Dr. Lector on the Lam
        date: 2019
       words: 38
      flesch: 48
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 45 Dr. Lector on the Lam • 46 genesis spring 2017 watching her grace in dealing with an unruly bunch of teenage cre Dr. Lector on the Lam by Corey Cole
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      author: Ketchem, Madeline
       title: The Mirror Sister
        date: 2019
       words: 54
      flesch: 26
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 38 genesis spring 2017 The Mirror Sister “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Hamilton, Wicked, The Book of Mormon the media our nation in unison poor bone structure sunken eye sockets small lips short eyelashes unpronounced eyebrows • genesis spring 2017 39 One day
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      author: Stille, Joelle
       title: Be a Work of Art
        date: 2019
       words: 16
      flesch: 63
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 40 genesis spring 2017 Be A Work of Art Joelle Stille
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      author: Miller, Keeley
       title: Colored Outside the Lines
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 50
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 37 Colored Outside the Lines
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      author: Bruszewski, Caitlyn
       title: A Poem for the Next Generation of Women
        date: 2019
       words: 305
      flesch: 89
     summary: hit, cheat, rape, or demean me because men do not want us to know that they are weak. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf A Poem for the Next Generation of Women Caitlyn Bruszewski I walk the streets at night hoping, wishing, praying That my clothing does not hug my body too tight.
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      author: Johannis, Devin
       title: Ripple Bench
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 37
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Ripple Bench Devin Johannis Soft Maple, Walnut Devin Johannis
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      author: Cole, Corey
       title: A Summer's Night on Skid Row
        date: 2019
       words: 102
      flesch: 82
     summary: promise good times desperately strutting like feral cats on the prowl. by the orange glare of street lamps. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf A Summer's Night on Skid Row Corey Cole outside the service station at 10th and Rural like moths to a gaslight.
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      author: Boehmer, Serena
       title: The Day of the Dreader
        date: 2019
       words: 17
      flesch: 65
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf The Day of the Dreader Serena Boehmer Acrylic Paints - 43 - Best of Art
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      author: Levart, Ben
       title: Liquids
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Liquids Ben Levart Photography Cover Art
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      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Metaphor
        date: 2019
       words: 102
      flesch: 84
     summary: when people ask if I’m ok, I tell them that shit happens. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Metaphor Kate Marquam the fall is not a metaphor for my father.
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      author: White, Michaela
       title: reflection.
        date: 2019
       words: 124
      flesch: 92
     summary: I wish I was not in love with color. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Michaela White I’m just sitting.
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      author: Carrico, Zach
       title: Frostbite
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 29
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Frostbite Zach Carrico Photography
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      author: Panfil, Matt
       title: The Infant Factory
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf The Infant Factory Cut-Paper Collage
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      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Nosferatu
        date: 2019
       words: 119
      flesch: 95
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Nosferatu Mario Stone I lurk in the black room with one frail light naked like a moon famished men with cadaver grins and sickle fangs beg at her feet. Their black veins glisten and throb, pulsing through taut skin.
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      author: White, Anna
       title: How to Walk to the Library
        date: 2019
       words: 159
      flesch: 96
     summary: Best of Fiction Fall 2017 final digital.pdf How to Walk to the Library Anna White one is looking.
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      author: Jones, Julian
       title: Mahogani. 2017
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 50
     summary: 2017 (from The Within Series) Julian Jones Photography Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Mahogani.
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      author: Panfil, Matt
       title: Victoria of the Insects
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 37
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Victoria of the Insects Cut-Paper Collage, Alcohol Inks
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      author: Bruszewski, Caitlyn
       title: Reflection
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 42
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Caitlyn Bruszewski Photography
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      author: Harkins, Ronan
       title: Soft Boy
        date: 2019
       words: 123
      flesch: -14
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Soft Boy Ronan Harkins You pray at night to gods thought long dead One day, they will answer but you don’t know when In the morning, In the afternoon, they teach you grace on your feet You wish to walk the earth with no fear and the gods behind you You are a rabid wolf trapped in the body of a child This skin is too tight This skin is an unrelenting snake with endless coils of muscle No, I will be a man worth fearing You are as a rose, they say Yes, but that does not make me weak I am not what you make me Only I know me Only the gods can make me
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      author: Coffman-Mackey, Elizabeth
       title: Beauty
        date: 2019
       words: 877
      flesch: 88
     summary: “I try harder than you,” she says in more words, words that sound like biting classroom insults, words like “lose weight” and “don’t be a slob.” Her waist is trim and her eyes are “You’re perfect,” I say, in more words, words that come out bitter and accusing.
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      author: Levart, Ben
       title: Liquids 2
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Liquids Ben Levart Photography Cover Art
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      author: Knapp, Will
       title: if lovin screw is wrong, I don't wanna be right
        date: 2019
       words: 21
      flesch: 79
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf if lovin screw is wrong, I don't wanna be right Will Knapp Ink with Digital Color
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      author: Schmitt, Isaac
       title: Forever Moments.
        date: 2019
       words: 15
      flesch: 63
     summary: Isaac Schmitt Photography 8.25 380 Isaac Schmitt accident pinned Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Forever Moments.
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      author: Caro, Rafael
       title: The Yellow Wood Chainsaw Massacre
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 32
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Rafael Caro Comic The Yellow Wood Chainsaw Massacre
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      author: Calhoun, Savannah
       title: Beauty Still Life
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 11
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Beauty Still Life Savannah Calhoun Digital Photography
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Yeah I have friends...Does my dog count?
        date: 2019
       words: 17
      flesch: 78
     summary: Lifan Fan Oil on Canvas Yeah I have friends...
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      author: Marley, Ethan
       title: Greenwood
        date: 2019
       words: 155
      flesch: 78
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Greenwood Ethan Marley Greenwood stands in front of its shabby house, bragging about the paint job and smoking with a steaming cup of joe down your shirt. Greenwood laughs at the kids with rings in their noses, hotels a town over in early March.
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      author: Rowley, Piper
       title: Feminine Bodies
        date: 2019
       words: 521
      flesch: 84
     summary: “Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.” these parts. Now, my body does not feel like my own. bodies.
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      author: Petrunich, Sydney
       title: The Universe of Us
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 18
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf The Universe of Us Sydney Petrunich Multimedia Collage
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      author: Jefferson, Brelyn
       title: Rita Marley and the Glitter Trail
        date: 2019
       words: 145
      flesch: 88
     summary: the Glitter Trail Brelyn Jefferson I trudged back to my room in lead slippers, noting the glitter trail snaked down the hall.
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      author: Taber, Ashley Rae
       title: Looking Back
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 26
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Looking Back Ashley Rae Taber Watercolor Paint
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      author: Carnes, M. E.
       title: Ode to washing my hands
        date: 2019
       words: 181
      flesch: 72
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Ode to washing my hands M.E. Carnes Grabbing ahold of the metal knob I pull it towards me, unleashing a torrent of water— and thud against the skin of my arms as if the water can sense inside of me. I watch as the steam rises, and like a burner on an old stove my hands turn an angry red; the water searing through my skin the pain ignited in my hands a distraction from the bruise that hugs my left eye, I take hold of the bar of soap twisting it between my hands I rub my hands against each other, coating them in the silky white silt— scrubbing every inch of skin that stretches as if I could wash away the purple bracelets his hands left on me.
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      author: Alcala, Joseph
       title: Poppies
        date: 2019
       words: 188
      flesch: 89
     summary: Thousands of miles away, his mother is making his favorite, hominy soup with potatoes. genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Poppies Joseph Alcala Here lies a ground soaked in blood.
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      author: Slabach, Katie
       title: Natural Nerves
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 46
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Natural Nerves Katie Slabach Ceramics, Leaves, Bark, Stains
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        item: #86 of 662
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      author: Douglas, Nick
       title: Drowning
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 26
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Drowning Nick Douglas Watercolor and Colored Pencil
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      author: Mendoza, Abby
       title: Dream of You
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 41
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Dream of You Abby Mendoza Dry Pastel
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      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: Molly Made Me Deconstruct My Masculinity
        date: 2019
       words: 380
      flesch: 82
     summary: There’s more power in holding hands Tanner Léon than there is in pulling yourself up. It takes more bravery to love, than to destroy.
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      author: Stump, Connor
       title: One of One
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 56
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf One of One Connor Stump Monotype Print with Ink
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        item: #90 of 662
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      author: Saylor, Allison
       title: Shackled
        date: 2019
       words: 2019
      flesch: 96
     summary: “Town Tiger,” I corrected. With wide eyes, I watched as the Town Tiger backed away from me.
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      author: Reed, Cameron
       title: Northern Lights
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 18
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Northern Lights Cameron Reed Watercolor and Acrylic Paints
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Red Eared Slider
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Red Eared Slider Lifan Fan Oil on Panel
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        item: #93 of 662
          id: genesis-23078
      author: Petrunich, Sydney
       title: Protector
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 11
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Protector Sydney Petrunich Oil Pastel and Acrylic
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        item: #94 of 662
          id: genesis-23080
      author: Baker, Krista
       title: Voiceless Toasts
        date: 2019
       words: 137
      flesch: 51
     summary: - 37 - Voiceless Toasts Krista Baker I’ve become an overflowing glass of water My emotions have drowned themselves In an ocean of numbness and so when I hear The vote is 50-48 I don’t feel it It doesn’t register in my body or my mind I simply nod Understanding the lack of understanding That this country seems to have I look at the person beside me The persons beside me I look at my sisters My mother, my friends I look at my future The future I potentially carry And I wonder if they’ll look up at me With big, wondering eyes And question the world the way that I do
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      author: Northcutt, Moriah
       title: Tankas for Runaways
        date: 2019
       words: 140
      flesch: 108
     summary: Paper cup in hand. - 54 - Tankas for Runaways Moriah Northcutt When is it my turn to be able to say mom or dad?
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      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: To my sister, the artist
        date: 2019
       words: 198
      flesch: 84
     summary: I beg you, little sister, stay soft. clearance-bin fabric, leftover scraps of family cut at odd angles around a missing father, your own body.
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      author: Hendricks, Elijah
       title: When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue
        date: 2019
       words: 320
      flesch: 74
     summary: As Death danced with the Ocean Blue Your lips meet mine in crashing waves which echo cries throughout the cave that I have lived in all this time Where I had hid till you were mine And then the spots of light appear My vision breaks and balance veers You’ve turned to mist and slowly faded Your lingering kiss has left me jaded I stumble then along the line For sleep has wronged me to feel right I was the boy who fooled his pain with visions of the falsely gained The Prince of Ghosts, I am the same - 41 - When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue Elijah Hendricks I search for solace, all alighted So consumed and unrequited For the sea to turn tides in my arms, erode my heart I meant no harm The wounds have opened up again Your salty skin poured over them While I tremble as I pine for you
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          id: genesis-23084
      author: Williams, Gano
       title: Sit with ME
        date: 2019
       words: 290
      flesch: 74
     summary: so I say it again Darkness, comes with Depression I See You look at the seat next to me Choose the one next to me Our eyes meet “Hello” Do I scare you?
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      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: These Rivers Run
        date: 2019
       words: 156
      flesch: 82
     summary: - 15 - These Rivers Run Tanner Léon I am the veins of this world ‘Y’ and ‘V’ painted across your map my joints are foamy hiccups where the fluid falls in grace hopping the skips and dips of the landscape I am a true border— gravity the only king yanking the reins decreeing me forward to slip through the moonlight sonata of the moon’s fingers— wispy spindles trying to tickle me away from fate’s wading pool. There used to be shrines you don’t hear my pain
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      author: Warner, Joseph
       title: Punk Rock Sestina
        date: 2019
       words: 302
      flesch: 90
     summary: - 42 - Punk Rock Sestina Joseph Warner A group of people come close enough to fall off the stage they’re paid to play on. A mass of people sprinting towards one another at full speed falling down, picking themselves up and heading right back into it.
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          id: genesis-23087
      author: Northcutt, Moriah
       title: Mama Never Cried
        date: 2019
       words: 290
      flesch: 97
     summary: Then Mama began to sit around for days on end In her pj's with the messy hair. And Mama never let manners slide.
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      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: Our Time
        date: 2019
       words: 702
      flesch: 81
     summary: So it’s no wonder we chant in the streets for more fun and less work. Raised on meat and Republican bias but still cast our first votes for Bernie: hope never died, it was born into us.
    keywords: time; world
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      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: My Name
        date: 2019
       words: 169
      flesch: 74
     summary: Rib cage over treetops, curling lips stretched like electrical wires across mountains over train track seas—I am swimming. Unafraid of softer darknesses speaking in second hand words and dreaming—I am just dreaming.
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      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: Enter Net
        date: 2019
       words: 187
      flesch: 56
     summary: The internet has perused every file of your being “it’s seen those search results” has sent them in pretty prissy letters to multiple organizations so they may bullseye target your back with selected sock ads: the NSA giggles at them over a cup of coffee in the morning. It saunters through the adult section of a back-alley bookstore looking for raunchy images clad in a dark leather jacket— the web it spins is not one of lies, but a very sticky predicament that stencils in the creases of a mother’s disapproving face.
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          id: genesis-23092
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Dove
        date: 2019
       words: 125
      flesch: 97
     summary: - 23 - Dove Mario Stone Seeking solace in the thrill of shadowed skin, I culled warmth from eager necks, the ruder prey. But your lips, your song, with soft arrest you held me close.
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      author: Ryder, Dustin
       title: Holy Grounds
        date: 2019
       words: 323
      flesch: 86
     summary: I’m corrupting Holy grounds, spilling sins like wine. There’s a smashing of lips, copper and tiger lilies mixing.
    keywords: skin
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      author: Kinder, Nick
       title: crocodile
        date: 2019
       words: 57
      flesch: 48
     summary: - 8 - crocodile Nick Kinder with a cry the world shot itself in the heart and the bullet flew through classrooms and theaters and ghettos and concerts and churches and daughters and sons and uncles and aunties and mothers and fathers and the crocodile choked on his tears and said, “i wish there was something we could do.”
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      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: Adam's Delight
        date: 2019
       words: 110
      flesch: 79
     summary: I scrub you clean before I feast I could churn you into butter bathe your body in caramel— kiss your colors & caress your curves split you open on the table— eager fingers on your Fuji oh great gift your Grannysmith— horndoggin’ for Honeycrisp.
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          id: genesis-23096
      author: Chopra, Natasha
       title: DOES GRIEVING EVER END OR DO ITS INSTANCES JUST GROW FURTHER AND FURTHER APART
        date: 2019
       words: 277
      flesch: 34
     summary: i did not realize that choosing this dupatta led to such a strict cleaning regiment, did not realize i had to ration out my laundry, dirty it only so much before it started fading, slipping through my royal blue nails, the weight of commitment rests heavily on my lungs; i wonder if dadi ever cringed when i called her sarees dupattas or the other way around, but the more i think about her, the more she fractures, the more she fades, i didn’t realize i had to ration out my grief, didn’t realize i had such a strict schedule to mourn her, i wonder if she’s even there at all or if she washed out over time, becoming only a ghost i wish i could be haunted by. - 62 - DOES GRIEVING EVER END OR DO ITS INSTANCES JUST GROW FURTHER AND FURTHER APART Natasha Chopra the indigo dye of my new dupatta rubs off on my fingertips, turning the white strips of my nails a faded royal blue; i wonder if dadi ever wore this color, wonder if her hands ever looked like mine, wonder if she knew the last time we spoke would be the last time we spoke; i remember in college, i learned that every time you think of a memory, you only think of the last time you remembered it, you remember only its ghost.
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          id: genesis-23097
      author: Chopra, Natasha
       title: An Ode to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Racist
        date: 2019
       words: 423
      flesch: 45
     summary: Shashi Tharoor You orator, you historian and scholar, you Owner of honorary Air Force wings, you Not surprising chancellor of a PWI, you Nobel prize winner in literature, you Knight of the Garter, sir, you Prime Minister of England, you Prime Minister of Colonization, you Defender of Avoidable Famine, they Called you king of defending Exalted human values, do they See the irony in the white Of the paper they write that on, they Hired Mr. Oldman to play you oh I’m sorry, I think I meant the winners rewrite history, they Created an entire Wikipedia page Just for your lengthy list of honors, but they Didn’t make one for your racism, I Find that interesting that I Didn’t learn about your racism until I Saw the sadness in my father’s eyes, did you Know that he inherited that glossiness, that distance From his parents – his parents that were born under A Union Jack, the amalgamation of imagery Representing other colonizers, Colored white from the skin of the supremacists, Colored blue from the droplets of the Indian Ocean, Colored red from the blood of my family.
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      author: Thamba, Aish
       title: babe
        date: 2019
       words: 273
      flesch: 91
     summary: - 17 - babe Aish Thamba i called you babe, accidentally, of course... perhaps it was a slip of the tongue just as much as your fingers slip between mine or perhaps your shoulder: a steady warmth against the light of day.
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        item: #112 of 662
          id: genesis-23099
      author: Christoff, Claire
       title: Superstar
        date: 2019
       words: 997
      flesch: 89
     summary: Karen Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950. Todd Haynes directed, wrote, and co-produced Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story in 1987, while he was still a film student at Bard.
    keywords: baby; karen; superstar
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          id: genesis-23100
      author: Baker, Krista
       title: You're Going to be a Ballerina
        date: 2019
       words: 84
      flesch: 88
     summary: You’re Going to be a Ballerina Krista Baker Her body was cold, bitter like the winter wind, or the bile she could always taste. She looked into the mirror every day waiting for a swan to stare back.
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      author: Turmail, Sarah
       title: Lucy, I'm Home
        date: 2019
       words: 138
      flesch: 84
     summary: He is Babylon, collapsed after a seven lapped walk, and if I fold enough socks, that I ever loved whiskey breath and bad teeth. genesisSpring2016.pdf 4 genesis spring 2016 Lucy, I’m Home Sarah Turmail Pal, I need to weep.
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      author: Smith, Rachel
       title: The Song of a Sparrow Trapped in a Supermarket
        date: 2019
       words: 185
      flesch: 72
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 6 genesis fall 2016 Amidst the melody of beeping registers and the harmony of whirring carts, I stand at a table of graphic tees in the men’s department, folding a shirt depicting a cat on the moon, dressed as an astronaut, stop to look at Ball State hoodies. The boy, bored with clothes not meant for him, zips between the racks, unaware of smears of bird droppings left on the metal frames like notes on sheet music, to the song of supply and demand.
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      author: Leonard, Rachel
       title: For the Freckle in Her Eye
        date: 2019
       words: 223
      flesch: 90
     summary: I hadn’t seen your face so soaked since the night that yellow house turned singing that Postal Service song: I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles (Although we have never kissed except for one Halloween, and what could be real between a mere mermaid and an elf queen?) For the Freckle in Her Eye Rachel Leonard genesis fall 2016 9 wrapped gifts you got that year. genesisFall2016.pdf 8 genesis fall 2016 You said, When I’m dead, do my hair like Madonna.
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      author: Leonard, Rachel
       title: Like Clay and Shale
        date: 2019
       words: 70
      flesch: 86
     summary: Morning was rich with the scent of Parliaments and the gasps of matches scraping brick. Like Clay and Shale Rachel Leonard
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      author: Englert, Kyle Matthew
       title: Adam and Eve
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 46
     summary: genesisFall2016.pdf 10 genesis fall 2016 Photograph Adam and Eve Kyle Matthew Englert
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      author: Rikkers, Christina Marie
       title: My Daughter, This World Will Not Consume You
        date: 2019
       words: 29
      flesch: 63
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 36 genesis spring 2017 My Daughter, This World Will Not Consume You but they hold you here now, like a bear mad with rage, •
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      author: Turk, Katrina
       title: Dissolve
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 39
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 35 Dissolve Cover Art
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      author: Bennett, Blake
       title: Do Not Resuscitate
        date: 2019
       words: 15
      flesch: 39
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 34 genesis spring 2017 Do Not Resuscitate •Best of Poetry
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      author: Rea-Hedrick, Eden
       title: Passing
        date: 2019
       words: 92
      flesch: 74
     summary: Passing genesis spring 2017 27 Eden Rea-Hedrick 28 genesis spring 2017 Passing genesis spring 2017 29 Eden Rea-Hedrick 30 genesis spring 2017 Passing genesis spring 2017 31 Eden
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      author: Petrunich, Sydney
       title: Neptunian Tides
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 30
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 21 Sydney Petrunich Neptunian Tides
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      author: St-Victor, Jeanyce
       title: History: Boone County
        date: 2019
       words: 80
      flesch: 83
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 22 genesis spring 2017 History: Boone County Stay quiet…pretend you are still asleep. 8% of adolescents, aged 12-17, abused pain relievers in the year 2009- 2010. RUN! 66% of rape victims know their assailant.
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      author: Ridgway, TL
       title: Enchained
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 39
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 23 Enchained TL Ridgway
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      author: Rikkers, Christina Marie
       title: Monet Paints Nympheas at 79
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 20 genesis spring 2017 Monet Paints Nympheas at 79 •
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      author: Wright, Emily
       title: Life Studies
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 47
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 19 Life Studies Emily Wright Painting
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      author: Stille, Joelle
       title: Lamassu
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 18 genesis spring 2017 Lamassu Joelle Stille •
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      author: Bennett, Blake
       title: Restaurant of the Mind
        date: 2019
       words: 26
      flesch: 50
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 16 genesis spring 2017 Restaurant of the Mind Faulkner, Joyce, Vonnegut, • genesis spring 2017 17 In the daylight I look down
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      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Two Paths Diverge
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 47
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 15 Two Paths Diverge Lifan Fan
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      author: Niepokoj, Caroline
       title: The Wooden Girl
        date: 2019
       words: 58
      flesch: 59
     summary: Caroline Niepokoj 10 genesis spring 2017 The Wooden Girl genesis spring 2017 11 Caroline Niepokoj 12 genesis spring 2017 The Wooden Girl genesis spring 2017 13 1996 Caroline Niepokoj genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 7 The Wooden Girl • 8 genesis spring 2017 The Wooden Girl genesis spring 2017 9 want me to leave my home.
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      author: Canada, Taylor
       title: Porcupine
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 27
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 6 genesis spring 2017 Porcupine
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      author: Smith-Howard, Victoria
       title: Loc'd
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 49
     summary: genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 14 genesis spring 2017 Loc’d Queen •
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      author: Harkins, Ronan
       title: Dwarf Planet
        date: 2019
       words: 101
      flesch: 67
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Dwarf Planet Ronan Harkins You only saw me as a vagabond among the stars I made like Icarus toward any sign of hope I’d drown with you in Neptune’s waters We’ll swing amongst the debris of asteroids and tilt their orbit We can honeymoon on Venus They are the only two planets in your solar system without a moon I long for the day that you’ll reach out with burning hands To have never touched the ones you love
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      author: Cole, Corey
       title: Standardized
        date: 2019
       words: 105
      flesch: 65
     summary: What is education? a. of countless forgotten volumes, but the vulnerable gray of 56 million youth given few alternatives. b. Operation of gridded assembly line classrooms completing black and white and earn graduation pink slips.
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      author: Higgs, Harrison
       title: Octo
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 29
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Octo Harrison Higgs Photography
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      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Paper Lanterns
        date: 2019
       words: 187
      flesch: 83
     summary: the ghosts of the undead write themselves into the strangest Kate Marquam places, and when I say undead Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Paper Lanterns Kate Marquam the ghosts of the undead write themselves into the strangest places.
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      author: Stump, Connor
       title: Flower
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 37
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Flower Connor Stump Digital Painting
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      author: Stone, Mario
       title: My home is home to many
        date: 2019
       words: 183
      flesch: 85
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf My home is home to many Mario Stone written @ Saint Matthew’s House, homeless shelter in Collier County, Florida Here time is sharp, cuts lights out at ten as the lingering chatter dies down like gossip found out. Jealous, the bites on my arms scream to the bites on my calves and the bites on my ankles, tearing skin add to the din, cough itch scratch itch itch cough itch scratch.
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      author: Stringer, Lynzi
       title: The Trumpeter
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 37
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf The Trumpeter Lynzi Stringer Photography
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      author: Soderling, Trenna
       title: Visiting Hours
        date: 2019
       words: 1217
      flesch: 83
     summary: I glanced over the pages, scanning for places to put my shaky initials. Not like what you see in those prison TV shows, the ones nonviolent criminals clumped together to wait out their sentences. in, wanting to hide more of my feet, but I found the chair wouldn’t move, stuck in place not only by bolts but by years of rust cementing it everyone around me, unsure of what to do now that I was stripped of my possessions.
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      author: Williams, Paul
       title: Vulnerable
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 35
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Vulnerable (from the Society Collection) Paul Williams Raku-Fired Clay
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      author: Wilkins, Olivia
       title: Bloom
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 66
     summary: Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Bloom Olivia Wilkins Chalk Pastel
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      author: Rowley, Piper
       title: Birth Giver
        date: 2019
       words: 154
      flesch: 71
     summary: Best of Poetry Piper Rowley carried by pink soles, cracked and calloused. hard drinking, childhood trauma, adult mistakes gray.
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      author: Kinder, Nick
       title: Gen.
        date: 2019
       words: 127
      flesch: 62
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Gen. Nick Kinder We, the generation that sheds others we deem to be “dead weight,” We, the generation We, the generation with chains on our ankles and the world on our backs, as our parents live stream our missteps to their Facebook groups. We, the generation one younger and one with more regrets, and both grinned, and both knew this was a lie.
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      author: Williams, Paul
       title: The Observer
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 29
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf The Observer Paul Williams Wearable Sculpture Best of Art & Comic
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      author: Moore, Taylor
       title: All Peanut Butter
        date: 2019
       words: 876
      flesch: 97
     summary: Miss K brings us out more peanut to braid it back for me. “No, Miss K, my mom will not be happy to pay that money.” All Peanut Butter My response did not seem to be wanted.
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      author: Holmes, Brooke
       title: oh, Shenandoah
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 19
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf oh, Shenandoah Brooke Holmes Photography
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      author: Boehman, Ashton
       title: Too Big
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 37
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Too Big Ashton Boehman Lithograph
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      author: Carnes, M. E.
       title: Endless
        date: 2019
       words: 100
      flesch: 87
     summary: Men do hard labor, women always in labor. hands left pruned from soapy water.
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      author: Petrunich, Sydney
       title: Vintage Ink
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 19
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Vintage Ink Sydney Petrunich Alcohol Ink
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      author: Akre, Gabriel
       title: Venetian Street with Gondola
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 37
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Venetian Street with Gondola Gabriel Akre Oil on Canvas
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        item: #153 of 662
          id: genesis-23142
      author: Dietz II, Cleveland
       title: What Could Have Been
        date: 2019
       words: 1821
      flesch: 75
     summary: Journal of Molecular Psychiatry U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2016 November, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, vol. 3, no. 13, 2015. Journal of Molecular Psychiatry U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2016 November, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10 Ibid.
    keywords: health; medicine; national; u.s
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      author: Bondar, Iryna
       title: Myself and The Irrational Fear (of Insects), 2017
        date: 2019
       words: 17
      flesch: 40
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Myself and The Irrational Fear (of Insects), 2017 Iryna Bondar Black Colored Pencil
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      author: Shanton, Elijah
       title: Stressed
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 29
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Stressed Elijah Shanton Charcoal
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      author: Kinder, Nick
       title: Tired
        date: 2019
       words: 123
      flesch: 80
     summary: Maybe it just won’t come back to me I’m just tired, is all Can’t forgive anymore Forgot to eat again Haven’t talked in months Forgetting faces of them I’m just tired, is all My alarm broke the emptiness I feel the need to write Why am I not asleep? genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Tired Nick Kinder
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      author: White, Anna
       title: The Death of Great Aunt June
        date: 2019
       words: 424
      flesch: 94
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf The Death of Great Aunt June Anna White Mark sat with his hands hanging between his knees, his back slumped. Mark shifted his weight.
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      author: Mendoza, Abby
       title: Wild
        date: 2019
       words: 12
      flesch: 39
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Wild Abby Mendoza Oil on Canvas Cover Art
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      author: Wallace, Dane
       title: Campus of Colors
        date: 2019
       words: 13
      flesch: 37
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Campus of Colors Dane Wallace Mixed Media on Paper
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      author: Lee, Nancy
       title: Sharp Season
        date: 2019
       words: 156
      flesch: 80
     summary: His rough magic curated the work of ample artists through thickets of gallery walls and career pitfalls. genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Sharp Season Nancy Lee He escaped his clan and insisted on a new name.
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      author: Parker, Emily
       title: Flight
        date: 2019
       words: 11
      flesch: 49
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Flight Emily Parker Plaster and Limestone Base
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      author: Boehmer, Serena
       title: Bubble in a Dream
        date: 2019
       words: 14
      flesch: 53
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Bubble in a Dream Serena Boehmer Colored Pencil and Gouache
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      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: Stand Like the Bull
        date: 2019
       words: 289
      flesch: 78
     summary: exhumed into the lap pool, you could see the apparition Tanner Léon of energy streaked through like squirts of Mio in your bottle, dragon claw marks left behind. at his royal departure from the water, his kingdom, as though Neptune rose again. His hair is all tucked up into a swim cap, a ball of fury and warping potential energy.
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      author: Parker, Emily
       title: Birch Bear
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Birch Bear Emily Parker Birch Plywood
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      author: Koenn, Jayce
       title: Seven Ways to Come Out
        date: 2019
       words: 406
      flesch: 93
     summary: Solution #4: Get a cake that comes out for you—with a lot of rainbows— in their favorite flavor. Follow the second part of Solution #1 if this fails.
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      author: Hall, Ashton
       title: How to Get Rid of a Hickey
        date: 2019
       words: 1489
      flesch: 93
     summary: You glance in the side mirror as she drives you to Steak ‘n Shake and see the necklace of hickeys she left behind. She laughs and says, “Only get hickeys below the shirt.”
    keywords: hickey; phone; text
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      author: None
       title: genesis-23156
        date: None
       words: 3027
      flesch: 89
     summary: It was all in an effort to ensure we’d be providing them with a normal, healthy baby for a well-paying set of adoptive parents. I just needed more time.
    keywords: baby; home; parents; time
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      author: Fisher, Megan
       title: Undertones
        date: 2019
       words: 6
      flesch: 45
     summary: Undertones Megan Fisher Digital Art - 40 -
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      author: Marley, Ethan
       title: Back on the Horse
        date: 2019
       words: 2587
      flesch: 92
     summary: John jabbed his fork full of spiraled spaghetti at Eric. Eric stared into his cup, watching the last sip of almond-colored Folgers sway from side to side as he rolled the cup in his hand, thinking about his “single life” that he had built for himself, that John was trying so desperately to get him away from.
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          id: genesis-23159
      author: Stump, Connor
       title: Untitled
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: Untitled Connor Stump Charcoal and Ink on Raw Canvas - 29 -
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      author: Hegge, Claire
       title: Yeah, Toast
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: Yeah, Toast Claire Hegge Photo Typology - 36 -
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      author: Coy, Chloe
       title: Watch Yourself Smile
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 82
     summary: None
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      author: Barnes, Samantha
       title: The Truth Behind Trophy Hunting
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: The Truth Behind Trophy Hunting Samantha Barnes Chalk Pastel - 14 -
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      author: Englert, Kyle
       title: Transcendental
        date: 2019
       words: 5
      flesch: 15
     summary: Transcendental Kyle Englert Photography - 69 -
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          id: genesis-23164
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: Submerged
        date: 2019
       words: 6
      flesch: 73
     summary: Submerged Chanya Ruby Soft Pastel - 63 -
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        item: #176 of 662
          id: genesis-23165
      author: Hegge, Claire
       title: Street Night
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: Street Night Claire Hegge Long Exposure Photography - 52 -
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        item: #177 of 662
          id: genesis-23166
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: She Sees All
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 69
     summary: She Sees All Chanya Ruby Soft Pastels and Watercolor - 39 -
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        item: #178 of 662
          id: genesis-23167
      author: Chitwood, Megan
       title: Shredded
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: Shredded Megan Chitwood Charcoal and Ink - 19 -
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        item: #179 of 662
          id: genesis-23168
      author: Reed, Cameron
       title: Second Semester College Student
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: Second Semester College Student Cameron Reed Ink Wash - 43 -
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        item: #180 of 662
          id: genesis-23169
      author: Nower, Shelby
       title: Smiley Face
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 61
     summary: Smiley Face Shelby Nower Acrylic on Canvas - 44 -
    keywords: smiley
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        item: #181 of 662
          id: genesis-23170
      author: Carrico, Zach
       title: pansies
        date: 2019
       words: 5
      flesch: 49
     summary: pansies Zach Carrico Photography - 6 -
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        item: #182 of 662
          id: genesis-23171
      author: Sheikh, Alina
       title: float
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 95
     summary: - 35 - float Alina Sheikh Clip Studio, Paint, Adobe Photoshop - 35 -
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        item: #183 of 662
          id: genesis-23172
      author: Hegge, Claire
       title: Light Bulb Moment
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: Light Bulb Moment Claire Hegge Photography - 58 -
    keywords: bulb
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        item: #184 of 662
          id: genesis-23173
      author: Wolfe, Molly
       title: Girl Made from Paper
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 95
     summary: Girl Made from Paper Molly Wolfe Hand Cut Paper - 9 -
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        item: #185 of 662
          id: genesis-23174
      author: Kenney, Chelsea
       title: Nightlight
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: Nightlight Chelsea Kenney Oil on Canvas - 16 -
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        item: #186 of 662
          id: genesis-23175
      author: Reed, Cameron
       title: Mansion LaLaurie
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: Mansion LaLaurie Cameron Reed Ink and Watercolor - 13 -
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        item: #187 of 662
          id: genesis-23176
      author: Wolfe, Molly
       title: Discovery Magenta
        date: 2019
       words: 9
      flesch: 47
     summary: Discovery Magenta Molly Wolfe Acrylic on Illustration Board - 27 -
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        item: #188 of 662
          id: genesis-23177
      author: Nower, Shelby
       title: Celia Psychedelia
        date: 2019
       words: 6
      flesch: 59
     summary: Celia Psychedelia Shelby Nower Mural - 55 -
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        item: #189 of 662
          id: genesis-23178
      author: Carrico, Zach
       title: delicate
        date: 2019
       words: 5
      flesch: 32
     summary: delicate Zach Carrico Photography - 70 -
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        item: #190 of 662
          id: genesis-23179
      author: Knierman, Rachel
       title: Alternate World
        date: 2019
       words: 8
      flesch: 40
     summary: Alternate World Rachel Knierman Acrylic on Canvas - 24 -
    keywords: world
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        item: #191 of 662
          id: genesis-23180
      author: Kravig, Courtney
       title: Be Born, Transform
        date: 2019
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: Be Born, Transform Courtney Kravig Lithograph - 56 - Best of Art
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        item: #192 of 662
          id: genesis-23181
      author: Pearson, Lacy
       title: Catalyst
        date: 2019
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: Catalyst Lacy Pearson Ink on Clayboard - 64 -
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        item: #193 of 662
          id: genesis-23998
      author: Alcala, Joseph; Kalt, Jordan; Soderling, Trenna
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2020
       words: 214
      flesch: 62
     summary: Several pieces included in this issue such as The Return, A Hunger Artist, Under My Wing, and “Calavera...Calavera…” see artists pulling inspiration from well-known pieces of art to provide unique contexts for their own realities. Fostering artistic community is a role genesis has filled for nearly fifty years, sharing student work and hosting events that bring artists, readers, and editors together in their love of art.
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        item: #194 of 662
          id: genesis-24000
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: (W)hole in My Head
        date: 2020
       words: 3520
      flesch: 85
     summary: After months of trying to control Phineas’s erratic behavior, Dr. Harlow places a gun to Phineas’s head in a moment of desperation. It cuts to Phineas and Dr. Harlow standing outside, and Phineas explaining to Dr. Harlow how to hold the gun, how to shoot straight.
    keywords: accident; father; head; people; phineas
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        item: #195 of 662
          id: genesis-24001
      author: Adam, Olivia
       title: Rough Edge
        date: 2020
       words: 9
      flesch: 98
     summary: - 17 - Rough Edge Olivia Adam Photography, 2.5. x 19
    keywords: edge
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        item: #196 of 662
          id: genesis-24002
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: The Return
        date: 2020
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: - 18 - The Return Sara Lansdell Graphite on paper
    keywords: paper
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        item: #197 of 662
          id: genesis-24003
      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: A Hunger Artist
        date: 2020
       words: 13
      flesch: 69
     summary: - 19 - A Hunger Artist Ayla Walter Charcoal pencil on paper, 11 x 18
    keywords: hunger
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        item: #198 of 662
          id: genesis-24005
      author: White, Michaela
       title: balance.
        date: 2020
       words: 391
      flesch: 103
     summary: Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap. Paint.
    keywords: tap
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        item: #199 of 662
          id: genesis-24006
      author: Bryson-Price, Hannah
       title: To Love Oneself. To Cope.
        date: 2020
       words: 207
      flesch: 96
     summary: I’ve just taken a shower— power-washed my pores, silkened my skin with sugar scrub— I’m clean. Instead, it pulls my pupils to thighs that touch, a stomach that hangs, paper hair, and a troll nose.
    keywords: self
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        item: #200 of 662
          id: genesis-24007
      author: Lemke, Emily
       title: Consecrated Restraint
        date: 2020
       words: 16
      flesch: 47
     summary: - 22 - Consecrated Restraint Emily Lemke Colored pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencil, gold leaf, 12 x 20
    keywords: watercolor
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        item: #201 of 662
          id: genesis-24008
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Apology: masculinity: Best of
        date: 2020
       words: 185
      flesch: 86
     summary: - 23 - Consecrated Restraint Emily Lemke Colored pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencil, gold leaf, 12 x 20 it hits my giggle with a shovel & churns the sound into mud & gravel. it cracks my tear ducts like beer bottles, lets them drip onto the floor.
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        item: #202 of 662
          id: genesis-24009
      author: Akre, Gabriel
       title: A Far-off Country
        date: 2020
       words: 13
      flesch: 83
     summary: - 24 - A Far-off Country Gabriel Akre Oil on canvas, 48 x 42
    keywords: oil
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        item: #203 of 662
          id: genesis-24010
      author: Coffman-Mackey, Elizabeth
       title: Insomniatic
        date: 2020
       words: 3648
      flesch: 93
     summary: They say some teenagers from Ishpeming - 29 - Elizabeth Coffman-Mackey went in there last year, and one of them went missing the next week.” “I didn’t hear that,” Meagan said. “The kids at youth group say it’s haunted, and no one’s been in there for years.
    keywords: dad; house; insomniatic; mom; year; zach
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        item: #204 of 662
          id: genesis-24011
      author: Webb, Gillian
       title: Under My Wing
        date: 2020
       words: 15
      flesch: 84
     summary: - 37 - Under My Wing Gillian Webb Colored pencil on toned grey paper, 7 x 7
    keywords: paper
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        item: #205 of 662
          id: genesis-24012
      author: Lemke, Emily
       title: The Final Blow
        date: 2020
       words: 13
      flesch: 89
     summary: - 38 - The Final Blow Emily Lemke India Ink, Adobe Photoshop, 11 x 14
    keywords: blow
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        item: #206 of 662
          id: genesis-24013
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: Swinging, Leaping, Landing
        date: 2020
       words: 11
      flesch: 72
     summary: - 39 - Swinging, Leaping, Landing Sara Lansdell Charcoal pencil, 14 x 17
    keywords: swinging
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        item: #207 of 662
          id: genesis-24016
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: Fantast-ish
        date: 2020
       words: 6
      flesch: 73
     summary: - 42 - Fantast-ish Sara Lansdell Photoshop
    keywords: photoshop
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        item: #208 of 662
          id: genesis-24017
      author: Walter, Alya
       title: The Quantum Mechanist
        date: 2020
       words: 466
      flesch: 82
     summary: The quantum mechanist swans into campus bar ten minutes till last call, and orders straight tequila from a Klein bottle. The quantum mechanist sails on un-lauded coattails, and never forgets a figure.
    keywords: mechanist; quantum
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        item: #209 of 662
          id: genesis-24020
      author: Weeks, Anna
       title: Slow as snails
        date: 2020
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: - 46 - Slow as snails Anna Weeks Digital (Procreate), 8.5 x 11
    keywords: procreate
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        item: #210 of 662
          id: genesis-24021
      author: Welter, Lauren
       title: Vagary
        date: 2020
       words: 2430
      flesch: 89
     summary: - 47 - Vagary Lauren Welter From her desk close to the window, Emili could see the edge of the world. She had been teaching geography for twenty minutes now, but Emili’s mind had drifted.
    keywords: edge; emili; planet; stars
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        item: #211 of 662
          id: genesis-24022
      author: Wilhelm, Meghan
       title: A Forest God
        date: 2020
       words: 11
      flesch: 95
     summary: - 55 - A Forest God Meghan Wilhelm Woodcut print, 24 x 18
    keywords: forest
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        item: #212 of 662
          id: genesis-24023
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Calavera... Calavera...
        date: 2020
       words: 313
      flesch: 95
     summary: Bite it, swallow it and survive, Come out the far black tunnel of el Día de Muerte, And be glad, ah so glad you are… alive!” - Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree i. I’ll ride the wind like a bicycle over rocks, through ravines until I find you. iii. Shimmering, like swimming up from the bottom of someplace dark, I see you.
    keywords: calavera
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        item: #213 of 662
          id: genesis-24024
      author: Couch, Shannon
       title: As Robins Do
        date: 2020
       words: 228
      flesch: 87
     summary: A home at the foot of mountain majesty, and now I'm lost in a hue that holds me tighter than the tug of Jupiter. As Robins Do Shannon Couch I found you, in the violet heart of summer, rust and scoria.
    keywords: home
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        item: #214 of 662
          id: genesis-24025
      author: Nye, Sara
       title: Girdled Roots
        date: 2020
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: - 60 - Girdled Roots Sara Nye Prismacolor colored pencil, 14 x 17
    keywords: roots
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        item: #215 of 662
          id: genesis-24028
      author: Akre, Gabriel
       title: How Beautiful it is that We Exist
        date: 2020
       words: 16
      flesch: 74
     summary: - 62 - How Beautiful it is that We Exist Gabriel Akre Oil on canvas, 18 x 24
    keywords: oil
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        item: #216 of 662
          id: genesis-24029
      author: Mendoza, Abigail
       title: Solace
        date: 2020
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: - 63 - Solace Abigail Mendoza Oil on canvas, 24 by 36
    keywords: solace
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        item: #217 of 662
          id: genesis-24030
      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: Cicada Summer
        date: 2020
       words: 273
      flesch: 85
     summary: A friend once told me I could probably eat poison ivy without issue. - 64 - Cicada Summers Ayla Walter One of my superpowers is that I am completely unafraid of bees; buzzing right up to my neck cause I’m wearing a flower print shirt or dripping some half-melted strawberry slushy all over my hands.
    keywords: hands
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        item: #218 of 662
          id: genesis-24031
      author: Koch, Briesa
       title: A Boy
        date: 2020
       words: 3010
      flesch: 86
     summary: That Charlotte seduced Bastian and was living off what he could provide for her. None of us ever really saw them save for when Bastian left for work or we brought our kids over to their house for Charlotte to babysit.
    keywords: bastian; charlotte; daughter; neighborhood; niros
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        item: #219 of 662
          id: genesis-24032
      author: McIntire, Trent
       title: Bloom
        date: 2020
       words: 83
      flesch: 20
     summary: - 61 - Bloom Trent McIntire Leaves and petals bloom, hidden in the crack of a burning desert, outstretched on the peak of a broken mountain, digging between boulders and a ravine wall, choking on a 5th story balcony, where no other seed would dare fall, but where the soil is rich and black, and invites intrusions, where worms burrow, bees float beside birds who sing and saturate the air with life, the beauty of a single blossom drowns in a sea of its kin.
    keywords: bloom
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        item: #220 of 662
          id: genesis-25295
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: 13 (best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 10
      flesch: 95
     summary: - 46 - 13 Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 20 x 24
    keywords: ruby
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        item: #221 of 662
          id: genesis-25296
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: The 4th Precept
        date: 2021
       words: 12
      flesch: 88
     summary: - 47 - The 4th Precept Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 45 x 60
    keywords: precept
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        item: #222 of 662
          id: genesis-25297
      author: Harden, Amelia
       title: Afternoon in the Greenhouse
        date: 2021
       words: 12
      flesch: 60
     summary: - 34 - Afternoon in the Greenhouse Amelia Harden Watercolor painting, 9 x 14
    keywords: afternoon
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        item: #223 of 662
          id: genesis-25298
      author: Kinder, Bailey
       title: The Face of Love
        date: 2021
       words: 12
      flesch: 81
     summary: - 29 - The Face of Love Bailey Kinder Prismacolor pencils, 16 x 20
    keywords: face
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        item: #224 of 662
          id: genesis-25299
      author: Greenberg, Chloe
       title: Fingertoes!
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 55
     summary: Chloe Greenberg Digital collage & acrylic paint, 6.5 x 6.5 - 23 - Fingertoes!
    keywords: fingertoes
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        item: #225 of 662
          id: genesis-25300
      author: Campbell, Nadia
       title: ipanema rain
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 41
     summary: - 19 - ipanema rain Nadia Campbell Digital collage & illustration, 22 x 22.693
    keywords: ipanema
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        item: #226 of 662
          id: genesis-25301
      author: Stump, Connor
       title: Never Travelled (back cover art)
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 64
     summary: - 36 - Never Travelled Connor Stump Digitally colored graphite, 14.5 x 20
    keywords: connor
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        item: #227 of 662
          id: genesis-25302
      author: Jacob, Savannah
       title: Party is Over
        date: 2021
       words: 13
      flesch: 56
     summary: - 7 - Party is Over Savannah Jacob Acrylic on illustration board, 15 x 22
    keywords: party
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        item: #228 of 662
          id: genesis-25303
      author: Chadburn, David
       title: ROCK CONCERT
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: - 35 - ROCK CONCERT David Chadburn Oil on canvas, 36 x 24
    keywords: rock
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        item: #229 of 662
          id: genesis-25304
      author: Howson, Emily
       title: Rose Colored Laughter
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: - 49 - Rose Colored Laughter Emily Howson Photography
    keywords: photography
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        item: #230 of 662
          id: genesis-25305
      author: Greenberg, Chloe
       title: Self Portrain
        date: 2021
       words: 12
      flesch: 60
     summary: - 18 -- 18 - Self Portrait Chloe Greenberg Digital collage & acrylic, 10 x 5
    keywords: -18
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        item: #231 of 662
          id: genesis-25306
      author: Stump, Connor
       title: Sorrow the Face of God (front cover art)
        date: 2021
       words: 14
      flesch: 77
     summary: - 27 - Sorrow the Face of God Connor Stump Digitally colored graphite, 18.3 x 28.8
    keywords: sorrow
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        item: #232 of 662
          id: genesis-25308
      author: Breach, Veronica
       title: The Undine
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 87
     summary: - 17 - The Undine Veronica Breach Oil on canvas, 24 x 36
    keywords: undine
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        item: #233 of 662
          id: genesis-25309
      author: Hawkins, Caroline
       title: Grandma and Grandpa
        date: 2021
       words: 12
      flesch: 95
     summary: - 30 - Grandma and Grandpa Caroline Hawkins Oil on canvas, 18 x 24
    keywords: grandma
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        item: #234 of 662
          id: genesis-25310
      author: Childs, Julieanna
       title: La Rosa
        date: 2021
       words: 997
      flesch: 85
     summary: He was honored to support Adriana marrying her high-school sweetheart, just like he and Sofia had been. He thinks back to those years of hard work, building the family’s construction business from nothing.
    keywords: adriana; sofia
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        item: #235 of 662
          id: genesis-25312
      author: Hall, Ashton
       title: Spelunking (best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 3309
      flesch: 99
     summary: I’ll be waiting for you.” - 14 - Spelunking A few muscle fibers in Nomi’s shoulders relaxed. Just Nomi, curled in on herself, as small as she’d looked freshman year.
    keywords: cave; eyes; head; nomi; tears
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        item: #236 of 662
          id: genesis-25314
      author: Moore, Haley
       title: Skater Kids
        date: 2021
       words: 10
      flesch: 69
     summary: - 22 - Skater Kids Haley Moore Digital illustration, 10 x 24
    keywords: kids
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        item: #237 of 662
          id: genesis-25316
      author: Hopf, Abigail
       title: Huntingburg: Summer, 2007
        date: 2021
       words: 315
      flesch: 78
     summary: Those late August afternoons that slipped by like syrup —skin still sun-kissed, kids still laughing in their bus rows because school hadn’t yet sunk into their bones. We’d sit and watch as he tamed the flames, fire tongues lapping the air and softening into ghosts of smoke, turning from roaring beast to pup licking marshmallows golden brown.
    keywords: ghosts
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        item: #238 of 662
          id: genesis-25317
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Shame and Queer Desire: A Storied Reading Lady Audley's Secret (best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 3613
      flesch: 83
     summary: I want college-age Robert and George - 40 - Shame and Queer Desire: A Storied Reading of Lady Audley's Secret laughing in the autumn leaves, Robert pulling George in by the scarf to kiss him on the lips. And yet, there’s something unusually compelling about Robert and George.
    keywords: audley; george; queer; robert
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        item: #239 of 662
          id: genesis-25318
      author: Tuzzio, Laura
       title: Its Mother (best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 116
      flesch: 86
     summary: Vorpal sword gripped by weak fleshy hand. Echoing nightmarish wales.
    keywords: day
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        item: #240 of 662
          id: genesis-25319
      author: Bryson-Price, Hannah
       title: Nomenclature
        date: 2021
       words: 253
      flesch: 88
     summary: I stand on returning flashes of light to storm clouds leaving remnants of energy in my skin called stretch marks. Funny how ears mistake my footsteps for the earth trembling beneath me; for thunder shattering the sky after lightning electrocutes the ground
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        item: #241 of 662
          id: genesis-25320
      author: Elaine, Georgey
       title: Support Group Share, September 2020
        date: 2021
       words: 109
      flesch: 87
     summary: Forever scraping my fingertips over shiny bits of gemstone and silver; jewelry, jewels, and pants. In my dreams my younger siblings help me pack scraps of paper into plastic shopping bags.
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        item: #242 of 662
          id: genesis-25321
      author: Lauderbach, Ron
       title: They're Building a House Next Door
        date: 2021
       words: 160
      flesch: 83
     summary: They're Building a House Next Door Ron Lauderbach Clay tiles on weathered rafters weeks after delivery look weary, like the plumber’s countenance as he carries out a shiny sink, the wrong model, and drops it into his truck-bed. Their boss jabs his finger into the chest of some guy who’s holding a big bucket of paint and I think about Jim Rhoads, the meanest foreman I’ve ever known, who years ago had me in tears before draping his arm around my shoulders and saying, Don’t worry kid, this place may get built in spite of us.
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        item: #243 of 662
          id: genesis-25322
      author: Kriese, Kaylee
       title: Trailer Trash: Track One
        date: 2021
       words: 167
      flesch: 83
     summary: Gravel roads writhing with scraped knees & spinning bicycle tires. Fearless mud pie makers, with perpetually dirty fingernails.
    keywords: mother
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        item: #244 of 662
          id: genesis-25340
      author: Akre, Gabriel
       title: Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
        date: 2021
       words: 12
      flesch: 67
     summary: - 51 - Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Gabriel Akre Oil on Canvas
    keywords: basilica
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        item: #245 of 662
          id: genesis-25341
      author: Ho, Mailinh
       title: Con Cá
        date: 2021
       words: 8
      flesch: 92
     summary: - 18 - Con Cá Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas
    keywords: canvas
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        item: #246 of 662
          id: genesis-25342
      author: Fisher, Megan
       title: Drifting Jellies
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 54
     summary: - 13 - Drifting Jellies Megan Fisher Digital Art
    keywords: art
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        item: #247 of 662
          id: genesis-25343
      author: Spangler, Oliver
       title: Exposure (Best of Art)
        date: 2021
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: - 29 - Exposure Oliver Spangler Photography Best Of Art
    keywords: art
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        item: #248 of 662
          id: genesis-25344
      author: Pierce, Tiffany
       title: Feminine, Like: Bingeworthy, Dreamboard
        date: 2021
       words: 10
      flesch: 61
     summary: - 10 - Feminine, Like: Bingeworthy, Dreamboard Tiffany Pierce Archival Inkjet Print
    keywords: feminine
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        item: #249 of 662
          id: genesis-25348
      author: Williams, Paul
       title: Help
        date: 2021
       words: 6
      flesch: 73
     summary: - 26 - Help Paul Williams 3D Drawing
    keywords: paul
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        item: #250 of 662
          id: genesis-25349
      author: Holmes, Brooke
       title: Isolationism
        date: 2021
       words: 5
      flesch: 32
     summary: - 54 - Isolationism Brooke Holmes Photography
    keywords: photography
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        item: #251 of 662
          id: genesis-25350
      author: Kimbrough, Libby
       title: John 8:7
        date: 2021
       words: 10
      flesch: 103
     summary: - 14 - John 8:7 Libby Kimbrough Spray Paint and Screen Print
    keywords: print
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        item: #252 of 662
          id: genesis-25351
      author: Fukushima, Brittany
       title: Keeper
        date: 2021
       words: 6
      flesch: 31
     summary: - 43 - Keeper Brittany Fukushima Photoplate Lithography
    keywords: lithography
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        item: #253 of 662
          id: genesis-25352
      author: Barnes, Samantha
       title: Midnight Snack
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: - 52 - Midnight Snack Samantha Barnes Chalk Pastel
    keywords: midnight
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        item: #254 of 662
          id: genesis-25353
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: The ParPara
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 70
     summary: - The ParPara Sara Lansdell Photoshop Painting - 30
    keywords: painting
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        item: #255 of 662
          id: genesis-25354
      author: Orr, Alixandra
       title: Power
        date: 2021
       words: 5
      flesch: 83
     summary: - 25 - Power Alixandra Orr Ink
    keywords: ink
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        item: #256 of 662
          id: genesis-25355
      author: Fukushima, Brittany
       title: Pruning
        date: 2021
       words: 6
      flesch: 31
     summary: - 17 - Pruning Brittany Fukushima Photoplate Lithography
    keywords: lithography
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        item: #257 of 662
          id: genesis-25356
      author: Stump, Connor
       title: The Reflection
        date: 2021
       words: 6
      flesch: 59
     summary: - 6 - The Reflection Connor Stump Charcoal
    keywords: charcoal
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        item: #258 of 662
          id: genesis-25357
      author: Caro, Rafael
       title: Reflections of a Painter
        date: 2021
       words: 13
      flesch: 63
     summary: - 47 - Reflections of a Painter Rafael Caro Acrylics and Aerosol Paint on Cloth
    keywords: cloth
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        item: #259 of 662
          id: genesis-25358
      author: Holmes, Brooke
       title: the secret garden
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: - 41 - the secret garden Brooke Holmes Photography
    keywords: photography
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        item: #260 of 662
          id: genesis-25359
      author: Stump, Connor
       title: Self Portrait with Shirt
        date: 2021
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: - 46 - Self Portrait with Shirt Connor Stump Soft Pastel
    keywords: pastel
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        item: #261 of 662
          id: genesis-25360
      author: Baker, Steffany
       title: Suspiria
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: - 9 - Suspiria Steffany Baker Oil on Panel(s)
    keywords: panel(s
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        item: #262 of 662
          id: genesis-25361
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: Technomancer's Hideaway
        date: 2021
       words: 8
      flesch: 40
     summary: - 38 - Technomancer's Hideaway Sara Lansdell Photoshop Painting
    keywords: painting
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        item: #263 of 662
          id: genesis-25362
      author: Sinchai, Annie
       title: Texture and Density
        date: 2021
       words: 7
      flesch: 66
     summary: - 32 - Texture and Density Annie Sinchai Ink
    keywords: ink
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        item: #264 of 662
          id: genesis-25364
      author: Spangler, Oliver
       title: |WATER|
        date: 2021
       words: 5
      flesch: 49
     summary: - 37 - |WATER| Oliver Spangler Lithography
    keywords: lithography
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        item: #265 of 662
          id: genesis-25365
      author: White, Michaela
       title: trauma. (Best of Creative Nonfiction)
        date: 2021
       words: 372
      flesch: 89
     summary: I wanted to stop sleeping with my bedroom door locked, to stop locking my car over and over and over while I was getting gas or walking into the store, into school. Michaela White trauma.
    keywords: day
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        item: #266 of 662
          id: genesis-25366
      author: Stephens, Megan
       title: Lukewarm (Best of Fiction)
        date: 2021
       words: 1932
      flesch: 91
     summary: You’re trying to break away from the sugar and creamer and only drink black coffee — it’s the only way to keep yourself from feeling numb. The kitchen cabinet is filled with a variety of coffee mugs; you take one that has Mount Rushmore printed in gold and, in vibrant colors, says The Black Hills of South Dakota.
    keywords: coffee; hand; night
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        item: #267 of 662
          id: genesis-25367
      author: Carson, Ian
       title: A Case Study on Love
        date: 2021
       words: 249
      flesch: 53
     summary: Further research suggests that our similarities bring us together, and yet every difference I find piques my curiosity and invites me in for further examination. The present study seeks to examine the hypothesis that we are made for each other; a lack of prior research on this topic indicates replication will be required.
    keywords: love
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        item: #268 of 662
          id: genesis-25368
      author: Quezada, Alexa
       title: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, "L'estate"
        date: 2021
       words: 106
      flesch: 77
     summary: Like drums, dogs bark in syncopated rounds; each echo sends their notes a bit offbeat. Cicadas drone viola harmonies; they offer constant counterpoints in flight.
    keywords: street
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        item: #269 of 662
          id: genesis-25369
      author: Christoff, Claire
       title: Elegy for Mama
        date: 2021
       words: 145
      flesch: 94
     summary: Her last night on Earth was spent at a party thrown by Mick Jagger, just before her heart surrendered in a bed familiar with death. - 11 - The Times reported that “Miss Elliot” choked to death on a sandwich.
    keywords: flowers
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        item: #270 of 662
          id: genesis-25374
      author: Warner, Joseph
       title: The Fog Rolls In
        date: 2021
       words: 247
      flesch: 89
     summary: I could hear the mice scurry by as I played land locked marco polo with fog bound friends. These days I’ve left suburbs far behind opting for alleys over cul-de-sacs and ditching the ball caps for a nine to five.
    keywords: fog
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        item: #271 of 662
          id: genesis-25376
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Grendel
        date: 2021
       words: 159
      flesch: 99
     summary: I wrap my neck, my wrists pretty gifts to coax a pulse, a throb, an ache, anything to quell the shouting walls. Every shout snaps at me wolf on bone all fang no tongue no warm relief before the bite.
    keywords: bone
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        item: #272 of 662
          id: genesis-25377
      author: Pretorius, Olivia
       title: Latina Uprooted
        date: 2021
       words: 214
      flesch: 87
     summary: In red states, speaking Spanish is often met with sideways glances, hushed conversations, and uttering “immigrant” like it’s stained. All I could say to her was te amo abuelita, buenas noches.
    keywords: abuelo
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        item: #273 of 662
          id: genesis-25378
      author: Douglas, Macy
       title: R̵o̵a̵d̵k̵i̵l̵l̵ Mother's Day
        date: 2021
       words: 705
      flesch: 90
     summary: Mother's Day I cannot stop it It will happen again Tomorrow, and the next day­ Countless times, on countless roads Sitting there listening to their devastation I have never been smaller. Then I hear it: A small chitter Pop, pop, A greeting Another voice, more hesitant Calls out in the same way A third, Shriller and demanding Macy Douglas Then a silence stretches There is no reply.
    keywords: cat; mother
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        item: #274 of 662
          id: genesis-25379
      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: Monsters
        date: 2021
       words: 160
      flesch: 89
     summary: They cannot grasp words— slipping by like ice cubes covered in grease, right through zombie hands with cookie-crumble fingers. I know you’re hiding more than monsters in your closet.
    keywords: monsters
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        item: #275 of 662
          id: genesis-25380
      author: Christoff, Claire
       title: Note to a Dead Girl
        date: 2021
       words: 84
      flesch: 72
     summary: - 27 - Claire Cristoff You planted the tree in my front yard— sugar or paperbark, it doesn’t matter— with gnarled roots and boughs for squirrels and snowfall. I never knew you, but I picture you now, parting the earth with careful fingers, long hair obscuring your face, soft young breasts already gravid with rot.
    keywords: snowfall
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        item: #276 of 662
          id: genesis-25381
      author: Christoff, Claire
       title: Offal Sick
        date: 2021
       words: 177
      flesch: 81
     summary: In another dream, I pinch the breading from a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken, telling myself I’m being virtuous. I carry a plastic bag of roast beef, pooling in its own fluids, through the grocery aisles of the mind.
    keywords: plate
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        item: #277 of 662
          id: genesis-25382
      author: Hoyt, Gabrielle
       title: Prayers of a Sears Carpet Technician
        date: 2021
       words: 209
      flesch: 85
     summary: They manifest in the shapes of treaded dirt and the deep sticky red of spilt cabernet. In my line of duty I have seen the final resting place of mistaken steps and faltered grips.
    keywords: dad
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        item: #278 of 662
          id: genesis-25383
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Sanctuary
        date: 2021
       words: 93
      flesch: 85
     summary: - 50 - You are warmer than a fat loaf of bread fresh out the oven, a hugging sun with softest palms. Mario Stone Sanctuary
    keywords: mother
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        item: #279 of 662
          id: genesis-25384
      author: Ellison, Lindsey
       title: She Stands Proud with Flowers and Stem Between her Legs
        date: 2021
       words: 217
      flesch: 86
     summary: Blade: tiny, thin, sharp like the Elizabeth Taylor portrait she has hanging in her bathroom staring with sapphire eyes and a pink, half-moon smile. - 7 - Lindsey Ellison Tall with dark hair like ants crawling to the motion of static cable- riding the freeway up and down her limbs, she stands one leg over the tub and is an exterminator with razor.
    keywords: legs
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        item: #280 of 662
          id: genesis-25385
      author: Alberda, Erin
       title: Today I Prayed a Prayer of Gratitude
        date: 2021
       words: 142
      flesch: 88
     summary: Thank you, Lord, for city sidewalks, with gum spots and steaming grates. - 24 - Erin Alberda Gulping deeply, wriggling out of my sweater of pride, the one that I have woven each morning, I opened my lips and called each little beauty around me by its name.
    keywords: erin
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        item: #281 of 662
          id: genesis-25386
      author: Pretorius, Olivia
       title: Walking through Target on a Tuesday Afternoon
        date: 2021
       words: 258
      flesch: 84
     summary: - 28 - Olivia Pretorius Walking Through Target on a Tuesday Afternoon Mothers push red plastic carts containing milk, strawberries, and young screaming children in the grocery loop, yet I can’t find the eggs. Did you know grocery stores are designed to be inconvenient?
    keywords: eggs
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        item: #282 of 662
          id: genesis-25387
      author: Hanquier, Zoe
       title: wandering eyes
        date: 2021
       words: 182
      flesch: 86
     summary: so we chose arcing paths around the parking lot until we get to her car and we finally hold hands.
    keywords: hands
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        item: #283 of 662
          id: genesis-25408
      author: Alcala, Joseph; Kalt, Jordan; Soderling, Trenna
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2021
       words: 231
      flesch: 63
     summary: genesis has seen much transformation this year as well, with a new editorial staff and managing editor team taking over the reigns. All these pieces reflect the thoughtfulness required to contend with contemporary issues and offer a light to help guide us into the new decade.
    keywords: issue
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        item: #284 of 662
          id: genesis-25409
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: Abstraction #1
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: Abstraction #1 Chanya Ruby Oil on Paper, 22 x 30 30
    keywords: abstraction
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        item: #285 of 662
          id: genesis-25410
      author: Ho, Mailinh
       title: Abstract I (Best of, Cover)
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 87
     summary: Abstract I Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20' 10
    keywords: oil
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        item: #286 of 662
          id: genesis-25411
      author: Dennis, Kylie
       title: Ciao bella
        date: 2021
       words: 6
      flesch: 73
     summary: Ciao bella Kylie Dennis Photography 16
    keywords: ciao
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        item: #287 of 662
          id: genesis-25412
      author: Wolfe, Molly
       title: Cottage in the Mountains
        date: 2021
       words: 13
      flesch: 89
     summary: Cottage in the Mountains Molly Wolfe Oil on Paper, 15 x 20 21
    keywords: cottage
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        item: #288 of 662
          id: genesis-25413
      author: Wolfe, Molly
       title: Fruit #4
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 103
     summary: Fruit #4 Molly Wolfe Oil on Panel, 30 x 22 6
    keywords: fruit
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        item: #289 of 662
          id: genesis-25414
      author: Tomeldan, Katrina
       title: Gods of the Light
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 87
     summary: Gods of the Light Katrina Tomeldan Digital, 14 x 24 51
    keywords: gods
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        item: #290 of 662
          id: genesis-25415
      author: Tomeldan, Katrina
       title: Herd of Library Camels
        date: 2021
       words: 15
      flesch: 78
     summary: Herd of Library Camels Katrina Tomeldan Acrylic Paint and Colored Pencil, 15 x 12 39
    keywords: herd
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        item: #291 of 662
          id: genesis-25417
      author: Lee, Nancy
       title: Horton's World
        date: 2021
       words: 14
      flesch: 95
     summary: Horton's World Nancy Lee Vitreous Enamel on Cooper, 6 x 6 ` 33
    keywords: horton
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        item: #292 of 662
          id: genesis-25418
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: On the Full Moon, of the 12th Moon
        date: 2021
       words: 17
      flesch: 95
     summary: On the Full Moon, of the 12th Moon Chanya Ruby Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 29
    keywords: moon
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        item: #293 of 662
          id: genesis-25421
      author: Ho, Mailinh
       title: A River in Panama
        date: 2021
       words: 13
      flesch: 96
     summary: A River in Panama Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas, 15.25 x 21' 43
    keywords: river
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        item: #294 of 662
          id: genesis-25422
      author: Wolfe, Molly
       title: Sedna
        date: 2021
       words: 9
      flesch: 94
     summary: Sedna Molly Wolfe Digital Art, 9 x 17 36
    keywords: sedna
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        item: #295 of 662
          id: genesis-25423
      author: Lee, Nancy
       title: Sisterhood
        date: 2021
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: Sisterhood Nancy Lee Vitreous Enamel on Copper, 5 x 5 15
    keywords: sisterhood
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        item: #296 of 662
          id: genesis-25424
      author: Ho, Mailinh
       title: Sunset on the White River
        date: 2021
       words: 13
      flesch: 96
     summary: A River in Panama Mailinh Ho Oil on Canvas, 15.25 x 21' 43
    keywords: river
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        item: #297 of 662
          id: genesis-25425
      author: Trimpe, Rebecca
       title: Gladiator
        date: 2021
       words: 395
      flesch: 101
     summary: Says he should wait ‘til high school. Defense coach first year: Can’t you hang some more meat on that boy?
    keywords: kid
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        item: #298 of 662
          id: genesis-25426
      author: Spratt, Julia
       title: Marty
        date: 2021
       words: 985
      flesch: 79
     summary: The Focus Last month I married a man who drives a 2013 Ford Focus. I imagine my tiny Chevy Spark, baby blue and smelling like thunderstorms.
    keywords: marty; mother
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        item: #299 of 662
          id: genesis-25427
      author: Wright, Daisy
       title: pinstripe sheets
        date: 2021
       words: 317
      flesch: 93
     summary: 19 pinstripe sheets Daisy Wright I remember striped sheets. I remember striped sheets.
    keywords: sheets
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        item: #300 of 662
          id: genesis-25428
      author: Weiss, Madison
       title: There's a Reason We Eat Latkes (Best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 1223
      flesch: 92
     summary: “Papa, tell me what happened to your mother and father.” I dismissed the feeling for many years.
    keywords: family; father
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        item: #301 of 662
          id: genesis-25429
      author: Schaible, Bryttney
       title: Hers
        date: 2021
       words: 287
      flesch: 86
     summary: Dreams will deflate with the grace of popped party balloons, and possibilities will meet their limits. Tea parties will be cancelled, and all the cakes from here on out will be diet.
    keywords: world
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        item: #302 of 662
          id: genesis-25430
      author: Hunsinger, Zoey
       title: Throw Away Your Prozac (Best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 813
      flesch: 97
     summary: Throw Away Your Prozac Zoey Hunsinger Stay in bed. She also won’t like that you stay in bed all day with your curtains shut.
    keywords: bed; friend
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        item: #303 of 662
          id: genesis-25432
      author: Dile, Evan
       title: The Unkindness of the Raven
        date: 2021
       words: 2999
      flesch: 91
     summary: 22 The Unkindness of the Raven Evan Dile Nevar Windsor approached the coffee shop, stopping just in front of the glass doors. Nevar waved over to him and made eye contact.
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          id: genesis-25433
      author: Weiss, Madison
       title: At the Top of Kingsbury Grade
        date: 2021
       words: 75
      flesch: 61
     summary: 47 At the Top of Kingsbury Grade Madison Weiss The legend goes like this: an anchor dislodged from granite rock turns Arthurian child into mermaid
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          id: genesis-25434
      author: Bryson-Price, Hannah
       title: Cold Hands
        date: 2021
       words: 194
      flesch: 91
     summary: The ring and middle finger folded down to the palm. I was fixed on fluttering fingers.
    keywords: hands
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        item: #306 of 662
          id: genesis-25435
      author: Weiss, Madison
       title: Chicken Paprikash
        date: 2021
       words: 164
      flesch: 86
     summary: 38 Chicken Paprikash Madison Weiss This is my people’s last rite of passage. They didn’t die in German camps for me to not master this recipe.
    keywords: chicken
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        item: #307 of 662
          id: genesis-25436
      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: God Gave Me a Lighter (Best of)
        date: 2021
       words: 255
      flesch: 93
     summary: Punk night at Melody Inn. They crossed my throat into my chest like holy water on a parched man’s lips.
    keywords: night
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        item: #308 of 662
          id: genesis-25438
      author: Couch, Shannon
       title: The Hoosier Dome
        date: 2021
       words: 110
      flesch: 70
     summary: Forever unrepaired, chosen to keep, as the preservation of memory outweighs structural integrity. Bassline pulse-drive and mechanical starry sky – This shroud is a battle cry, power incarnate.
    keywords: sidewalk
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        item: #309 of 662
          id: genesis-25439
      author: Hunsinger, Zoey
       title: Hummingbird Eulogy
        date: 2021
       words: 134
      flesch: 90
     summary: 9 Hummingbird Eulogy Zoey Hunsinger A flower-kisser collapsed on the ground. But I watched him every day from the cheap-seats of university grass.
    keywords: wings
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        item: #310 of 662
          id: genesis-25440
      author: Hunsinger, Zoey
       title: The Impressionist
        date: 2021
       words: 133
      flesch: 77
     summary: His spectacles faltered as he studied the water and ignored the rusted hills of cavalry New Mexico. There wasn’t enough paint on his palette, so he marbled a pigment of his imagination.
    keywords: canvas
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        item: #311 of 662
          id: genesis-25441
      author: Farr, Mason
       title: Joan of Arc
        date: 2021
       words: 88
      flesch: 99
     summary: She calls herself Joan of Arc. She lays with only soldiers, then slays those lonely soldiers.
    keywords: joan
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        item: #312 of 662
          id: genesis-25442
      author: Elaine, Georgey
       title: Let Me Be
        date: 2021
       words: 235
      flesch: 30
     summary: And I do not want to The hint of her veil was enough Smiling next to my father in an old photograph I used to look upon with wonder A dress worn to shackle herself to my father No, let me be your favorite shirt Wrinkled red, with the faded letters Your most worn bra Let me be wrinkled and stained Sent through countless wash cycles Let me be able to come back Let me be soft The fleece blanket draped over you I want to be a poem Something startling An image seared into minds, a pain in your chest Short, with meaning Let me be chai tea Deeply steeped, spiced with cardamom Felt in the throat Whipped cream on your lips A piece of home hot in your hands Let me be as I wish I could; something small but loved Elaine I don’t want to be white shoes Clean sneakers the high school boys are afraid to walk in I don’t want to be a decorative plate Locked behind glass where no one will ever scrape their fork over me Or chip me trying to put me in the cabinet Most of all, I would loathe to be a wedding dress Lacy white gauze worn once and hardly touched Special for a single day Before forgotten I’ve never seen my mother’s wedding dress
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        item: #313 of 662
          id: genesis-25443
      author: Léon, Tanner
       title: An Ode to Hot Sauce
        date: 2021
       words: 231
      flesch: 83
     summary: Léon Feeble bodies fumble on tasteless foods, causing grumpy moods: lost in the black and white world of culinary catastrophe, they search for any ounce of color... A smoldering whip cracks Louisiana Lightning Strike from the sky, 50 sauntering me into a slow sway, coiled with the snake of spice.
    keywords: spice
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        item: #314 of 662
          id: genesis-25444
      author: Farr, Mason
       title: Sacrament
        date: 2021
       words: 116
      flesch: 81
     summary: Sinewy hairs coated your face, since you stopped shaving, Hiding the popped vessels, and lagan eyes trapped in the sunken vessel of you surrounding a mouth with lips wetted by the nectar of the gods. The frail and gruff sacrificial Billy goat, Dying, so the rest of us can live.
    keywords: home
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        item: #315 of 662
          id: genesis-26181
      author: Coy, Chloe
       title: 雪花 的 故事 - SNOW FLOWER’S STORY
        date: 2022
       words: 3010
      flesch: 76
     summary: As people of color, Asians can relate to how other non-White people experience White, American hegemony. Gulliver does this with the Yahoos, and Asian Americans have (and still do) perpetuate social injustice with anti-Black racism.
    keywords: bella; chinese; family; mom; veronica; white
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        item: #316 of 662
          id: genesis-26183
      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: Owl
        date: 2022
       words: 9
      flesch: 56
     summary: 15 Owl Ayla Walter Watercolor painting, 22 x 30
    keywords: ayla
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        item: #317 of 662
          id: genesis-26184
      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: One or Another
        date: 2022
       words: 241
      flesch: 79
     summary: A list of things I am angry about still: the unknown multiplex of moments I’ve forgotten, on purpose or otherwise bug-bites and small things fingernails and tangled hair torn smooth my stomach churning sour milk into butter making acid sweet, turning light cream heavy the speechless gravity of it all. Wet voices, speaking of only sweet sharp things of being smothered of being cut and sliced and threaded through a needle’s eye.
    keywords: things
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        item: #318 of 662
          id: genesis-26185
      author: Bottoms, Serenna
       title: You Greet Opulence at His Throne
        date: 2022
       words: 15
      flesch: 73
     summary: 17 You Greet Opulence at His Throne Serenna Bottoms Procreate, 2550 ppi x 3300 ppi
    keywords: ppi
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        item: #319 of 662
          id: genesis-26187
      author: Price, Caitlin
       title: Fatalist Ramblings
        date: 2022
       words: 415
      flesch: 84
     summary: Now is different than the solitude like mid-days at dive bars. Polyvinyl chloride mimicked curves I’d see in long car ride, car seat daydreams.
    keywords: body; lips
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        item: #320 of 662
          id: genesis-26188
      author: Van Renterghem, Olivia M.
       title: The Bandage Project
        date: 2022
       words: 17
      flesch: 70
     summary: The Bandage Project Olivia M. Van Renterghem Bandages and Acrylic paint on masonite, 12 x 9 20
    keywords: bandage
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        item: #321 of 662
          id: genesis-26189
      author: Schwartz, Emma
       title: Untitled
        date: 2022
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: Untitled Emma Schwartz Nupastel and Charcoal, 18 x 24 21
    keywords: emma
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        item: #322 of 662
          id: genesis-26190
      author: Tuzzio, Laura
       title: One Room
        date: 2022
       words: 364
      flesch: 100
     summary: Kids are hard. One holds out, the second one, she remembers.
    keywords: kids
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        item: #323 of 662
          id: genesis-26191
      author: Hawkins, Caroline
       title: Mom's Wearing Pants!
        date: 2022
       words: 13
      flesch: 89
     summary: Mom's Wearing Pants Caroline Hawkins Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 23
    keywords: mom
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        item: #324 of 662
          id: genesis-26192
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: Kluay Kluay
        date: 2022
       words: 11
      flesch: 95
     summary: 24 Kluay Kluay Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 36 x 48
    keywords: kluay
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        item: #325 of 662
          id: genesis-26193
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: The Amber Planet
        date: 2022
       words: 10
      flesch: 69
     summary: 25 The Amber Planet Sara Lansdell Digital, 3000 x 1500px
    keywords: 1500px
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        item: #326 of 662
          id: genesis-26194
      author: McCollum, Corlan
       title: The Home Front
        date: 2022
       words: 509
      flesch: 82
     summary: Except, perhaps, for faux fur coats, which they had been reunited with, and will be forever because nobody wants pink frills or faux fur. Not all stories are tragic. The chairs and coat split at a garage sale, the coat traveling south to West Baden and the chairs moving to Lebanon.
    keywords: coat
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        item: #327 of 662
          id: genesis-26195
      author: Marie, Shae
       title: A Lady in Layers
        date: 2022
       words: 13
      flesch: 89
     summary: 28 A Lady in Layers Shae Marie Oil on linen, 16 x 20
    keywords: lady
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        item: #328 of 662
          id: genesis-26196
      author: Tuzzio, Laura
       title: Address Unknown
        date: 2022
       words: 559
      flesch: 104
     summary: Address Unknown Laura Tuzzio Della Dear, He says your name. You were there, Della Dear, waiting for him.
    keywords: work
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        item: #329 of 662
          id: genesis-26197
      author: Scott, Katherine 
       title: Fog Like a Veil
        date: 2022
       words: 131
      flesch: 76
     summary: One hand clenches the wheel, the other a procession of coffee cups and sleet presses kisses to her windscreen. While the driver's baby blues contract and contort, attempting to wheedle road dashes through a film of lace cascading over night.
    keywords: fog
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        item: #330 of 662
          id: genesis-26198
      author: Andrea, Michelle
       title: Do you Remember me?
        date: 2022
       words: 14
      flesch: 93
     summary: Michelle Andrea Mixed media on paper, 19 x 24 31
    keywords: remeber
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        item: #331 of 662
          id: genesis-26199
      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: Low Rent Ghost Story
        date: 2022
       words: 708
      flesch: 80
     summary: I don’t believe in ghosts, that should be clear, if I did perhaps I would not invite and love Marcelle into my home as much as I do, and I do. So I don’t believe in ghosts but not so much that I’m interested in hearing about how your second cousin or your best friend’s friend had something totally impossible and spooky happen to them and they saw a ghost with their own eyes just so you can try to prove it to me or expect me to try and disprove it 32 back to you– like most people, I’m not that interested in proof.
    keywords: ghost
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        item: #332 of 662
          id: genesis-26200
      author: Marie, Shae
       title: Holy Hashbrown!
        date: 2022
       words: 9
      flesch: 80
     summary: Shae Marie Digital, 3 x 4.2 34 Holy Hashbrown!
    keywords: hashbrown
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        item: #333 of 662
          id: genesis-26201
      author: Bottoms, Serenna
       title: Cricket
        date: 2022
       words: 10
      flesch: 69
     summary: 35 Cricket Serenna Bottoms Procreate, 2550 ppi x 3049 ppi
    keywords: ppi
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        item: #334 of 662
          id: genesis-26202
      author: Stewart, Ollie
       title: Eli in the Passenger Seat
        date: 2022
       words: 133
      flesch: 94
     summary: And in the space you bend, your will to cold air, I see why some people spend their whole lives On these roads that no one ventures anymore A flare of red against the dusk Raised veins; like yours Eli in the Passenger Seat Ollie Stewart
    keywords: eli
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        item: #335 of 662
          id: genesis-26203
      author: Adam, Olivia
       title: Unexpected Beauty
        date: 2022
       words: 9
      flesch: 66
     summary: 37 Unexpected Beauty Olivia Adam Photography, 25 x 19
    keywords: beauty
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        item: #336 of 662
          id: genesis-26204
      author: Back, Rachel
       title: She Set Herself Aflame
        date: 2022
       words: 146
      flesch: 90
     summary: Put it in her soul where she tended the flame with careful hands, feeding it kindling until it burst from her like hairspray meeting the wicked warmth. Consumed in hot golden flames, were the pillars of hate you poured the foundation for.
    keywords: hell
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        item: #337 of 662
          id: genesis-26205
      author: Ruby, Chanya
       title: Angel Child
        date: 2022
       words: 11
      flesch: 87
     summary: 39 Angel Child Chanya Ruby Oil on canvas, 40 x 50
    keywords: angel
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        item: #338 of 662
          id: genesis-26211
      author: Ho, Mailinh
       title: The Hồ Down
        date: 2022
       words: 12
      flesch: 95
     summary: 40 “The Hồ Down” Mailinh Ho Oil on canvas, 50 x 70
    keywords: oil
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        item: #339 of 662
          id: genesis-26212
      author: Marie, Shae
       title: In a World of My Own
        date: 2022
       words: 14
      flesch: 95
     summary: 41 In a World of My Own Shae Marie Mixed media, 22 x 30
    keywords: world
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        item: #340 of 662
          id: genesis-26213
      author: Hawkins, Caroline
       title: Your Mom's Hair Didn't Look Like That
        date: 2022
       words: 18
      flesch: 94
     summary: Your Mom's Hair Didn't Look Like That Caroline Hawkins Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 42
    keywords: canvas
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        item: #341 of 662
          id: genesis-26214
      author: Back, Rachel
       title: Escaping St. Peters, Indiana
        date: 2022
       words: 199
      flesch: 83
     summary: St. Peters had become my prison, Blue Creek my cell block, and if I remained I would serve a life sentence buried between the two trees, the lovers reaching but never catching the other. Escaping St. Peters, Indiana Rachel Back I buried myself in the cold asphalt street.
    keywords: life
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        item: #342 of 662
          id: genesis-26215
      author: Walter, Ayla
       title: Wild Geese
        date: 2022
       words: 10
      flesch: 61
     summary: 44 Wild Geese Ayla Walter Watercolor painting, 30 x 22
    keywords: ayla
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        item: #343 of 662
          id: genesis-26216
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: View From the Harbor
        date: 2022
       words: 11
      flesch: 85
     summary: 45 View From the Harbor Sara Lansdell Digital, 2471 x 4278px
    keywords: 4278px
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        item: #344 of 662
          id: genesis-26217
      author: Lansdell, Sara
       title: Spidersilk Overgrowth
        date: 2022
       words: 9
      flesch: 75
     summary: 46 Spidersilk Overgrowth Sara Lansdell Digital, 3000 x 1500px
    keywords: 1500px
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        item: #345 of 662
          id: genesis-26218
      author: Price, Caitlin
       title: Mask Etiquette
        date: 2022
       words: 10
      flesch: 108
     summary: Mask Etiquette Caitlin Price Pen on paper, 1439 x 1233px
    keywords: 1233px
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        item: #346 of 662
          id: genesis-26219
      author: Kucaj, Shannon
       title: Cobweb Words
        date: 2022
       words: 82
      flesch: 80
     summary: Just a tiny opening for silky strands to crisscross between teeth a home for dewy egg clusters to hatch, craving warm juices to fill their little bellies. Cobweb Words Shannon Kucaj Hairy spider legs tiptoe over goosebumps planting on plump lips tip tapping teeth as she sleeps awaiting her moist mouth’s answer.
    keywords: teeth
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        item: #347 of 662
          id: genesis-26957
      author: Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2023
       words: 179
      flesch: 53
     summary: Abby & Zoe Managing Editors - 3 - genesis has been publishing student work since 1972 and is entirely selected, designed, and edited by dedicated IUPUI editors.
    keywords: issue
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        item: #348 of 662
          id: genesis-26958
      author: Hand, Siren
       title: Birdwatching (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 346
      flesch: 78
     summary: Also 11:37 (Local time): four adult female finches, seven Adult male sparrows, three adult male starlings (all) dig at the ground (Keypad 8), scramble for the yield of another's destruction. Seed spills from the feeder (Keypad 5 to Keypad 8).
    keywords: adult
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        item: #349 of 662
          id: genesis-26959
      author: Coello, Louisa
       title: The Vine Grower
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 88
     summary: The Vine Grower Louisa Coello Graphite and ink on paper, 8”x10” - 10 -
    keywords: vine
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        item: #350 of 662
          id: genesis-26960
      author: Coello, Louisa
       title: Storge (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 11
      flesch: 72
     summary: Storge Louisa Coello Graphite on paper with digital color, 11”x14” - 11 -
    keywords: storge
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        item: #351 of 662
          id: genesis-26961
      author: Vogeler, Megan
       title: Alive
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 88
     summary: Alive Megan Vogeler Oil paint and sawdust on stretched canvas, 18x24 - 12 -
    keywords: megan
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        item: #352 of 662
          id: genesis-26962
      author: McIntire, Thalia
       title: Fungal Body
        date: 2023
       words: 107
      flesch: 90
     summary: Let any eyes that lay upon me be glazed over with gray lichen in punishment for their crime. I could be a home for so much life, the spores in my lungs that wheeze when I speak, the worms boring holes beyond my eye sockets, the rats and rodents carving out a den in my abdomen.
    keywords: mold
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        item: #353 of 662
          id: genesis-26963
      author: Schwartz, Emma
       title: Parking Garage Dream
        date: 2023
       words: 10
      flesch: 86
     summary: Parking Garage Dream Emma Schwartz Oil on canvas, 30x40 - 14 -
    keywords: parking
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        item: #354 of 662
          id: genesis-26964
      author: Runkel, Mason
       title: Herbie Sits in a Field for 10 Years
        date: 2023
       words: 13
      flesch: 76
     summary: Herbie Sits in a Field for 10 Years Mason Runkel Digital Photograph - 15 -
    keywords: herbie
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        item: #355 of 662
          id: genesis-26965
      author: Vogeler, Megan
       title: Reality Built
        date: 2023
       words: 10
      flesch: 86
     summary: Reality Built Megan Vogeler Oil on stretched canvas, 30”x40” - 16 -
    keywords: reality
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        item: #356 of 662
          id: genesis-26966
      author: McCollum, Corlan
       title: There Were 87 Work-Related Real Estate Deaths in 2019
        date: 2023
       words: 550
      flesch: 89
     summary: The pony follows you out, expecting more treats, but not being too forward about it. Then you go and clean up the blood and hoof prints just in time for the buyers to arrive, and the first thing they do is comment on how they’ll have to get a rug for the living room.
    keywords: pony
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        item: #357 of 662
          id: genesis-26968
      author: Fecteau, Emma Yuan
       title: Fantasyland (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 3176
      flesch: 89
     summary: Jia clung to the photograph and traced the outline of Lianna with her fingers. Fantasyland Emma Yuan Fecteau “Jia raised her metal fans and a windstorm of flames erupted around Lord Ren, engulfing the once proud northern invader.
    keywords: jia; lianna; lord; mei; shen
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        item: #358 of 662
          id: genesis-26969
      author: Vogeler, Megan
       title: Evil Among Us
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 103
     summary: Evil Among Us Megan Vogeler Oil paint on stretched canvases, 36”x72” - 26 -
    keywords: evil
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        item: #359 of 662
          id: genesis-26970
      author: Coello, Louisa
       title: Sirens
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 92
     summary: Sirens Louisa Coello Graphite on paper, 11”x14” - 27 -
    keywords: sirens
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        item: #360 of 662
          id: genesis-26972
      author: Justice, Sage
       title: Poppy
        date: 2023
       words: 136
      flesch: 85
     summary: A corpse woven in silk waits to be plucked and hand-delivered into the arms of loving Death, mouth slacked, slivered eyes, the sweetness of rot not yet settled in. The Worker of the Woods hammers away in early morning, nails his ghost to every tree.
    keywords: helios
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        item: #361 of 662
          id: genesis-26973
      author: Justice, Sage
       title: Questions for the Sculptor
        date: 2023
       words: 116
      flesch: 81
     summary: Skeletons cutting out Valentines with safety scissors Who are the ghosts A: City rats scouring empty nests in human skulls retching bile and tar Threadbare hands caked with clay
    keywords: clay
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        item: #362 of 662
          id: genesis-26975
      author: Hearn, Sidnea
       title: You ARE the Blueprint
        date: 2023
       words: 118
      flesch: 83
     summary: The way her satin lips are soft to the touch, softer than brown skin that has been dipped in cocoa and shea butter, softer than the cotton ball clouds that form in blue skies. Strong Black Woman, your heart of gleaming gold, Why dim your shimmer, why bleach your skin, or change the way you look?
    keywords: way
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        item: #363 of 662
          id: genesis-26976
      author: Vogeler, Megan
       title: A Different Perspective
        date: 2023
       words: 11
      flesch: 64
     summary: A Different Perspective Megan Vogeler Oil on wooden panel, 45x35 - 31 -
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      author: Vogeler, Megan
       title: Red Room: The Transformation
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 67
     summary: Red Room: The Transformation Megan Vogeler Oil paint on masonite, 24x36 - 32 -
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        item: #365 of 662
          id: genesis-26978
      author: Coello, Louisa
       title: Recovering Eden
        date: 2023
       words: 10
      flesch: 69
     summary: Recovering Eden Louisa Coello Oil pastel on paper, 18”x24” - 33 -
    keywords: eden
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        item: #366 of 662
          id: genesis-26979
      author: Hand, Siren
       title: Tarantella
        date: 2023
       words: 232
      flesch: 84
     summary: Shove a ten in the tip jar to a turned back, sway to crusted velvet couch that's probably cradled too many lovers— set seasick glasses on the low table. We don't dance, we pulse we free-form flow into hours when only the Divine would be awake, strobing: our shadows play on a gridded confessional wall, stained glass chandeliers paint us holy.
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          id: genesis-26980
      author: Hand, Siren
       title: D.C. al Coda
        date: 2023
       words: 550
      flesch: 83
     summary: D.C. al Coda The thread from his Flag shrinks from the heat coiling tightly blackening into crumbling rubbing into good-as-new into January 7th, into some refrain of a spotless nation put back as it was supposed to be— no one ever the wiser. This cloth is voice, and presence, and power.
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      author: Hand, Siren
       title: Nina
        date: 2023
       words: 118
      flesch: 80
     summary: Inside on Aphrodite’s couch, though we purr like lions, stroking each other’s cheek and melt, all curly hair and dimples, floral dresses with deep pockets. Growl at passing men on sidewalks off our oppressive leashes, uncaged unwilling to paint ourselves pure and be blank canvases in a jeweler's display.
    keywords: grasp
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          id: genesis-26982
      author: Rose, Julia
       title: I Prayed to Santa Fe (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 2824
      flesch: 78
     summary: My parents are flawed as parents, as people, and I resented them for justified reasons, but in my high school years, I was pigheaded when it came to any type of forgiveness. “And do you know the story of Juan Diego?”
    keywords: chapel; church; lady; loretto; parents; staircase
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          id: genesis-26984
      author: Schwartz, Emma
       title: Untitled (Tampon)
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: Untitled (Tampon) Emma Schwartz Oil on canvas, 45x55 - 46 -
    keywords: tampon
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        item: #371 of 662
          id: genesis-26985
      author: Schwartz, Emma
       title: NYC Subway
        date: 2023
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: NYC Subway Emma Schwartz Collage, 22x30 - 47 -
    keywords: nyc
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        item: #372 of 662
          id: genesis-26987
      author: Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe; Hawkins, Kelsey
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2023
       words: 202
      flesch: 64
     summary: We hope it reflects the experiences of current IUPUI students while acknowledging the history and legacy of past genesis issues. IUPUI students have been contributing to and creating our magazine since 1972.
    keywords: editors
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        item: #373 of 662
          id: genesis-26988
      author: Layden, Sarah
       title: Note from the Advisor
        date: 2023
       words: 309
      flesch: 64
     summary: Worth it, say the student editors of genesis, who have kept this award-winning magazine in print for fifty uninterrupted years. We share our lives through the art we create, and the work in genesis tells a story about IUPUI.
    keywords: magazine
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        item: #374 of 662
          id: genesis-26989
      author: Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe; Hawkins, Kelsey
       title: History of genesis
        date: 2023
       words: 603
      flesch: 67
     summary: genesis - 6 - hiStory of When we became editors, we entered the den of genesis – a small, windowless room on the 3rd floor of Cavanaugh Hall, with boxes of old issues stacked precariously along the walls. Early issues held book reviews and philosophical essays alongside memoirs and several of the genres we still publish today.
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        item: #375 of 662
          id: genesis-26990
      author: Dimaranan, Frances
       title: Kumain (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 61
     summary: - 11 - Kumain Gouache and acrylic, 18x24 Frances Dimaranan
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        item: #376 of 662
          id: genesis-26991
      author: McCollum, Corlan
       title: A Story About Pensions
        date: 2023
       words: 480
      flesch: 63
     summary: Upper upper management wrote very neatly in a file about upper management that they had demonstrated very diligent fiscal responsibility and sufficiently handled the accountants, and recommended them for promotion. Upper upper management noticed the firing of a quarter million accoun- tants.
    keywords: accountants
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        item: #377 of 662
          id: genesis-26992
      author: Hand, Siren
       title: Safety Brief
        date: 2023
       words: 343
      flesch: 88
     summary: I saw it in American History X and didn’t know that cruelty could happen in real life until the news showed it. Make sure protestors with wheelchairs and walkers are not being harassed or targeted; The march pace reaches fever pitch and the bullhorn, chanting pulls away from 2.5 miles an hour.
    keywords: march
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          id: genesis-26993
      author: Ventura, Tara
       title: A Bone to Pick
        date: 2023
       words: 1357
      flesch: 97
     summary: Nico stood with plug in hand, ready to yank, the meat grinder rumbled on. “You don’t bet with money when you work at a deli and nobody shoots a gun in New York without somebody else around to hear it,” Nico told me when he noticed me peeking.
    keywords: dad; hand; nico
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        item: #379 of 662
          id: genesis-26994
      author: Shannon, Kaiti
       title: Bladed Mirror
        date: 2023
       words: 7
      flesch: 66
     summary: Bladed Mirror Kaiti Shannon Photography, 4x6 - 19 -
    keywords: mirror
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        item: #380 of 662
          id: genesis-26995
      author: Justice, Sage
       title: Midwestern Gothic Road Trip
        date: 2023
       words: 132
      flesch: 78
     summary: It’s antler shedding season– ribbons of red flesh hang from a buck’s head as it darts from fields to quaking aspens whose eyes haunt the cloven imprints left in the earth. Midwestern Gothic Road Trip Sage Justice Frost clings to the corn fields that line roads with no painted lines, no names, just numbers like prisoner 9860 trudging through solemn dirt.
    keywords: fields
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        item: #381 of 662
          id: genesis-26996
      author: Dimaranan, Frances
       title: Waffle House Wednesday
        date: 2023
       words: 7
      flesch: 54
     summary: Waffle House Wednesday Frances Dimaranan Digital - 21 -
    keywords: waffle
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        item: #382 of 662
          id: genesis-26997
      author: Watkins, Tamara
       title: Shepard's Causeway
        date: 2023
       words: 16
      flesch: 68
     summary: Shepard's Causeway Tamara Watkins Sharpie, black and white gel pen, acrylic, and watercolor, 12x16 - 22 -
    keywords: shepard
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        item: #383 of 662
          id: genesis-26998
      author: Copenhaver, Teresa
       title: Stargazing
        date: 2023
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: Stargazing Teresa Copenhaver Ink drawing on multimedia paper, 12x9 - 23 -
    keywords: teresa
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        item: #384 of 662
          id: genesis-26999
      author: Scott, Kat
       title: Moon Mother
        date: 2023
       words: 111
      flesch: 85
     summary: Lifting to pour sticky jam in divots, tart and overwhelming. With a face, so faithfully dusted concealing acne craters, the voice of mother through still air reminds you to floss.
    keywords: mother
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        item: #385 of 662
          id: genesis-27000
      author: Hearn, Sidnea
       title: Black Indeed
        date: 2023
       words: 169
      flesch: 88
     summary: Gold chains glitter around the necks of Black Kings and Queens. Black Kings and Queens.
    keywords: queens
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        item: #386 of 662
          id: genesis-27001
      author: Casey, David
       title: Walking Down an Evening Beach (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 736
      flesch: 90
     summary: [4] Sitting far above the shoreline now, I grab a fistful of sand and let it trickle upon my feet. There are more stars in the universe Than grains of sand on every beach in the world.
    keywords: sand; water
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        item: #387 of 662
          id: genesis-27002
      author: Heavilin, Aiden
       title: The Conductor's Funeral
        date: 2023
       words: 3276
      flesch: 77
     summary: But if you haven’t achieved it, Mr. Conductor, Mr. Old Man with Silver Spectacles, then you won’t achieve it, will you, taking your position as the leader of the multifarious rituals and stomping his foot in anger at the dozens of mistakes he perceives yet lacks the energy to criticize. Perhaps, he imagines in his deepest despair, he will never achieve the perfect performance, but there will at least be a perfect mea- sure, a sudden alignment of hearts, the entire orchestra looking up in astonishment and realizing that they are no longer reading music, they are merely playing what is right, and that what is right happens to conform perfectly with the master score.
    keywords: conductor; eyes; man; marla; music; world
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          id: genesis-27003
      author: Pickering, Lauren
       title: Wavering Dark Thought
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 67
     summary: Wavering Dark Thought Lauren Pickering Digital Photoshop brushes, 11x14 300 DPI - 37 -
    keywords: dpi
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        item: #389 of 662
          id: genesis-27004
      author: Fisher, Megan
       title: Growth
        date: 2023
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: Growth Megan Fisher Digital Art, 2x8 - 38 -
    keywords: growth
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        item: #390 of 662
          id: genesis-27005
      author: Battin, Kyle
       title: Pattern I (Recolored)
        date: 2023
       words: 19
      flesch: 58
     summary: Pattern I (Recolored) Kyle Battin Acrylic ink, 3-color screenprint on 100lb paper, 9x9 image on 12x12paper - 39 -
    keywords: pattern
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        item: #391 of 662
          id: genesis-27006
      author: Fecteau, Emma Yuan
       title: Fanwa Road
        date: 2023
       words: 1203
      flesch: 91
     summary: “Zhou Zeng Ya.” Li turned around. Zhou Li’s mother had cleared a table in the kitchen.
    keywords: daughter; officer
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          id: genesis-27007
      author: Shannon, Kaiti
       title: Devils in the Livery of Heaven
        date: 2023
       words: 2514
      flesch: 63
     summary: As slaves in America, Harriett Jacobs and Frederick Douglass both experienced and understood how religion was used—specifically in the South. In their memoirs, they examine the hypocrisy of religion being used to moralize treatment and excuse atrocities done towards slaves.
    keywords: douglass; god; religion; slaves
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        item: #393 of 662
          id: genesis-27008
      author: Justice, Sage
       title: Ode to Healer, Indianapolis
        date: 2023
       words: 168
      flesch: 79
     summary: We are performance artists, in our element with Dana Skully and Moon Goons. We piss in bathrooms with “whatever” door signs, kiss under crocheted blankets, smudge our eyelids with black grease.
    keywords: room
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        item: #394 of 662
          id: genesis-27009
      author: Pickering, Lauren
       title: I'm an Octo + I Love My Cats
        date: 2023
       words: 22
      flesch: 76
     summary: I'm an Octo + I Love My Cats Lauren Pickering Micron and ink pen, digital Photoshop brushes, 13.69x10.5 400 DPI - 49 -
    keywords: octo
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        item: #395 of 662
          id: genesis-27010
      author: Watkins, Tamara
       title: My Parents' Crazy Hoarder Basement
        date: 2023
       words: 16
      flesch: 90
     summary: My Parents' Crazy Hoarder Basement Tamara Watkins Sharpie and white gel pen on paper, 22x30 - 50 -
    keywords: parents
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        item: #396 of 662
          id: genesis-27011
      author: Battin, Kyle
       title: Pattern V
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: Pattern V Kyle Battin Digital, 7200x10800 pixels - 51 -
    keywords: pattern
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        item: #397 of 662
          id: genesis-27012
      author: DeFelice, Kitley
       title: Dirtied
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 40
     summary: Dirtied Kitley DeFelice Digital photography, 3398x2448 pixels - 52 -
    keywords: kitley
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        item: #398 of 662
          id: genesis-27013
      author: Casey, David
       title: The Abandoned, the Alone, and the Left Behind (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 1750
      flesch: 82
     summary: There, the four-lane road sprouts a fifth off to the right, so that cars can slow down before turning into the entrance. More often, though, and ever since I can remember, I’ve been most intrigued by cars left abandoned on the side of the road.
    keywords: car; cars; left; road
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        item: #399 of 662
          id: genesis-27014
      author: Fisher, Megan
       title: Last Memories of You
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: Last Memories of You Megan Fisher Digital - 57 -
    keywords: memories
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        item: #400 of 662
          id: genesis-27015
      author: Hand, Siren
       title: Better Fences (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 3616
      flesch: 97
     summary: Even thinking about it now, I only really saw Miss Valentine frown a handful of times: one when she told me not to worry about what happened to Bitty, that she would be okay, and another was this very time when Zion asked for food. After my mother drove to work, her vacant space left a perfect half- court for Zion and me to play basketball in, until she got home in time to start dinner.
    keywords: bitty; miss; time; valentine; zion
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        item: #401 of 662
          id: genesis-27016
      author: Stewart, Jacob
       title: An Appalachian Morning
        date: 2023
       words: 102
      flesch: 54
     summary: An Appalachian Morning Jacob Stewart A fragrant fog, a mountain mist Closely clings to springtime air Upon the scene, great evergreens Densely hug the landscape there Down the path, a bubbling brook Is hidden, save to those who seek It sings a psalm with current calm Praising, without words, so sweet And in the drear, a distant sound Grazing steer call, long and plain While deer scurry, without hurry Past the patter of the rain Peace protrudes the place not touched Long by the infirm hand of man Where one can see God’s majesty Smoky peak to creek bed sand - 66 -
    keywords: sand
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        item: #402 of 662
          id: genesis-27017
      author: Vogeler, Megan
       title: Acceptance
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: Acceptance Megan Vogeler Oil on canvas, 30x50 - 67 -
    keywords: acceptance
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        item: #403 of 662
          id: genesis-27018
      author: Spurling, Alex
       title: Ode to Gray Men
        date: 2023
       words: 87
      flesch: 60
     summary: Ode to Gray Men Alex Spurling I’m no spring chicken inside I feel rowdy young and tempestuous I am tawdry and bold never mild smoking in corners flying by the seams violating étiquettes The Trumpeting Troubadour! a hot iron skillet, a grease fire hoppin’ out of the pan The residue of boyhood– powder kegs with short fuses Mighty Roar! mighty squeak! No longer, nimble in the feet No longer, sound in the mind I’m still a grease fire and I’m no spring chicken. - 68 -
    keywords: chicken
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        item: #404 of 662
          id: genesis-27019
      author: Cunningham, Rachael
       title: Rooster
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 75
     summary: Rooster Rachael Cunningham Oil paint and sand, 20x16 - 69 -
    keywords: rooster
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        item: #405 of 662
          id: genesis-27020
      author: Breach, Veronica
       title: Queen of Hearts
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: Queen of Hearts Veronica Breach Digital, 4400x5600 pixels - 70 -
    keywords: queen
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        item: #406 of 662
          id: genesis-27021
      author: Copenhaver, Teresa
       title: Blue Dragon
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: Blue Dragon Teresa Copenhaver Silkscreen monotype print, 11x9 - 71 -
    keywords: dragon
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        item: #407 of 662
          id: genesis-27022
      author: Dryer, Julia
       title: An Unexpected Guest
        date: 2023
       words: 11
      flesch: 49
     summary: An Unexpected Guest Julia Dryer Acrylic and colored pencil, 11x20 - 72 -
    keywords: guest
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        item: #408 of 662
          id: genesis-27023
      author: Dryer, Julia
       title: Laid to Rest in Lilacs
        date: 2023
       words: 14
      flesch: 83
     summary: Laid to Rest in Lilacs Julia Dryer Colored pencil on black paper, 11x14 - 73 -
    keywords: paper
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        item: #409 of 662
          id: genesis-27024
      author: Justice, Sage
       title: Lavender Boy
        date: 2023
       words: 229
      flesch: 93
     summary: Lavender Boy Sage Justice I met a trapeze artist named Eve when the full moon rose deep in the navy sky, orange clouds kissing Lake Michigan. Circles of tamed fire twirled in the air and we danced, feet traipsing one in front of the other until we tumbled to the dark dewy grass.
    keywords: lake
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        item: #410 of 662
          id: genesis-27025
      author: Pickering, Lauren
       title: A Dream of Frog and Toad
        date: 2023
       words: 26
      flesch: 60
     summary: A Dream of Frog and Toad Lauren Pickering Fabric, polyester fill, embroidery thread, buttons, plastic greenery, copper wire, cardboard, and LED lights, 25x51 300 DPI - 75 -
    keywords: dpi
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        item: #411 of 662
          id: genesis-27026
      author: Scott, Kat
       title: The plaster tub
        date: 2023
       words: 401
      flesch: 91
     summary: Her smiles opened doors, her words slicked chintzy palms while I became a receptacle for long nights gone awry. She wanted me to embrace them: the ones who shriek and yowl from their trucks like they’re in heat, latching bitter eyes as they caress your ass.
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        item: #412 of 662
          id: genesis-27027
      author: Ventura, Tara
       title: january poem
        date: 2023
       words: 237
      flesch: 25
     summary: january poem Tara Ventura - 78 - in my dreams i rip my heart out myself and offer it to you–still salvageable and everything– i am the sacrifice i never get used to it seeing it lie there screaming in front of you i put it all on the table and watched you walk in reality i do it alone they say it’s a two person job but that’s never stopped me before forget the rope or any of the toys for that matter. i always was an eleven pm decision. not fucked up enough to forget me but not quite sober enough to want me the next morning either rub those circles in my back, connect every sun kissed freckle and mole i don’t want to hide them they’re proof i’ve lived without you i could be the perfect confidant unable to tell another soul
    keywords: morning
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        item: #413 of 662
          id: genesis-27028
      author: Schwartz, Emma
       title: Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh Lolli-Lolli-Lolli
        date: 2023
       words: 13
      flesch: 76
     summary: Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh Lolli-Lolli-Lolli Emma Schwartz Oil on canvas, 22x32 - 79 -
    keywords: lolli
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        item: #414 of 662
          id: genesis-27029
      author: Justice, Sage
       title: My Partner Shaves My Head in the Bathtub
        date: 2023
       words: 164
      flesch: 78
     summary: My Partner Shaves My Head in the Bathtub Sage Justice and the porcelain soothes my restive fingers; wandering flurries of hair drift around me like dove feathers. He steadies himself on me, hand on my shoulder, blows hair from the clipper blade.
    keywords: hair
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        item: #415 of 662
          id: genesis-27030
      author: Taylor, Juan
       title: White English: A Satire
        date: 2023
       words: 1128
      flesch: 74
     summary: As the nation grew, White English began to diversify, but these variations are minor in comparison to the major differences between White English and Regular English. It would take a novel to discuss these distinctions sufficiently, but I will point out a few of the differences between White English and Regular English.
    keywords: english; white
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        item: #416 of 662
          id: genesis-27031
      author: Keller, Pamela Sue
       title: Untitled
        date: 2023
       words: 6
      flesch: 102
     summary: Untitled Pamela Sue Keller, 1979 - 87 -
    keywords: pamela
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        item: #417 of 662
          id: genesis-27032
      author: Yalimaiwai, Davinia
       title: Green Eggs and Spam
        date: 2023
       words: 1482
      flesch: 81
     summary: All we know is that it is salty, and meaty, and that it tastes good with just about anything: Spam musubi (Japanese sushi made with Spam), Spam saimin (hot soup with noodles and a slab of Spam), Spam fried rice (self-explanatory), Spam and eggs for breakfast (now on our McDonald’s Dollar Menu), Spam and cheese sandwich for lunch, and Spam and shoyu rice (white rice covered in soy sauce) for dinner. And there is always enough Spam to feed everybody thrice over.
    keywords: hawaii; islands; keola; spam
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        item: #418 of 662
          id: genesis-27033
      author: Fan, Lifan
       title: Whale Watching
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: Whale Watching Lifan Fan, 2016 Oil on canvas - 92 -
    keywords: whale
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          id: genesis-27034
      author: Millier, Camille
       title: Block C
        date: 2023
       words: 3135
      flesch: 87
     summary: Calling to report an accident involving prisoner 339 and Officer Brett St. John, guard in charge of Block C. Full report with details will be filed and sent to the office as soon as possible. And then Okay, see ya later, Officer St. John, as Brett opened the steel door to Block C and tagged out the night-shift guard.
    keywords: brett; jamie; john; officer; prisoner
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        item: #420 of 662
          id: genesis-27035
      author: Balding, Kimberly
       title: Steam Street
        date: 2023
       words: 7
      flesch: 66
     summary: Steam Street Kimberly Balding, 2006 Photography - 101 -
    keywords: steam
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        item: #421 of 662
          id: genesis-27036
      author: Eskridge, Casey
       title: Nobleman from Sculptor Portfolio
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 74
     summary: Nobleman from Sculptor Portfolio Casey Eskridge, 1996 High clay, 21 high - 102 -
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        item: #422 of 662
          id: genesis-27037
      author: Eskridge, Casey
       title: Marshal Walz from Sculptor Portfolio
        date: 2023
       words: 13
      flesch: 83
     summary: Marshal Walz from Sculptor Portfolio Casey Eskridge, 1996 High clay, 12 high - 103 -
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        item: #423 of 662
          id: genesis-27038
      author: Johnson, David Brent
       title: Burning Butterflies
        date: 2023
       words: 1090
      flesch: 90
     summary: I told this to you on our first date, in the dim place we called Coffeehouse Hell, with windmill fans and huge potted plants that hung just a few feet above our table. Through your window I watch a flock of black birds in the grey sky, swirl- ing like ashes in the wind.
    keywords: green; like
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        item: #424 of 662
          id: genesis-27039
      author: Lucy, Daniel
       title: Progressions
        date: 2023
       words: 167
      flesch: 55
     summary: I heard The morning moon without looking, Saw trees seeming flat Against the hillsides, veins In loam, august arteries, under This puckered sun, patches Of capillaries, leaves; Far away childs are making laughter, Spun slowly as though from A laughter gin; I feel The toothless path of morning Without putting out my hand To find its wind; I stand, pan the river with a look As hungry as the eyes of taxidermied Owls; I make home wherever evening settles; I make my way home hopefully. So like the old ones Held in porchswing pendulums Swinging through the precious summer nights, Striking the hours with sighs.
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        item: #425 of 662
          id: genesis-27041
      author: Ventura, Tara
       title: A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Menopause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan”
        date: 2023
       words: 180
      flesch: 75
     summary: A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Meno- pause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan” Tara Ventura - 81 - The New York Times said that South Korea said that North Korea has fired two more missiles and I think for the second -but definitely not last- time today about how it’ll all be over soon and The New York Times won’t report on climate change or missiles anymore because no one will be left waiting to read it. much as I hate to admit it- at the thought of an earth without polar bears and bamboo and my junky car and especially me and you -but only together- in it.
    keywords: times
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        item: #426 of 662
          id: genesis-27069
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: A COVID Supermarket in Indiana
        date: 2023
       words: 477
      flesch: 87
     summary: Tonight, I’ll watch you spin, Allen Ginsberg, and try to untangle my mind. Ginsberg, I dated the grocery boy.
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        item: #427 of 662
          id: genesis-27070
      author: Harrell, Danielle
       title: Dissociation (cover)
        date: 2023
       words: 12
      flesch: 18
     summary: 7 Dissociation Danielle Harrell Acrylic paint, watercolor, colored pencil, marker, collage; 17”x30”
    keywords: collage
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        item: #428 of 662
          id: genesis-27071
      author: Spurling, Alex T.
       title: Evening Hunger
        date: 2023
       words: 122
      flesch: 18
     summary: In my purview, a livestock trailer ocular slits for ventilation, a dozen waving snouts, sun rays on bead-like eyes the stench of the farm it permeates grass fed, free-roam makes no difference Billboards, pictorial images, of perspiring patties and salivating mouths unshakable adverts Hindus venerate the cow, the Jains as well a divine symbol dung, urine, and milk, ghee and curd, an all-purpose remedy panchagavya the heifer is generous Discomfort, and the eyes of privilege break contact, for their own sake meditation is disbanded by impatient horns and coarse expletives And, sympathetic hands, raise a perspiring patty to my salivating mouth, and nothing is sacred 8 Evening Hunger Alex T. Spurling In traffic, thrown into the thralls of hunger.
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        item: #429 of 662
          id: genesis-27072
      author: Gross, Nicholas
       title: Damn Junkies
        date: 2023
       words: 3178
      flesch: 96
     summary: Mark referred to the begin- ning of rehearsal as “Johnny Time,” because it was whatever time that Johnny decided that he would come to rehearsal. “I’ll see you tomorrow for rehearsal at Johnny O’ Clock.
    keywords: damn; johnny; man; mark; people; time
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        item: #430 of 662
          id: genesis-27073
      author: Ivey, Mariah
       title: Rest and Fire, Black Child
        date: 2023
       words: 181
      flesch: 32
     summary: 15 Rest and Fire, Black Child Mariah Ivey may you dance as if the fire is beneath you chassé your fears into plied position scorching pavements with radical affirmation promising to always be kind to yourself may you burn down broken systems tethered to Black tears Emmett Tills and ticking timebombs, only to ring-shout your way into safe spaces of emotional release may you awaken without apology on your tongue but joy beneath your wings laughing as if healing and resistance share one body may you remember your body—not as America’s sacrificial lamb but as a harmonious vessel of ancestral hymns singing songs of sweetness and soul liberation will come from a Black thing may your palms, as they are, blessed with golden warmth and grandmama’s prayers, hold vinyl record memories worth replaying on Sundays may your days feel a lot warmer there not as an escape of your reality but an extension of the reimagined ease belongs to you ease has always belonged to you rest and fire. rest and fire, Black child.
    keywords: fire
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        item: #431 of 662
          id: genesis-27074
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Autopsy
        date: 2023
       words: 63
      flesch: 92
     summary: Found tire swings and skipping stones. 16 Autopsy Nathan Marquam I’ve searched for something good in you, like apple carved down to the bone.
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        item: #432 of 662
          id: genesis-27076
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: Unnamed Poem 6
        date: 2023
       words: 183
      flesch: 69
     summary: I lay atop my bed with clouds for eyes; these wretched liquid tears beseem me well, for nightly days and daily nights have come to be ubiquitous so with these storms. The moon aflame the night wants too to die, a flutter ‘twixt the clouds o’ dreary hell; she weeps, and tears besmirch the whilom ‘drum arras o’ sky; her flames ignite the swarm of thoughts–of thoughts of which there was a dearth– to die, to take the hand o’ moon and then— ignite, the round o’ chamber, make my end, to call my days forgone, by means of scend, and was it well, decided I, the perfect Night to … [sic, page torn]
    keywords: end
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        item: #433 of 662
          id: genesis-27077
      author: Hay, Nicole
       title: there’s something they’re not telling me
        date: 2023
       words: 14
      flesch: 89
     summary: 19 there’s something they’re not telling me Nicole Hay Digital art; 6”x8”
    keywords: 6”x8
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        item: #434 of 662
          id: genesis-27078
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: coruscations
        date: 2023
       words: 292
      flesch: 64
     summary: He’s crawling through my mouth (Again) he’s fingering my eyes, I’ve let him come alive (AGAIN his howl no surprise ‘fore twilight throes, the victim moans unto My jungle groans her wet oasis, her featherdove hair, Her skin the moon so fair So rare so soft her lips We’re crawling through the bliss Her mourning seeks red tongues Her eyes so wet to lies— We come for sin Death welcoming The pleasure Your demise 20 coruscations Christopher Cassetty dreamt i one july of—coruscations who, when asked, would dance upon the walls and glimmer in the blood that dripped from the ceilings. dreamt i one late june of the rancid entrails of the driver of a car—spilt—across stained asphalt and wondered, “what is this to do with me?” dreamt i last night of my dreams, a coruscation, a nightmare, an overdose and an accident, and wondered if there was anything at all to be learnt from a dream.
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        item: #435 of 662
          id: genesis-27079
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Munkhi
        date: 2023
       words: 160
      flesch: 69
     summary: He’s crawling through my mouth (Again) he’s fingering my eyes, I’ve let him come alive (AGAIN his howl no surprise ‘fore twilight throes, the victim moans unto My jungle groans her wet oasis, her featherdove hair, Her skin the moon so fair So rare so soft her lips We’re crawling through the bliss Her mourning seeks red tongues Her eyes so wet to lies— We come for sin Death welcoming The pleasure Your demise 21 Munkhi Mario Stone Sometimes I feed him daily though I try to not at all, and despite the bite, his empty eyes, I heed his monkey call.
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        item: #436 of 662
          id: genesis-27080
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: A Midnight Heartbreak
        date: 2023
       words: 219
      flesch: 64
     summary: When only grown to don my fur, enthrall’d by all the Moon’s allure, with teeth agleam from moonlit dreams—the ichor crying from my teeth— as well, the knell before the sheep, my droning groan for more to eat, beware the air so moon-kiss’d cold, … as werewolf dare I favour wolf. To cry, and die, am I so tempt’, as dreams appease the Night’s contempt, and wherefore werewolves turn to howl, whereby the nightly Moon befouls the midnight grid of blazing stars, our twain, ill-fated, broken hearts, as werewolves share parts man and wolf, and rarely dares feel woe the wolf.
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        item: #437 of 662
          id: genesis-27081
      author: Wilhelm, Raeya
       title: Raven Mocker
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: 23 Raven Mocker Raeya Wilhelm Acrylic paint; 12”x16”
    keywords: raven
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        item: #438 of 662
          id: genesis-27082
      author: Gonzalez, Anthony
       title: A Stalker’s Mercy
        date: 2023
       words: 2487
      flesch: 93
     summary: Kalista slowly made her way down the narrow road, rifle at the low ready, watching for any sign of life. Cautiously, she began to make her way up the steps, eyes and rifle barrel never leaving the entryway.
    keywords: boy; kalista; remy; rifle
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        item: #439 of 662
          id: genesis-27083
      author: Corso, Anna
       title: All I See is Red
        date: 2023
       words: 17
      flesch: 90
     summary: 29 All I See is Red Anna Corso Oil paint, acrylic, and joint compound on wood; 22.5”x2.5”x24”
    keywords: 22.5”x2.5”x24
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        item: #440 of 662
          id: genesis-27084
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Modern Medicine
        date: 2023
       words: 451
      flesch: 78
     summary: Likewise, the staff seems to have been upgraded to young doctors and nurses with plastic skin. Old frumpy furniture with thread- bare cushions has been replaced with sleek modern benches that are resistant to wearing down.
    keywords: room
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        item: #441 of 662
          id: genesis-27085
      author: Kridle, Caroline
       title: Bar in Mexico
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: 31 Bar in Mexico Caroline Kridle Oil painting; 24”x30”
    keywords: bar
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        item: #442 of 662
          id: genesis-27086
      author: McCollum, Corlan
       title: Prayer of the Unrequited Lover
        date: 2023
       words: 390
      flesch: 89
     summary: I know that we go together, and the world may pull us apart or say otherwise, but Lord, there is nothing more pure or divine than love, and I love you, and the best laid plans of men could not keep this love down. God help our souls.
    keywords: love
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        item: #443 of 662
          id: genesis-27087
      author: Coello, Louisa
       title: The Orchard Floor
        date: 2023
       words: 13
      flesch: 89
     summary: 33 The Orchard Floor Louisa Coello Gouache and white ink on paper; 3”x5”
    keywords: paper
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        item: #444 of 662
          id: genesis-27088
      author: David, Cara
       title: Technology
        date: 2023
       words: 8
      flesch: 40
     summary: 34 Technology Cara David Alcohol marker drawing; 11”x17”
    keywords: technology
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        item: #445 of 662
          id: genesis-27089
      author: Wulf, Sarah
       title: The Way the Money Goes
        date: 2023
       words: 1966
      flesch: 95
     summary: What does yours say?” “You will soon discover easy ways to make money,” he sighed. 35 The Way the Money Goes Sarah Wulf Ian’s basement had smelled like weed and alcohol since we were about six, but Ian had only ever drank or smoked at swim team parties.
    keywords: creek; eric; ian; money
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        item: #446 of 662
          id: genesis-27090
      author: Marquam, Nathan
       title: Surrogate father sestina (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 343
      flesch: 78
     summary: I watched as they grew bored of my damage, but they were alive, a line between me and the absence of me, chain wallet fathers, bar stool fathers, fathers I killed while they were still alive. He tasted of salt, morning breath, the absence of death, of fathers, the word no.
    keywords: fathers
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        item: #447 of 662
          id: genesis-27091
      author: McCollum, Corlan
       title: Combat Sport
        date: 2023
       words: 204
      flesch: 86
     summary: Shoulder width apart, find your balance, bend your knees, hear fence! Arm up, blade straight out, foot forward, classic, obvious prise de fer, so they stop advancing and cut across your vest.
    keywords: fence
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        item: #448 of 662
          id: genesis-27092
      author: Corso, Anna
       title: Point Five
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 103
     summary: 43 Point Five Anna Corso Ink on paper; 18”x24”
    keywords: point
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        item: #449 of 662
          id: genesis-27093
      author: Jennings, Kyle
       title: Sweaty Hands and Red Balls (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 1676
      flesch: 89
     summary: Within seconds, balls were flying, and team members were dropping but at a slower rate than the other team. Callouts on what other players should do were floating around us.
    keywords: ball; selvey; team
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        item: #450 of 662
          id: genesis-27094
      author: Harrell, Danielle
       title: Where Was Jesus? (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 27
      flesch: 75
     summary: Where Was Jesus? Danielle Harrell Marker and colored pencil; 22”x30” Modernized illustration from the original Chi Rho page from the Book of Kells. 47
    keywords: jesus
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        item: #451 of 662
          id: genesis-27095
      author: Patrick, Lio
       title: Gardeners (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 604
      flesch: 93
     summary: Bucky and Alma, Jodie, Muriel, his ma and pa, and Christopher—they all gave up on the creaky, broken house, and found better places to die. He knows it by the aches in his limbs and the thrumming of thunder in time with his heartbeat.
    keywords: house
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        item: #452 of 662
          id: genesis-27096
      author: Coovert, Jessamine
       title: Screen Door Blues
        date: 2023
       words: 110
      flesch: 99
     summary: Clothing clings to me, a second skin. Thick air fills my lungs to the brim and swamps all thoughts.
    keywords: door
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        item: #453 of 662
          id: genesis-27097
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Croissants
        date: 2023
       words: 69
      flesch: 86
     summary: 50 Croissants Mario Stone I close my eyes and lick your sweetness from my lips, thinking of your powdered skin beneath my fingertips. And so instead I write these words for you to always know… I savored every second twice to never let you go.
    keywords: lips
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        item: #454 of 662
          id: genesis-27098
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: I fucked to love, but never made it
        date: 2023
       words: 92
      flesch: 84
     summary: To carry on Is vanity— such endeavors in the name of love Are feats of self-deception, A felony of lips Giving way to squandered breath, pleasure past— A thorn to pierce the supple mass And burn the skin I hold close. 51 I fucked to love, but never made it Mario Stone Her crying pulse heralds the chaotic Bellows of deeper thrash.
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        item: #455 of 662
          id: genesis-27099
      author: Foster, Payton
       title: On Plato and Humanity
        date: 2023
       words: 118
      flesch: 87
     summary: Blurring occurs beneath layers of linen And under the dense cover that is night That makes us indistinguishable. I long to stay with you forever this way, Us two melding and becoming seamlessly one.
    keywords: foster
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        item: #456 of 662
          id: genesis-27101
      author: Scott, Kat
       title: The Tilth of Me
        date: 2023
       words: 183
      flesch: 90
     summary: It seems to bend louder underfoot now, a groaning that I’ve pulled back its covers, exposed each blade to cooler air than it took to bed. That it revels in its nudity regardless of light or air or fashion.
    keywords: grass
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        item: #457 of 662
          id: genesis-27111
      author: Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2023
       words: 239
      flesch: 67
     summary: Shannon Kucaj & Monica Simmons Managing Editors We would like to thank our editors for their thoughtful contributions and hard work.
    keywords: work
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        item: #458 of 662
          id: genesis-27267
      author: Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2023
       words: 376
      flesch: 65
     summary: We would like to give special thanks to the Ray Bradbury Center team for collaborating with us on this project. This collection of work reflects this idea.
    keywords: work
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        item: #459 of 662
          id: genesis-27268
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Philanthropy
        date: 2023
       words: 520
      flesch: 96
     summary: It’s a drop of blood as a tax for exploiting human life. On all fours, humbled and crying as true light floods your retinas and burns your eyes.
    keywords: cave
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        item: #460 of 662
          id: genesis-27269
      author: Battin, Kyle
       title: Liminal (cover)
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 66
     summary: - 7 - Liminal Kyle Battin Digital; 2700 x 3600 pixels
    keywords: pixels
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        item: #461 of 662
          id: genesis-27270
      author: Grimes, Ben
       title: Desecrating the Giants’ Corpse (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 630
      flesch: 81
     summary: A fourth of the land that would be dubbed “Indiana” was bogs, fens, marshes, wet prairies—swamp. Yet 13,000 acres of swamp had remained unsullied in Indiana.
    keywords: porter; swamp
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        item: #462 of 662
          id: genesis-27273
      author: Napers, Alexandra
       title: Autumn Adventures 2021
        date: 2023
       words: 13
      flesch: 50
     summary: - 10 - Autumn Adventures 2021 Alexandra Napers Natural paint on canvas; 38 x 18
    keywords: autumn
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        item: #463 of 662
          id: genesis-27274
      author: Wilson, Ashley
       title: Self-portrait in a thunderstorm
        date: 2023
       words: 149
      flesch: 82
     summary: I watch in wonder as lightning strikes, A mere mile from where I stand, Ensconced by the thin glass of my balcony - 11 - Self-portrait in a thunderstorm Ashley Wilson
    keywords: rain
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        item: #464 of 662
          id: genesis-27275
      author: Bailey, Jasmine
       title: Major Depressive Disorder
        date: 2023
       words: 10
      flesch: 57
     summary: - 12 - Major Depressive Disorder Jasmine Bailey Digital; 9 x 12
    keywords: digital
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        item: #465 of 662
          id: genesis-27276
      author: Patrick, Lio
       title: the patience of grief
        date: 2023
       words: 695
      flesch: 86
     summary: With deep embarrassment, I recalled the pair of funeral home workers staring at me as I had a panic attack on the bench next to the front door. - 13 - the patience of grief Lio Patrick When I was fourteen, my uncle Bear was killed by his friend, a man I never met, in a drug dispute.
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        item: #466 of 662
          id: genesis-27277
      author: Harrell, Danielle
       title: The Confessional
        date: 2023
       words: 216
      flesch: 86
     summary: Paper crinkles hastily as I open my scrawled list. - 15 - The Confessional Danielle Harrell My heart beat pulses through my twitching fingers, the folded paper gaining more creases in my sweaty hands.
    keywords: walls
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        item: #467 of 662
          id: genesis-27278
      author: Humes, Kira
       title: Sins of Daughters
        date: 2023
       words: 18
      flesch: 80
     summary: - 17 - Sins of Daughters Kira Humes Graphite on an illustration board in a crosshatch style; 15 x 20
    keywords: sins
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        item: #468 of 662
          id: genesis-27279
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: The Problem with Funeral Plants
        date: 2023
       words: 99
      flesch: 70
     summary: I see it every day—the drooping, withering leaves, the brown, crispy ones peeking from beneath. - 18 - The Problem with Funeral Plants Kim Kile I have a peace lily in my dining room, a reminder that you left too soon and I’m still here trying to keep this damn plant alive.
    keywords: plant
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        item: #469 of 662
          id: genesis-27280
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: Poppies
        date: 2023
       words: 198
      flesch: 56
     summary: I watch these stars stir amidst the bleakness of dried tears, and virgin stars join, occasionally, as old ones are blown away like dust when they grow too old to keep themselves whole, and when will I join their fate? The curtains sough through open windows, and feels my grieving face the virility of Spring—and I see through watery eyes my nepenthe drowned, and only then do I realize that it is possible to love something too—too much.
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        item: #470 of 662
          id: genesis-27281
      author: Bowman, Jane
       title: Slipping Away: Frank and Mattie
        date: 2023
       words: 670
      flesch: 100
     summary: “Yes, Frank,” says Mattie. “Frank, that’s the front door,” says Mattie and points to the stairs.
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        item: #471 of 662
          id: genesis-27282
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Sandstone (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 458
      flesch: 84
     summary: A being called to life through moving bodies of water. Plush and rose-kissed, cushioned from cruel pressures placed on matured bodies.
    keywords: life
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        item: #472 of 662
          id: genesis-27283
      author: Breach, Veronica
       title: The Sun
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: - 23 - The Sun Veronica Breach Digital; 8.6 x 4.7
    keywords: sun
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        item: #473 of 662
          id: genesis-27284
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Making Arrangements
        date: 2023
       words: 181
      flesch: 7
     summary: - 24 - Making Arrangements Kayla McVeigh You can take my body and have it bound in strips of linen You can dye the strips with turmeric or beet juice Do this so it will be vibrant and uplifting Allow the color to invite you to sit with me To whisper what you can barely speak and then I’d like to take rest in the earth To retire my bones in soil To be composted down You know for me there would be no greater ceremony Do this to help return what I have borrowed in this life Allow me to spark life like whale fall Know better than to think these wishes speak against my contentment with life You know my joy in all phases You know my being present is what moves me to make these arrangements To be here, but taking note of each rotation around the sun See every stage as intentional Shouldn’t this include our most transparent surprise The flesh of my body and feelings of my experiences are temporary But my continuation will be endless
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        item: #474 of 662
          id: genesis-27285
      author: Anweiler, Truitt
       title: Dirt Town
        date: 2023
       words: 1670
      flesch: 89
     summary: This, this mound of dirt, was our new world. They could have dug up a new mansion to live in, and we still would have been more enthralled by the mound of dirt they left in our yard.
    keywords: dirt; town; yard
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        item: #475 of 662
          id: genesis-27286
      author: Harrell, Danielle
       title: Rainbow Fish
        date: 2023
       words: 14
      flesch: 78
     summary: Rainbow Fish Danielle Harrell Craft felt, fabric paint, and embroidery; 15.5 x 12.5 - 28 -
    keywords: embroidery
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        item: #476 of 662
          id: genesis-27287
      author: Gaines, Nya A.
       title: Zapatos Nuevos
        date: 2023
       words: 3165
      flesch: 89
     summary: “You can’t dance with feet like these,” Abuelita said. Irene asked.
    keywords: abuelita; dance; foot; irene; mamá; work
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        item: #477 of 662
          id: genesis-27288
      author: Nobbe, Carmen
       title: Sweet Dreams
        date: 2023
       words: 14
      flesch: 95
     summary: Sweet Dreams Carmen Nobbe Ebony pencil and white gel pen; 8 x 10 - 35 -
    keywords: dreams
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        item: #478 of 662
          id: genesis-27289
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: What I Used to Love
        date: 2023
       words: 340
      flesch: 91
     summary: For Baby Theo, forever our first - 36 - What I Used to Love Kim Kile Were you there, Theo, when I got the call from your mama?
    keywords: theo
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        item: #479 of 662
          id: genesis-27290
      author: Starks, Natalie
       title: Warm Inside (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 14
      flesch: 89
     summary: Warm Inside Natalie Starks Oil on canvas; 35 x 35 - 37 - - Best of Art -
    keywords: art
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        item: #480 of 662
          id: genesis-27291
      author: Rodriguez, Cassandra
       title: Roller Coaster
        date: 2023
       words: 167
      flesch: 88
     summary: But still I smile and say “I’m fine” For even through the ups and downs I will love you all the same I’m only partly lying When I say I love roller coasters Because I hate this one I hate the chaos and being flung around When I say I love roller coasters Because I love the thrill The breeze in my hair
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        item: #481 of 662
          id: genesis-27292
      author: Golder, LyNae
       title: Bread and Butter
        date: 2023
       words: 612
      flesch: 97
     summary: Having napped beforehand, Nia’s wide awake to greet him. She drags her feet because she knows she’ll be up a while; she can’t go back to sleep until Zion walks in the door and she knows he’s safe.
    keywords: fireworks
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        item: #482 of 662
          id: genesis-27293
      author: Wulf, Sarah
       title: Jas
        date: 2023
       words: 1226
      flesch: 97
     summary: I want to rip out my hair and scream and kick walls and punch floors until someone tells me what happened to the boy in the video that put the fork into the socket and where Travis is and whether Jas is alive or not. Jas Sarah Wulf I’m pretty sure my friend Jas is dead.
    keywords: jas; travis
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        item: #483 of 662
          id: genesis-27294
      author: Williams, Savanna
       title: Defending Death by Overdose
        date: 2023
       words: 201
      flesch: 75
     summary: In a world where the best advice they got about the opioid crisis is statistics Numbers of death per year, 46,802 Numbers of new users per year, up 27% “Oh, but it was his choice,” someone else said Yet with not enough confidence for me to believe it And they let go with a bottle of Xanax at your disposal In a doctor’s office where you’re asked a two-question survey To determine what FDA approved prescription you should get That’s the same organization that claimed OxyContin wasn’t injurious Numbers of death by OxyContin in 2020, 76,000.
    keywords: death
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        item: #484 of 662
          id: genesis-27295
      author: Starks, Natalie
       title: Bloody Mary
        date: 2023
       words: 11
      flesch: 95
     summary: Bloody Mary Natalie Starks Oil on canvas; 18 x 24 - 45 -
    keywords: mary
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        item: #485 of 662
          id: genesis-27296
      author: Grimes, Ben
       title: Taste a Little Waste with You
        date: 2023
       words: 1128
      flesch: 92
     summary: She was followed by two lines of six; those behind her wore robes of black or earthy red, humming with their heads hung low as their guide took them to the empty place where only the meat was. No bones protruded from the meat; it was all flesh and blood and pus.
    keywords: man; meat
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        item: #486 of 662
          id: genesis-27297
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Potato Bug (best of)
        date: 2023
       words: 670
      flesch: 94
     summary: He’s standing on my back, climbing his way to the top while I’m laboring away, box after box. There are only clumps of moss and white mushrooms that rise to my swollen ankles.
    keywords: anger
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        item: #487 of 662
          id: genesis-27298
      author: Golder, LyNae
       title: The Lucky Candidate
        date: 2023
       words: 466
      flesch: 90
     summary: - 51 - The Lucky Candidate LyNae Golder Listen, honey, I want you to understand how lucky you are to be here. You’ll draw people in, and when they see you—your eyes and your lips and your body— they’ll want to trust us.
    keywords: honey
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        item: #488 of 662
          id: genesis-27299
      author: Harrell, Danielle
       title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
        date: 2023
       words: 17
      flesch: 83
     summary: - The Hound of the Baskervilles Danielle Harrell Cardboard and acrylic paint; 12 x 16 x 1.75 - 52
    keywords: hound
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        item: #489 of 662
          id: genesis-27300
      author: Russell, Ava
       title: When the Train Crashes
        date: 2023
       words: 556
      flesch: 82
     summary: You pretend you’re a writer, but you struggled through this simple sentence word by word, letter by letter, struggled to combine your abstract, nonsensical thoughts into something that’s barely legible. After all, if everyone was one-of-a-kind, if you were one-of-a-kind, no one else in the world would be interested in what you have to say; and you have so many things to say, so many important things about the world, and other people, and even yourself.
    keywords: writer
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        item: #490 of 662
          id: genesis-27301
      author: Aukerman, Jason
       title: Introduction to the Bradbury-Inspired Anthology
        date: 2023
       words: 674
      flesch: 71
     summary: Bradbury often cautioned aspiring writers against being too ambitious by writing novels. ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury left many things behind when he passed away in June of 2012—his stories, poems, films, plays, work with Disney, and his relentless advocacy for freedom of imagination, space exploration, libraries, and literacy.
    keywords: bradbury; writers
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        item: #491 of 662
          id: genesis-27302
      author: Orwig, Jordan
       title: Monster Sale
        date: 2023
       words: 3613
      flesch: 90
     summary: “Mr. Nettle,” Ellen said, “what’s this?” Nettle drew up short. Monster Sale Jordan Orwig Artemis Nettle stood amongst the wisps and willows of the night, turn- ing a small piece of bone-white cardstock over in his fingers.
    keywords: cage; children; david; ellen; nettle
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        item: #492 of 662
          id: genesis-27303
      author: Williamson, Curtis
       title: The Scythe
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 66
     summary: The Scythe Curtis Williamson Digital; 9 x 11 - 68 -
    keywords: scythe
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        item: #493 of 662
          id: genesis-27304
      author: Carlson, Kyrsten
       title: The Master in Pieces
        date: 2023
       words: 2762
      flesch: 89
     summary: Inside, Mr. Oliver Hamilton stood to the side. Mr. Oliver Hamilton, not one for drinking and less for socializing, wan- dered ahead into the reconstructed gallery that was, at that moment, for his eyes only.
    keywords: art; hamilton; man; night; oliver
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        item: #494 of 662
          id: genesis-27305
      author: Hawvermale, Lance
       title: For Ray
        date: 2023
       words: 150
      flesch: 88
     summary: He said go west young man go west until the sun tires of running and by the way there is a market for solar flares if you can bring one back, a penny a word at least. Cherry bombs and dandelions, a Mason jar of Venusian rain— Eat metaphors he told me.
    keywords: bag
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        item: #495 of 662
          id: genesis-27306
      author: Kuzniar, Tim W.
       title: The Halloween Tree
        date: 2023
       words: 22
      flesch: 80
     summary: The Halloween Tree Tim W. Kuzniar Digital tryptich Left - 17 x 36 Center - 9 x 24 Right - 36 x 17 - 76 - - 77 -
    keywords: center
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        item: #496 of 662
          id: genesis-27307
      author: Phillips, Corrine
       title: Stuff Your Eyes with Wonder
        date: 2023
       words: 176
      flesch: 61
     summary: Stuff Your Eyes with Wonder Corrine Phillips When I was a child, I read a book about a pumpkin-covered tree, and I hoped for a magic October night where they might really shine down on me— where I’d search for my pumpkin among all those smiles of flickering souls in the autumn leaves, and I’d live on forever if I could just take it and carry it close to me. But as I’ve grown, I realize a harsh reality: that there is no such thing as this winsome gift of immortality— unless we paint and write our souls on canvas and the page, or capture it with a camera lens and in films that never age.
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        item: #497 of 662
          id: genesis-27308
      author: Keedy, Ron
       title: The Clodhoppers of Winter
        date: 2023
       words: 692
      flesch: 80
     summary: On hot summer days past, it sheltered sweaty, cheering baseball fans from the sun. Tennis shoes that are full of summer magic.
    keywords: shoes; summer; toes
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        item: #498 of 662
          id: genesis-27309
      author: Keedy, Ron
       title: Silver Flash Minnows and Pickle Green Frogs
        date: 2023
       words: 133
      flesch: 84
     summary: Silver Flash Minnows and Pickle Green Frogs Ron Keedy Silver flash minnows and pickle green frogs, Brown-eared bunnies inside hollow logs. A fast moving ripple gives bare feet a tickle, A snake crosses path causing neck hair to prickle.
    keywords: minnows
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        item: #499 of 662
          id: genesis-27310
      author: Terry, Roger
       title: From Ray, with Love
        date: 2023
       words: 3458
      flesch: 82
     summary: I found my way to a section of smaller books, all carefully placed in zip lock bags like fine finger-sandwiches. From Ray, with Love Roger Terry To be rocketed from this world to a place so fantastic, yet so familiar that it steals your breath away, that is what it feels like to read Ray Bradbury.
    keywords: book; eyes; left; life; love; ray; time; world
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        item: #500 of 662
          id: genesis-27311
      author: Williamson, Curtis
       title: The Banshee
        date: 2023
       words: 9
      flesch: 56
     summary: The Banshee Curtis Williamson Digital; 9 x 11 - 88 -
    keywords: banshee
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        item: #501 of 662
          id: genesis-27312
      author: Bollinger, Christopher James
       title: Romance with Ray
        date: 2023
       words: 946
      flesch: 91
     summary: Romance with Ray Christopher James Bollinger She stands there glowing under the Southern California sun. Drive out that morning to UCLA and see Ray Bradbury speak.
    keywords: ray; tears
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        item: #502 of 662
          id: genesis-27313
      author: Phillips, Corrine
       title: To Ray
        date: 2023
       words: 192
      flesch: 73
     summary: And what sweetness it is to swallow such things, to taste the bitter wisp of dandelion, or arid Valley of the Kings, to dream yourself smiling on a cold October night when the air smells of cinnamon as you fly on your kite. I’ve known you in high attics where meadows did green, where spiders weave pearly webs, and Dust Witches glean— cataloging her souls like books on a shelf, imbibing their spirits to poison herself.
    keywords: ray
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        item: #503 of 662
          id: genesis-27314
      author: Whatley, Edward
       title: Idyllic Pasts Nostalgic Futures
        date: 2023
       words: 20
      flesch: 55
     summary: Idyllic Pasts Nostalgic Futures Edward Whatley Pen and ink with digital coloring in Clip Studio Paint; 13 x 10 - 92 -
    keywords: pasts
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        item: #504 of 662
          id: genesis-27315
      author: Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica; Aukerman, Jason
       title: Interview with Jason Aukerman (Ray Bradbury Center Director)
        date: 2023
       words: 2564
      flesch: 55
     summary: Dr. Jon Eller, the world’s foremost scholar on Ray Bradbury, articulated four thematic principles and causes inextricably linked to Bradbury’s legacy: 1) intellectual and creative freedom: this includes matters pertaining to free speech, freedom of the imagination, and the freedom of human beings to pursue the things they love. On August 2 Bob Remington, “Ray Bradbury,” Edmonton Journal; Eller, Bradbury Beyond Apollo, pp.
    keywords: bradbury; center; fiction; influence; ray; space; stories; writing
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        item: #505 of 662
          id: genesis-28217
      author: Evans, Bailey; Witham, Eli
       title: Letter from the Editors 
        date: 2024
       words: 221
      flesch: 70
     summary: Thank you to Sarah Layden, our faculty advisor, for all of her guidance and support as we learned how to step into the role of Man- aging Editors. Alongside pieces of personal reflection are other works that center on feelings of nostalgia for what once was, and hope for what is possible in the future.
    keywords: issue
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        item: #506 of 662
          id: genesis-28221
      author: Franke, Abby
       title: Intimates (best of, cover)
        date: 2024
       words: 11
      flesch: 95
     summary: 46 Stained Glass, Steel Rod Abby Franke Intimates - Best of Art -
    keywords: art
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        item: #507 of 662
          id: genesis-28222
      author: David, Cara
       title: Opossum Lake
        date: 2024
       words: 10
      flesch: 57
     summary: x 14” Digital Illustration Cara David Opossum Lake 9 11”
    keywords: lake
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        item: #508 of 662
          id: genesis-28223
      author: Wells, MyKenzi
       title: Dripping Flowers
        date: 2024
       words: 7
      flesch: 42
     summary: 16 Digital Photography MyKenzi Wells Dripping Flowers
    keywords: flowers
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        item: #509 of 662
          id: genesis-28224
      author: Winslow, Jordan
       title: The Mystery
        date: 2024
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: 28 9” x 12” Acrylic Painting Jordan Winslow The Mystery
    keywords: mystery
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        item: #510 of 662
          id: genesis-28225
      author: Dobson, Elise
       title: Fool for Love
        date: 2024
       words: 13
      flesch: 83
     summary: 43 48” x 36” Acrylic Paint on Canvas Elise Dobson Fool for Love
    keywords: love
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        item: #511 of 662
          id: genesis-28226
      author: Holmes, Lexia
       title: The Silent Beast (1)
        date: 2024
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: 57 Digital Photography Lexia Holmes The Silent Beast
    keywords: beast
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        item: #512 of 662
          id: genesis-28227
      author: David, Cara
       title: Cat in a Tree
        date: 2024
       words: 11
      flesch: 95
     summary: 60 10.5” x 15” Lithograph Cara David Cat in a Tree
    keywords: tree
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        item: #513 of 662
          id: genesis-28228
      author: Holmes, Lexia
       title: The Silent Beast (2)
        date: 2024
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: 76 Digital Photography Lexia Holmes The Silent Beast
    keywords: beast
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        item: #514 of 662
          id: genesis-28229
      author: Franke, Abby
       title: Unbridled Rage
        date: 2024
       words: 11
      flesch: 72
     summary: 92 11” x 17” Digitally Illustrated Posters Unbridled Rage Abby Franke
    keywords: franke
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        item: #515 of 662
          id: genesis-28230
      author: Holmes, Lexia
       title: The Silent Beast (3)
        date: 2024
       words: 8
      flesch: 50
     summary: 97 Digital Photography Lexia Holmes The Silent Beast
    keywords: beast
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        item: #516 of 662
          id: genesis-28231
      author: Wilhelm, Raeya
       title: The Eyes
        date: 2024
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: 100 16” x 24” Acrylic Painting Raeya Wilhelm The Eyes
    keywords: eyes
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        item: #517 of 662
          id: genesis-28232
      author: Keehn, Clayton
       title: Nostalgia Is a Sweet and Suffocating Aroma
        date: 2024
       words: 18
      flesch: 66
     summary: 104 11” x 14” Ink on Synthetic Yupo Paper Clayton Keehn Nostalgia Is a Sweet and Suffocating Aroma
    keywords: aroma
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        item: #518 of 662
          id: genesis-28233
      author: Taylor, Kira
       title: Twisted
        date: 2024
       words: 10
      flesch: 78
     summary: 111 7” x 9” Intaglio Hardground Etching Kira Taylor Twisted
    keywords: taylor
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        item: #519 of 662
          id: genesis-28234
      author: Keehn, Clayton
       title: HDYKAM?
        date: 2024
       words: 12
      flesch: 88
     summary: 122 11” x 14” Ink on Synthetic Yupo Paper Clayton Keehn HDYKAM?
    keywords: hdykam
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        item: #520 of 662
          id: genesis-28235
      author: Kyutoku, Yuko
       title: New York Blue Botanical Garden #1
        date: 2024
       words: 17
      flesch: 70
     summary: 137 23” x 23” Mixed Media on Stonehenge Paper Yuko Kyutoku New York Blue Botanical Garden #1
    keywords: garden
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        item: #521 of 662
          id: genesis-28236
      author: Larson, Corrin
       title: This Is Home
        date: 2024
       words: 8
      flesch: 71
     summary: 142 Film Photography Corrin Larson This Is Home
    keywords: home
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        item: #522 of 662
          id: genesis-28237
      author: Taylor, Kira
       title: Fortune of a Hypochondriac
        date: 2024
       words: 11
      flesch: 64
     summary: 153 12” x 16” Lithograph Kira Taylor Fortune of a Hypochondriac
    keywords: hypochondriac
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        item: #523 of 662
          id: genesis-28238
      author: Franke, Abby
       title: Rainy Day
        date: 2024
       words: 11
      flesch: 111
     summary: 157 12.5” x 6” Silk Screen Print Abby Franke Rainy Day
    keywords: day
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        item: #524 of 662
          id: genesis-28243
      author: Hostettler, Emily
       title: The Fan
        date: 2024
       words: 409
      flesch: 96
     summary: It didn’t help on humid nights. It smelled as if someone mistook a can of deet for a can of room freshener.
    keywords: fan
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        item: #525 of 662
          id: genesis-28244
      author: Edwards, Ayva
       title: Hoarder of Memories
        date: 2024
       words: 2485
      flesch: 82
     summary: Along with those are various Christmas cards from work, a few mini Thinking of You cards mailed to me by my grandma in South Carolina, Valentine’s Day cards, a ginkgo leaf (my favorite tree), a few fortunes from Panda Express, and the top of a donut box from when my current best friend, Karina, revealed to me that she was pregnant; Do-nut be mad, You’ll be a great auntie! They primarily consist of birth- day, graduation, and Christmas cards.
    keywords: cards; memories; ring; table; years
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        item: #526 of 662
          id: genesis-28245
      author: Awosika, Daniel
       title: Accentity (Accent Identity)
        date: 2024
       words: 752
      flesch: 66
     summary: Be it escaping from traditional customs that endanger the lives of your family or winning the visa lottery, a golden-ticket opportunity to rewrite the sins of the past and start life anew. We shop at the only few African markets around, dress up in our traditional clothing every Sunday for an inarguably African church service, pray for change in our dishonest Nigerian government, and hope our families in the motherland stay safe from random acts of violence.
    keywords: accent; life
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        item: #527 of 662
          id: genesis-28246
      author: Blackburn, Tegan
       title: Not Your Kind of Faggot (best of)
        date: 2024
       words: 1247
      flesch: 87
     summary: That word spat at short haired girls, girls in flannels, girls with set jaws and chiseled faces, whether they have held another girl in their eyes or not. Not me, the Barbie Princess on Halloween with her purple tulle dress and long golden hair.
    keywords: faggot; girl; word
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        item: #528 of 662
          id: genesis-28247
      author: Neier, Xavier
       title: How to be a Mexican American in Indiana
        date: 2024
       words: 646
      flesch: 81
     summary: Go ahead, take more classes, do more tutoring sessions, connect to other Hispanic clubs; do these things, even when you don’t fit in; you may never become fully Mexican, but you are still Mexican, and hey, being bilingual is a worthy skill. Get exposed as a fraud; take Spanish classes throughout high school; then take more classes at college; great, now you can read at a second-grade level; join the school’s Latino club, you’ll fit right in, right?
    keywords: face
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        item: #529 of 662
          id: genesis-28248
      author: Butler, Tyler
       title: Being Black
        date: 2024
       words: 2679
      flesch: 94
     summary: I was being exposed to not just music, but black music. If I had time I would hang out with them and we’d have fun for hours on end.
    keywords: mom; music; pete; time
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        item: #530 of 662
          id: genesis-28249
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: If...then
        date: 2024
       words: 592
      flesch: 83
     summary: I’m looking forward to spending days in the sunroom with you, so if you read this someday, think of me while you watch our Indiana sky turn every shade of pink, orange, and red in the mornings and the evenings. Make spinach dip and have friends over for Butler basketball games, watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” every Christmas Eve, and think of me when you see a mourning dove out the window or pick up a penny from the sidewalk.
    keywords: life
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        item: #531 of 662
          id: genesis-28250
      author: Rump, Alicia
       title: Rebuilding Home
        date: 2024
       words: 3625
      flesch: 87
     summary: A wooden plaque hangs in the hallway that reads ‘best dad’ with all of our names carved out below it. Maddie mumbles.
    keywords: dad; home; house; maddie; mom; screen
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        item: #532 of 662
          id: genesis-28251
      author: Barakat, Ruthie
       title: Miles Per Minute
        date: 2024
       words: 1673
      flesch: 91
     summary: She should have said everything wasn’t okay, that Aunt Emmy could save her – had to save her – that Sheriff Bill should take her away from Daddy. Aunt Emmy had asked, eyeballing Daddy from across the room.
    keywords: aunt; daddy; emmy
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        item: #533 of 662
          id: genesis-28252
      author: Weber, Kate
       title: Homecoming
        date: 2024
       words: 2222
      flesch: 90
     summary: They stand for a few more minutes, parking lot slush seeping into her tennis shoes. “Ben!”
    keywords: ben; kit; lot; way
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        item: #534 of 662
          id: genesis-28253
      author: Russell, Ava
       title: Lady in Thread
        date: 2024
       words: 5237
      flesch: 89
     summary: Linda’s dress greeted me from the corner of my sewing room, and every discouraging, intrusive thought that had managed to regenerate during work that day melted away once again. “Well, what is it?” “Linda.
    keywords: dress; floor; goodwill; hell; linda; mean; way; woman
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        item: #535 of 662
          id: genesis-28254
      author: Hoppel, Maggie
       title: Dear Lance
        date: 2024
       words: 1585
      flesch: 97
     summary: Maggie Hoppel Dear Lance 48 Dear Lance “You need to untie Stephen, and…” Lance trails off. Dear Lance, I’ll say.
    keywords: galton; lance; love
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        item: #536 of 662
          id: genesis-28255
      author: Gaines, Nya A.
       title: Identity
        date: 2024
       words: 3678
      flesch: 86
     summary: Yuka had more of a baby face, and her hair was cut into a bob. Yuka exclaimed.
    keywords: alex; day; haruki; japanese; mother; yuka
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        item: #537 of 662
          id: genesis-28256
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: How Still We See
        date: 2024
       words: 5181
      flesch: 87
     summary: Together, Kate, Tully, John, and Dr. Hanson brought baby Teddy into the world and into Tully’s waiting arms. Tell Ollie I’m on my way, and I can’t wait for him to show me his picture.” KATE
    keywords: baby; kate; mom; ollie; teddy; tully; turtle
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        item: #538 of 662
          id: genesis-28257
      author: Surdzial, Eliza
       title: How to Sell Your Body (and Survive It) (best of)
        date: 2024
       words: 825
      flesch: 93
     summary: Repeat to yourself that virginity and body count are just concepts meant to belittle women’s sexuality. By the end of your first year, have regulars.
    keywords: body; work
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        item: #539 of 662
          id: genesis-28258
      author: Sickmeier, Christian
       title: How to Dragon, for any curious fire-breathing, winged serpents out there
        date: 2024
       words: 744
      flesch: 99
     summary: Not because you enjoy it, of course, it’s just how dragons get off the ground. Dragons are always north of people.
    keywords: wings
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        item: #540 of 662
          id: genesis-28259
      author: Merida, Haley
       title: Spring
        date: 2024
       words: 2761
      flesch: 93
     summary: When I crawled into my mother’s bed after school that day, my mother brushed my hair from my face as I told her all about how Callie and I played at recess. It said Callie.
    keywords: callie; father; mother
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        item: #541 of 662
          id: genesis-28260
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Before We Forget
        date: 2024
       words: 2945
      flesch: 90
     summary: It wasn’t that Peter and Norman fought, but from the time he moved out for college and went into medicine, he and his dad had grown apart. Norman would ask Peter to decipher his notes, but Peter noticed they had become less legible.
    keywords: dad; norman; peter; thought; work
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        item: #542 of 662
          id: genesis-28277
      author: Hoppel, Maggie
       title: Do you still go down to Cicero Creek?
        date: 2024
       words: 190
      flesch: 95
     summary: Do you stuff your pockets with sparkly rocks your mom won’t begrudge past the porch? Do you get leeches and laugh secrets into discarded Diet Coke cans?
    keywords: rocks
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        item: #543 of 662
          id: genesis-28278
      author: Turgeon, Anna
       title: Cicadas
        date: 2024
       words: 114
      flesch: 85
     summary: 10 Background noise takes center stage When it’s least desired. The din of dusk drones on and crescendos with my empathy.
    keywords: tonight
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        item: #544 of 662
          id: genesis-28279
      author: Kraljic, Tomislav
       title: The Dahlia That Withered Away
        date: 2024
       words: 112
      flesch: 87
     summary: 15 the sable ragged curtains hang onto the stained metal grommets obscuring the clear windowpane that breathes life into this somber room. Tomislav Kraljic The Dahlia That Withered Away
    keywords: dahlia
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        item: #545 of 662
          id: genesis-28280
      author: Surdzial, Eliza
       title: Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017
        date: 2024
       words: 245
      flesch: 79
     summary: Deteriorated paint and damaged wallpaper drooping half-way down the wall, scattered lilies blooming, breathing in the water. Eliza Surdzial Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017 19 The home’s skin shed like a snake’s with every scratch and blue bruise carried away.
    keywords: water
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        item: #546 of 662
          id: genesis-28281
      author: Dixon, Saloni
       title: pondering a black girl’s* suicide
        date: 2024
       words: 113
      flesch: 93
     summary: Beneath the sky a garden blue stalks my name I forget this kind of fire strikes black bodies into shit Oh friends wild until we are free set us afire again. 25 don’t tell nobody she’s dancing on beer cans and shingles and bones don’t tell a soul have we gone crazy?
    keywords: sky
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        item: #547 of 662
          id: genesis-28282
      author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
       title: Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic
        date: 2024
       words: 198
      flesch: 98
     summary: Elizabeth Terhorst Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic 27 Blue Slapped across my back From times I was too young to remember.
    keywords: scrub
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        item: #548 of 662
          id: genesis-28283
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Inspiró
        date: 2024
       words: 236
      flesch: 69
     summary: Te lo diré… pues te digo que sí, que sí te mentí una y sólo una vez más por el miedo… La verdad es que sí… que sí… que sí fue por ti que me rasgué in two in two arrancando de mi corazón la rosa que entre lágrimas leíste … Y que sí que sí que sí lo pensé… en un futuro los dos, el comenzar de un cuento, el cuento sin fin Mario Stone Inspiró “Me gusta complacerte” – me encantó escucharte cantar, acariciarte y “Por favor” despertarme bajo tus miles de besos sobre mi rostro – Lagrimas compartidas, más que una, que dos… más que tres veces… Calmaste mis penas y me partiste en dos.
    keywords: que
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        item: #549 of 662
          id: genesis-28284
      author: Wilson, Ashley
       title: Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen
        date: 2024
       words: 93
      flesch: 94
     summary: Your flowing ink a river, bringing life to the words that sprout into sycamore groves. Ashley Wilson Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen
    keywords: words
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        item: #550 of 662
          id: genesis-28285
      author: Barakat, Ruthie
       title: vibrator? hardly know her.
        date: 2024
       words: 96
      flesch: 47
     summary: 42 i like raspberries on my fingertips, stained red and sweet my lips tingle from off-brand seltzer shoes shuffle across the floor, wood laminate underneath worn-out reeboks steps leading upstairs fingertips looking for a drawer to pull out too soon to tell it smells like purple and perfume luminescent, flickering like tongues and candlelight on top of it all, three is my lucky number, writing my name on your teeth a cat’s cradle in the bedroom, hot breath on a pillow not everything fast is battery-powered Ruthie Barakat vibrator? hardly know her.
    keywords: fingertips
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        item: #551 of 662
          id: genesis-28286
      author: Adie, Selma
       title: butterflies
        date: 2024
       words: 62
      flesch: 42
     summary: 44 the butterflies in my chest have been dormant and sleeping for ages but when you brushed up against me and knocked on my heart they awoke in a frenzy and threw themselves against my ribcage, fervent, aching to be set free and land gently on your face and adorn your gorgeous eyes and decorate your cheeks like freckles Selma Adie butterflies
    keywords: butterflies
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        item: #552 of 662
          id: genesis-28287
      author: Barakat, Ruthie
       title: DJ Khalid could never
        date: 2024
       words: 122
      flesch: 94
     summary: you open your mouth and i make that airplane sound, lovingly churned cream and sugar destined for your tongue we lay back, stomachs full, mouths sticky, sweet tooth still not satiated Ruthie Barakat DJ Khalid i want it sweet, so cold i can feel the nerves in my teeth, screaming through enamel you bite down, i tell you to go slowly – you’ll give yourself a bellyache.
    keywords: hands
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        item: #553 of 662
          id: genesis-28288
      author: Surdzial, Eliza
       title: Milk-White Bones
        date: 2024
       words: 184
      flesch: 85
     summary: I need me outside in to save your hands the strain from finger food staining to be easier to consume. Perhaps dried-up like the apple chips your mother would buy from Whole Foods for your Little League games.
    keywords: bones
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        item: #554 of 662
          id: genesis-28302
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill
        date: 2024
       words: 224
      flesch: 82
     summary: Until another match flickers and the next stick burns Nag Champa floating up into the air and over the graves Kayla McVeigh Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill Pocketing fragments of the infamous Dillinger fame How am I not to pause at the strange exchanges of closed eyes and bowed heads?
    keywords: silence
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        item: #555 of 662
          id: genesis-28303
      author: Platt, Trent
       title: My Father Grew Wings
        date: 2024
       words: 143
      flesch: 98
     summary: When you sway on swings with mulch chips in your nails, you two are there. Trent Platt My Father Grew Wings
    keywords: wings
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        item: #556 of 662
          id: genesis-28304
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: Lavender
        date: 2024
       words: 246
      flesch: 54
     summary: Then these images take shape to me, and I see the birds fly away into seas of oranges and blues, and far away the palette blends into thunderous and dark blacks—and whites, and rains then pour from above me, and I look down to see suddenly sand beneath my legs, slowly turning piebald from the worsening summer rains, and I take the sand within my hands and watch it spill from between my webbed and pure fingers, and the clumps where the rain had touched fall out so—displeasingly— but I gaze back up to find the sun dip beneath tumultuous and restless seas, and I go to take my breath and stand before I’m confronted by death and gasp— I see the bouquet before me wherefrom those lavender petals had fallen to the floor, flowers hanging withered from a vase just filled with freshly reclaimed rainwater. I stare, cross-legged on the floor in front of my bed, at this sky, where light beiges mix so beautifully with the dappled singes of the dried lavender leaves, almost like birds amidst clouds between me and the foreboding and soon night.
    keywords: lavender
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        item: #557 of 662
          id: genesis-28305
      author: Dixon, Saloni
       title: The Lynching
        date: 2024
       words: 98
      flesch: 102
     summary: This is limbo, life after death coming in hungry. Saloni Dixon The Lynching
    keywords: birth
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        item: #558 of 662
          id: genesis-28306
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Two Boars (best of)
        date: 2024
       words: 777
      flesch: 94
     summary: I keep reworking the same sections of long dark hair. Throwing softened strands of long dark hair behind my shoulders, I can now place such an everyday thing back on the shelf.
    keywords: bristles; hair
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        item: #559 of 662
          id: genesis-28307
      author: Adie, Selma
       title: I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls
        date: 2024
       words: 255
      flesch: 42
     summary: 74 The first time I learned what death was I saw body bags lined up roughly in the hallway of a mall There was nowhere else to put them Soon enough, the bags ran out, and then it was just bodies Bloodied and bruised and charred in weird ways There wasn’t enough press to cover every death So survivors wandered down the line, looking for someone they recognized A mother, a son, a brother For some, their face would turn suddenly And they’d throw themselves on a body, sobbing Others just looked solemn and sat by their friends’ remains A week later, I went to an American funeral for the first time I was eight and just starting to understand what it meant to die I was scared because I didn’t want to see a family friend’s dad Splayed and bloodied on the floor of our local shopping mall And I wondered where I’d go when I died With my people, blue and swollen, on a bloody linoleum floor Or in an empty room, in an elaborate casket, alone Selma Adie I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls
    keywords: body
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        item: #560 of 662
          id: genesis-28308
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: Fragmentation
        date: 2024
       words: 268
      flesch: 69
     summary: Then I dropped into the bed and saw the light around me grow dim, and instantly from day, it was—to night and the sheets were warm, and the water just right, and I closed my eyes; I hoped then, if I didn’t open them again, I wouldn’t see her leave. I felt her words cover my head and neck, bathing me, cleansing me, running cool from the tap until the water heater croaks to life and you hear whining in the pipes like the ringing of your ears, and of course, I didn’t hear what she said.
    keywords: day
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        item: #561 of 662
          id: genesis-28309
      author: Adedipe, Zion O.
       title: Shackles to Spectacles
        date: 2024
       words: 212
      flesch: 62
     summary: 77 Outcries from the oppressive realms, where shadows weep, A realm where serpents are slain but villains are made, In our dystopian misery, Black warriors arise asserting the essence of our defi- ance, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Bound in blood, the repercussion of an attack. Voices echoing and roaring vengeance, but the bloody waxen pagans believed us to be Black swans, These same Black swans hunted their heads, murdered thousands of their crowned waxen pagans, Turning their houses to coffins and taking their recompenses into ashes, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Terror prowling at their spirits, but their Gods conquered,
    keywords: waxen
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        item: #562 of 662
          id: genesis-28310
      author: Wilson, Ashley
       title: Incantation for the end of pain
        date: 2024
       words: 108
      flesch: 98
     summary: Ashley Wilson Incantation for the end of pain Take this, all sinew and stretch; tie the strands of my muscles to wicked steeds.
    keywords: limb
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        item: #563 of 662
          id: genesis-28311
      author: Wilson, Ashley
       title: The Righteous
        date: 2024
       words: 222
      flesch: 94
     summary: We perched there, perfect rows of deep blue polos and pressed khakis. I would pick the dried dribbles of candle wax from the pew till my fingers turned raw, anything to distract from the drone of a sermon not meant for me.
    keywords: shoulders
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        item: #564 of 662
          id: genesis-28312
      author: Dobson, Elise
       title: The Worship of Woman
        date: 2024
       words: 148
      flesch: 84
     summary: I am from the font of sickly sweet honey and rose petal thorns, for I am baptized in the generational rage of Eve. I am from the wooden pews in the Catholic Church where the scripture is shov- eled down the raw throats of non-believers like the Eucharist, and no amount of church wine could wash the taste out of my mouth.
    keywords: woman
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        item: #565 of 662
          id: genesis-28314
      author: Wilhelm, Raeya
       title: Refurbished Doll
        date: 2024
       words: 91
      flesch: 92
     summary: Do we glue the dead leaves to the winter tree and pretend they never died? Raeya Wilhelm Refurbished Doll Most efforts are in vain.
    keywords: doll
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        item: #566 of 662
          id: genesis-28315
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Grey Hair
        date: 2024
       words: 167
      flesch: 94
     summary: A gentleness that comes from the aging of dark hair to a softened grey. Daily surprises are offered within a lifetime.
    keywords: grey
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        item: #567 of 662
          id: genesis-28316
      author: Hunsader, Clayton
       title: a zombie
        date: 2024
       words: 191
      flesch: 72
     summary: as more became infected, the protected passively grew from natural progression. little larvae are always attracted to them, the stench of decay follows dilapidated bone structures and liquified internal organs.
    keywords: zombie
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        item: #568 of 662
          id: genesis-28317
      author: Cassetty, Christopher
       title: Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance
        date: 2024
       words: 96
      flesch: 54
     summary: 105 You were even more beautiful with those manic eyes, so bright and refulgent, I never dared think a more beautiful grey, and even when you stared at me with such distaste and— hate, I couldn’t help, in frustration, but love you, and I still do, though I haven’t met with your soul in quite some time; it makes me wonder— was it ever just your eyes, or the damaged soul I saw inside, that made me love you more than I ever thought to love myself. Christopher Cassetty Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance
    keywords: soul
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        item: #569 of 662
          id: genesis-28318
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: Your Dying
        date: 2024
       words: 191
      flesch: 70
     summary: 106 The last time I saw you alive, death was creeping up your throat, taking you from the inside out. It didn’t steal you quietly in the night, but suffocated you slowly, taunting you, offering you peace for the briefest of seconds before tightening its grip around your throat, causing you to sit up and cry in pain.
    keywords: dying
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        item: #570 of 662
          id: genesis-28319
      author: Surdzial, Eliza
       title: Apology for a Dissociative State of Mind
        date: 2024
       words: 165
      flesch: 87
     summary: You’re a robot wearing human skin, clouded eyes and automated dances. The End’s guttural scream fallen silent on silly straw ears.
    keywords: home
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        item: #571 of 662
          id: genesis-28320
      author: Kluger, Alexandra
       title: Send to Postal Code: 184209
        date: 2024
       words: 210
      flesch: 83
     summary: I am from strange looking letters; mainly symbols because “letters” are unrecognizable. 112 I am from naked birch trees, that blend in with the gray skies seamlessly.
    keywords: sip
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        item: #572 of 662
          id: genesis-28321
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Fair Winds and Following Seas
        date: 2024
       words: 169
      flesch: -67
     summary: 114 A maritime phrase for wishing farewell and a safe voyage If goodbyes bleed, so be it Let them chum the waters calling wide-mouthed bullhead sharks Circling blackened seas Fins like sails cutting through the push and pull of tides Let them feed Tooth by tooth, scissoring through flesh Let ships be called to the edge of the world Sinking through deeper shades of navy they are returned Within the depths that keep creatures with little use for eyes If goodbyes cry, have them sing out with shorebirds Let them sound over waves crashing along coastal cliffs that hold speckled eggs Glaucous-winged gulls Flapping above choppy waters, flight caught in stirring winds and skies Let us cry Wing by wing, rising above currents Let tides tumble along the stretches of shoreline Crushing dark green glass, smoothing discarded Heineken bottles In waves, all things exist somewhere between flotsam and found And goodbyes are just tradition for all that lives at sea Kayla McVeigh Fair Winds and Following Seas
    keywords: goodbyes
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        item: #573 of 662
          id: genesis-28322
      author: Dixon, Saloni
       title: No Dinner
        date: 2024
       words: 152
      flesch: 93
     summary: clogging up rivers, muffling jambalaya rhythms riding sweet bass strings, and I hear centuries carcasses of the dancing drums. your belly ready to sail icy seas like a torn page from a book.
    keywords: eat
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        item: #574 of 662
          id: genesis-28323
      author: Kluger, Alexandra
       title: Identity Crisis
        date: 2024
       words: 158
      flesch: 76
     summary: I am not the composition of art— encased and displayed, framed in golden petals that are only seen in my strands of blonde. Nor am I the purity of stainless snow baptist robes be to Law, rather by the Crimson Blood that cleaned me clear.
    keywords: art
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        item: #575 of 662
          id: genesis-28324
      author: Adie, Selma
       title: The Cradle
        date: 2024
       words: 203
      flesch: 90
     summary: Sometimes I would ask for color In the only way I knew how I would scream, and the world Would only scream back When I grew older, they gave me Two colors, as a reward I got blue, for being good And green, for staying quiet I got hungry, I got tired It gave me colors to shut me up Paints in purple and pink I couldn’t eat the colors Couldn’t sleep on them, either
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          id: genesis-28325
      author: Fee, Bee
       title: to have and to hold
        date: 2024
       words: 155
      flesch: 60
     summary: 139 Slice through the skin like a sharpened knife against paper Clutch the dampened couch cushions as pain grits teeth Suck air through a clenched jaw The pain sears and sizzles at the edge of my vision Fragmented glimpses of you Blink Tears drip from eyes I search for your eyes You have none Stab at the body blindly as if you are simply a piece of flesh An empty vessel tossed aside for the buzzards and vultures alike Search for Humanity In this moment of despair, I plead for mercy Call their name Please Do not answer Claw with nails, tear through tissue and muscle right down to the bone Crack ribs Pluck out their still-beating heart with talons A claw machine, your hand dangles and sways Mocking What you came for has been found – my heart was only ever yours: to have and to hold.
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          id: genesis-28326
      author: Seigel, Sarah
       title: The Process of Healing
        date: 2024
       words: 221
      flesch: 91
     summary: Sarah Seigel The Process of Healing She tells herself that this life is so sweet, feeling the faint way her heart beats, pretending that she does not lie down in defeat, her mother asks her when she will eat.
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          id: genesis-28327
      author: Hunsader, Clayton
       title: How to Open a Can of Nothing.
        date: 2024
       words: 174
      flesch: 78
     summary: Everything exists strictly within observation, but that begs the question What’s observing it? Clayton Hunsader How to Open a Can of Nothing. The only guarantee for life is Death.
    keywords: light
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        item: #579 of 662
          id: genesis-28328
      author: Miller, Jared
       title: Sign Crushes Motorist
        date: 2024
       words: 185
      flesch: 9
     summary: 152 I had a dream about you the night before my birthday we were in my bed our legs were where our heads should’ve been I was on top of you your shirt was off I held you like a vice around your chest so tight I feared cracking your ribs we weren’t having sex that was never the intention we were talking whispering giggling I gave you kisses on your naked shoulder you were not something won or conquered you were camaraderie personified a person who I both saw myself in and admired with my whole being our hearts beat against one another each desperately hoping to break out of their respective cages to become a singular atom at once it was like what being in love is like it felt like being home it was over quick even for a dream, it was a quick and blurry flash still the brief vignette stuck in my head I told you about it the next morning the morning of my birthday I can’t remember what you said Jared Miller Sign Crushes Motorist
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        item: #580 of 662
          id: genesis-28329
      author: Stone, Mario
       title: Oración
        date: 2024
       words: 102
      flesch: 37
     summary: aún quedan conmigo cada recuerdo mil tesoros mil latidos implacables- en mi cofre suma una cosecha de flores, cada flor compartida es tuya – las bañe con gotas de sol el recuerdo de tus ojos tu sonrisa, tu linda amor Mario Stone Oración 154 Por favor, que cada lagrima sea una petición a Tu bendito querer, que cada vez que digo su nombre sea un pedido de mi alma – Flor del cielo, mátame anhelo morir por resucitar recordando el primer beso tan natural de cada amanecer- En convulsiones estoy, las lagrimas quemando, sudando espinas en mis mejillas- sobre mi rostro un asfixio divino.
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        item: #581 of 662
          id: genesis-28330
      author: McVeigh, Kayla
       title: Gives life
        date: 2024
       words: 124
      flesch: 84
     summary: He is a blinding flash of light “And if I made you bleed?” he taunts Ribbons of blood coil around him I pull him closer to the surface His light crackles Static sparks sting my hands My hair fades My eyes cloud over My joints and bones resist me The line snaps The fish says: “Would sleep be so bad after a time of unrest?” Kayla McVeigh Gives life 155 Glimmering scales of lapis lazuli
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        item: #582 of 662
          id: genesis-28331
      author: Kluger, Alexandra
       title: Kiln Kind of Love
        date: 2024
       words: 117
      flesch: 95
     summary: Alexandra Kluger Kiln Kind of Love 156 Perhaps he saw me as dry clay.
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        item: #583 of 662
          id: genesis-28333
      author: Barakat, Ruthie
       title: back when the world was within walking distance,
        date: 2024
       words: 145
      flesch: 81
     summary: with tiny fists unafraid to meet rusted wire fence. must have gone through thousands of boxes of blueberry toaster strudel. dirt angels formed beside a baseball dugout, splayed arms and legs moved in unison, blue skies above the neighborhood.
    keywords: chlorine
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        item: #584 of 662
          id: genesis-28934
      author: Evans, Bailey; Witham, Eli
       title: Letter from the Editors
        date: 2025
       words: 268
      flesch: 66
     summary: We want to thank all of our readers, who have carried issues of genesis around campus in backpacks and tote bags or gifted copies to their friends and classmates. We are grateful for all of our contributors and editors who emphasize this need for human expression and understanding.
    keywords: issue
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        item: #585 of 662
          id: genesis-28935
      author: Miller, Ginger
       title: 꿀 생강 (Honey Ginger)
        date: 2025
       words: 15
      flesch: 101
     summary: 8 13” x 16” Intaglio Print with Chine Collé Ginger Miller 꿀 생강 (Honey Ginger)
    keywords: ginger
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        item: #586 of 662
          id: genesis-28936
      author: Bozinovski, Victoria
       title: I go there
        date: 2025
       words: 224
      flesch: 90
     summary: Smells of bleached tropical shores, Lapping blue foam over briny grains, Beading sweat that tastes like the sea, I go there. 9 When day favors gloom Both in the pallid tufts of condensed cloud
    keywords: eyes
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        item: #587 of 662
          id: genesis-28937
      author: Darden, Leah
       title: In the Haze
        date: 2025
       words: 11
      flesch: 85
     summary: ” Digital Photography Leah Darden In the Haze 11 24” x 36
    keywords: haze
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        item: #588 of 662
          id: genesis-28938
      author: Weaver, Gabriella
       title: Fighting Your Memory
        date: 2025
       words: 1641
      flesch: 92
     summary: Though I think that type of big sister would have remembered more than I do. I wasn’t very old when Mom sat me down and told me that I would soon be a big sister.
    keywords: mom; sister
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        item: #589 of 662
          id: genesis-28939
      author: Snelwar, Valerie
       title: Dilapidated Mountaineer’s Cabinet
        date: 2025
       words: 12
      flesch: 46
     summary: 16 18” x 24” Ballpoint Pen Valerie Snelwar Dilapidated Mountaineer’s Cabinet
    keywords: cabinet
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        item: #590 of 662
          id: genesis-28940
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: Genetics
        date: 2025
       words: 99
      flesch: 87
     summary: A mother and daughter, tethered like hot air balloons by the strongest of cords, soon to be connected by only the genes we share. Will my hazel eyes win out over your father’s brilliant blue? You rest, head down, tiny feet pressed in my ribs, the roo to my kanga, stealing my breath before you even arrive.
    keywords: father
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        item: #591 of 662
          id: genesis-28941
      author: Miller, Levi
       title: Pineapple Chunks
        date: 2025
       words: 3400
      flesch: 93
     summary: Patrick shrugs and says, “I thought you’d be too tired for a strip club.” The only thing that stopped Link from slamming the door on Patrick’s sad face was the energy it would take.
    keywords: car; dog; head; joey; link; patrick
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        item: #592 of 662
          id: genesis-28942
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: From Seeing Lisa Dying
        date: 2025
       words: 2381
      flesch: 94
     summary: Lisa found a pot shaped like a snail and thought of me. Lisa called me tonight.
    keywords: day; laugh; lisa; woman
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        item: #593 of 662
          id: genesis-28943
      author: Smith, Robert
       title: Pictures of Lily
        date: 2025
       words: 13
      flesch: 89
     summary: 34 30” x 40” Mixed Media on Canvas Robert Smith Pictures of Lily
    keywords: lily
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        item: #594 of 662
          id: genesis-28944
      author: Guzman, Dayanara
       title: Threads of Peace
        date: 2025
       words: 156
      flesch: 92
     summary: Biting into caramel drizzled apples, peace rushes to my cheeks. Placing its fingers on ivory keys, peace plays Chopin’s Nocturnes.
    keywords: peace
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        item: #595 of 662
          id: genesis-28945
      author: Nettum, Signe
       title: My Mother’s Dirt Cake
        date: 2025
       words: 568
      flesch: 86
     summary: Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar in a bowl. • 32 ounces chocolate sandwich cookies with creme filling - Oreos are synonymous with the concept of cookie sandwiches and that is for a valid reason.
    keywords: cream
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        item: #596 of 662
          id: genesis-28946
      author: Cunningham, Monica
       title: Art is Having Fun
        date: 2025
       words: 12
      flesch: 81
     summary: 38 12” x 24” Oil Paint Monica Cunningham Art is Having Fun
    keywords: fun
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        item: #597 of 662
          id: genesis-28947
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: Body Art
        date: 2025
       words: 95
      flesch: 95
     summary: Dots of chicken pox scars mark my cheek and jaw. A canvas of scar tissue, created over time and catching the fade.
    keywords: line
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        item: #598 of 662
          id: genesis-28948
      author: Neier, Xavier
       title: WANTED ADS
        date: 2025
       words: 418
      flesch: 63
     summary: Xavier Neier WANTED ADS 41 Additional requirements include: • Texting and Calling 24/7 (Prepare for 2:00AM Panic Attacks) • Spiraling Conversations on Zillow Apartments • Exploration for the Best Indianapolis Restaurants for Dates ($20 per Meal Limit) • Building Pillow Forts with Emotional Security Blankets • Broken Cars that I Can Fix (Wheels Only) Modest physical contact (handholding, resting on each other, prolonged eye-con- tact) is considered long-term commitment. 4040 WANTED: Biological Mother (Full-time position only)* Single, mid-twenties man seeks biological mother.
    keywords: mother; therapy
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        item: #599 of 662
          id: genesis-28949
      author: Tipton, Emile
       title: The Human Heart Hasn’t Changed
        date: 2025
       words: 19
      flesch: 76
     summary: 42 22” x 30” Copper Plate Triptychs Etching Printed on Paper Emile Tipton The Human Heart Hasn’t Changed
    keywords: tipton
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        item: #600 of 662
          id: genesis-28950
      author: Rump, Alicia
       title: A Fine Line
        date: 2025
       words: 5240
      flesch: 95
     summary: What did they think of Ryan wrestling with his dad to keep him from the wheel, now that his siblings were scared and obedient in the backseat? But so was Alex’s comment that Ryan should fuck off back to Bloomington, that once their mom arrived their family didn’t need him.
    keywords: alex; dad; max; ryan; time
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        item: #601 of 662
          id: genesis-28951
      author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
       title: Teenagers
        date: 2025
       words: 320
      flesch: 93
     summary: I’m left with bleeding nubs, broken gums and eyebags your favorite color. I think we forgot that teen girls don’t get along especially when you force a wolf into Bo Peep’s clothing.
    keywords: teenager
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        item: #602 of 662
          id: genesis-28952
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: Created Equal
        date: 2025
       words: 90
      flesch: 77
     summary: Our bodies once revered, once worshipped, gutted like today’s fresh catch on the news, social media, the Congressional floor. Kim Kile Created Equal
    keywords: floor
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        item: #603 of 662
          id: genesis-28953
      author: Smith, Robert
       title: Marina
        date: 2025
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: 58 16” x 20” Graphite Pencil Robert Smith Marina
    keywords: marina
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        item: #604 of 662
          id: genesis-28954
      author: Bertram, Ashley Noelle
       title: The Modern Woman
        date: 2025
       words: 2520
      flesch: 79
     summary: It wouldn’t be until I was nearly 30 years old that I learned that plenty of other millennial women had felt the same way, or that my grandma, in all her anger, felt it too. Gloria shares a bold monologue about the societal expectations against women, including this line: “You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.”
    keywords: family; gloria; grandma; women
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        item: #605 of 662
          id: genesis-28955
      author: Dobson, Elise
       title: In the Shadow of Magdalene
        date: 2025
       words: 117
      flesch: 84
     summary: Choral hymns stink of Catholic wraith, breath that reeks of poor self restraint. The Virgin Mary carries latex love, a sanitized and sultry slut.
    keywords: father
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        item: #606 of 662
          id: genesis-28956
      author: Bertram, Ashley Noelle
       title: Pretty Ladies Shouldn’t Cry
        date: 2025
       words: 179
      flesch: 86
     summary: I guess I’m not a pretty lady because tears pour heavy in the darkness, where no one can see to say such stupid things to me; where I swear to the gods and the seas that I’m over their shit, but I still love everything they have blessed me with just to spite them. You think such delicate works of art shouldn’t depict the realities of humanity— that all things in this life don’t, in fact, suffer beautifully?
    keywords: piece
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        item: #607 of 662
          id: genesis-28957
      author: Miller, Ginger
       title: Act Like a Lady
        date: 2025
       words: 14
      flesch: 95
     summary: 67 28” x 19” Hardground Etching with Aquatint Ginger Miller Act Like a Lady
    keywords: lady
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        item: #608 of 662
          id: genesis-28958
      author: Nigh, Mack
       title: In the Gales I See My Fate
        date: 2025
       words: 1700
      flesch: 95
     summary: I will not try to predict which ones will be happy to find stability, and which ones will be so used to the wind that, the second they land on safe ground, they will panic and shriek and plead to not be left there. And I love you, earth beneath me, the being I did not know I needed.
    keywords: ground; wind
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        item: #609 of 662
          id: genesis-28959
      author: Jones, Caedence
       title: 7 Stages
        date: 2025
       words: 239
      flesch: 80
     summary: 7272 I. Breathe your first breath—inhale life; Open your eyes to a big, bright world, II. Claim your first step with a steady stomp, & another & another & another.
    keywords: mother
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        item: #610 of 662
          id: genesis-28960
      author: Chaifetz, Isaac
       title: The Danse Macabre (best of)
        date: 2025
       words: 10
      flesch: 95
     summary: 74 Digital Isaac Chaifetz The Danse Macabre - Best of Art -
    keywords: art
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        item: #611 of 662
          id: genesis-28961
      author: Bevan, Ellie
       title: Masque of the Red Death
        date: 2025
       words: 14
      flesch: 89
     summary: 104 12” x 18” Mixed Media Collage Ellie Bevan Masque of the Red Death
    keywords: death
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        item: #612 of 662
          id: genesis-28962
      author: Neier, Xavier
       title: Final Affairs from a Patient Suffering a Quarter-Life Crisis
        date: 2025
       words: 698
      flesch: 77
     summary: For the green totes that hold baby clothes, old Mexican blankets, and my birth mother’s po- laroid picture, please keep them safe and tucked away. My parents have plenty of money and my brothers do not need it.
    keywords: ashes; money
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        item: #613 of 662
          id: genesis-28963
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Your Land
        date: 2025
       words: 156
      flesch: 92
     summary: Advocate for the muzzled congregates, degenerates, Miscreants; the poor, confused, brainwashed kids. Maybe they Won’t have to, but maybe that’s wishful thinking.
    keywords: land
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        item: #614 of 662
          id: genesis-28964
      author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
       title: Sammy
        date: 2025
       words: 833
      flesch: 88
     summary: For years, in the middle of summer when the nauseous heat clung to the undersides of our bones, our mother’s brother would come to visit. As children, he promised her and I that as long as we stood with God in our hearts and him in our hands, we’d never fall.
    keywords: child; mother
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        item: #615 of 662
          id: genesis-28965
      author: Smith, Robert
       title: Totem for the Working Man
        date: 2025
       words: 14
      flesch: 89
     summary: 110 Robert Smith 40” x 60” Oil on Canvas Totem for the Working Man
    keywords: man
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        item: #616 of 662
          id: genesis-28966
      author: McNeil, Thomas
       title: Marlboro Reds
        date: 2025
       words: 196
      flesch: 82
     summary: No more for me the ashy asses, confetti sprinkles of white and gray onto the floor of my green Corolla littered with empty Red Bull cans. Wondering what to do on rainy days, when I run away and hide.
    keywords: kid
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        item: #617 of 662
          id: genesis-28967
      author: Garris, Hayden
       title: Dinner at Fabbro’s
        date: 2025
       words: 3976
      flesch: 97
     summary: Hank nodded without making eye contact. Hank always stood outside, begging for money with a Best Dad Ever coffee mug.
    keywords: day; eyes; fabbro; hank; street; taylor
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        item: #618 of 662
          id: genesis-28968
      author: Kile, Kim
       title: Generations
        date: 2025
       words: 171
      flesch: 74
     summary: The hallucinations start before your words are gone, stinging accusations of affairs and lies, paranoid visions of being followed by secret agents, hate-filled rants you scream but don’t recall, your love-filled marriage a distant memory while Alzheimer’s sprouts, blocking love. Golf shirts line the same wall, a pastel rainbow of tags hanging from unworn sleeves, saved for a someday that never comes, the golf courses never played again, as the roots of the disease take hold.
    keywords: love
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        item: #619 of 662
          id: genesis-28969
      author: Byrd, Daylen
       title: Anointed
        date: 2025
       words: 9
      flesch: 94
     summary: 124 Daylen Byrd 7” x 5” Chalk Pastel Anointed
    keywords: pastel
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        item: #620 of 662
          id: genesis-28970
      author: Hembree, Eris
       title: Southern Sweet
        date: 2025
       words: 110
      flesch: 79
     summary: Ever present on my back Seen as the heat of the Southern God’s gaze My skin burns a sinner’s red A carcinogenic weight of judgment Spreads beneath my peeling shell It’s corruption has long since set in Mold creeps across the pitcher’s surface 125125 A pitcher of black tea Bitter but refreshing Six spoons of sugar Tastes so saccharine I drank so deeply Of that Southern sweet tea
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          id: genesis-28971
      author: Fee, Dex
       title: What the Bourbon Does to Him
        date: 2025
       words: 160
      flesch: 87
     summary: One day, he took a swig every time he passed the bourbon, running laps around the kitchen island for an excuse to circle back. Dex Fee What the Bourbon Does to Him
    keywords: bourbon
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          id: genesis-28972
      author: Taylor, Kira
       title: Anomaly
        date: 2025
       words: 9
      flesch: 75
     summary: 127 Kira Taylor 12” x 18” Hardground Etching Anomaly
    keywords: anomaly
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        item: #623 of 662
          id: genesis-28973
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: An Alleged Asexual’s 20-Step Routine (best of)
        date: 2025
       words: 3014
      flesch: 90
     summary: Imagine Fantasy Partner. Fantasy Partner needs no introduction.
    keywords: fantasy; love; partner; shame
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          id: genesis-28974
      author: Howe, Elise
       title: Sister Golden Hair
        date: 2025
       words: 11
      flesch: 108
     summary: x 14” Oil Paint Elise Howe Sister Golden Hair 137 14”
    keywords: hair
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          id: genesis-28975
      author: Saorrono, Elena
       title: Marian
        date: 2025
       words: 217
      flesch: 56
     summary: The day you appear before my clouded gaze Marian, please hear me cry for you Marian, demand the seas to be merciful, Marian Eins, zwei, drei, vier, I count how I call you, Marian The waters jolt and tug this ship I tumble and topple, waiting for you Above the raging seas, you softly drift I am fearful, for my end is not yet due Not without you, Marian, cease these waters Thalassa has gripped me, now oblivion below here My final breath before plunging into the ocean Zieh mich aus dem Meer Du bist mein Schutzengel, so schön Ich liebe dich, Marian Marian, the sea extinguishes my essence, Marian Eins, zwei, drei, vier, I count how I call you, Marian You deny the depths of my soul My altar, my saint, my grace from the waves In the sea of pouring rain Beneath the sheet of clouds I reach for you, pray with no shame Your absence plummets me further down Please sense my desperation, Marian To the heavens, I wish to the stars To the seas, I curse to the waves I crave the day you stand near and not afar
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          id: genesis-28976
      author: Park, Isabella
       title: Nightly Comparison
        date: 2025
       words: 72
      flesch: 84
     summary: Covertly stuck between zipper clasps and tight french braids. 139139 He is lost on lightless new moon nights.
    keywords: wish
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          id: genesis-28977
      author: Hembree, Eris
       title: Ribcage
        date: 2025
       words: 160
      flesch: 80
     summary: To love is to be consumed To be loved is to consume We are an ouroboros loving flesh consuming loving flesh Breaking free from that cage That sits in our chest Eris Hembree Ribcage 140140 My heart sits in a cage of flesh and bone It sits enshrined in the center of my chest Trapped within is both love and pain equally sown All I am is hidden under my dress To find me is a brutal affair A cruel act of carnage borne of care
    keywords: flesh
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          id: genesis-28978
      author: Smith, Robert
       title: Pride and Joy
        date: 2025
       words: 12
      flesch: 103
     summary: 141 24” x 24” Oil on Panel Robert Smith Pride and Joy
    keywords: joy
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        item: #629 of 662
          id: genesis-28979
      author: Pickett, Sam
       title: Call Us When You Need Us
        date: 2025
       words: 1409
      flesch: 102
     summary: I look at myself and dad reflected in a big wall-mounted Sony tv from the mid 2000s as Miss Betty says, “Hold on, hold on, John,” and Mr. John grunts and breathes. Miss Betty asks Mr. John.
    keywords: dad; john
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        item: #630 of 662
          id: genesis-28980
      author: McCollum, Corlan
       title: Heart of Ohio
        date: 2025
       words: 121
      flesch: 88
     summary: Welcome, travelers from distant lands, to the bleeding Heart of Ohio! 147147 Welcome, one and all, to the Heart of Ohio!
    keywords: ohio
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        item: #631 of 662
          id: genesis-28981
      author: Chimenti, Joe
       title: Chair 01
        date: 2025
       words: 15
      flesch: 67
     summary: 148 149 Traditional Wood Joinery Cherry Wood with Danish Oil Finish Joe Chimenti Chair 01
    keywords: wood
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        item: #632 of 662
          id: genesis-28982
      author: Schleppenbach, Amy
       title: Along the Perforations
        date: 2025
       words: 1401
      flesch: 79
     summary: She confirmed this with the librarian who had honestly wanted to see if I would read it when I finished my Scholastic reading challenge early then had filled in more books on the back of the page, hoping for extra points for our class to win the pizza party. I should have read more books.
    keywords: books; typewriter; writing
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        item: #633 of 662
          id: genesis-28983
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: Doomsday
        date: 2025
       words: 914
      flesch: 81
     summary: Beaches we once loved will no longer exist for tiny feet to skip through; I will not watch children who are not our own crash through foamy waves and dig for seashells while I dig a grave. 154154 As the Sun falls behind the yew tree
    keywords: sun; world
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        item: #634 of 662
          id: genesis-28984
      author: Cremeans, Emma
       title: Family
        date: 2025
       words: 6
      flesch: 45
     summary: 158 Digital Painting Emma Cremeans Family
    keywords: family
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        item: #635 of 662
          id: genesis-28985
      author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
       title: Fatal Development
        date: 2025
       words: 176
      flesch: 95
     summary: Candy apple cheeks. Plucked chicken thighs.
    keywords: days
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        item: #636 of 662
          id: genesis-28986
      author: Garris, Hayden
       title: Second Place
        date: 2025
       words: 197
      flesch: 97
     summary: A wall between us, where fissures hide behind lines of neat prose, typed above idyllic photos of you in some faraway fairyland, where money, your currency for love, buys you the life you always dreamed of. Is love, like money, a kind of greed?
    keywords: love
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        item: #637 of 662
          id: genesis-28987
      author: Vega, Ashley
       title: Grieving in Advance
        date: 2025
       words: 1202
      flesch: 84
     summary: Eventually, they caught on, but there were definitely kids who thought I was lying or joking around about that for a while. Up to this point, his health had been fine, but this was when alarming things started to happen.
    keywords: dad; world
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        item: #638 of 662
          id: genesis-28988
      author: Montanez, Sarah
       title: Mend
        date: 2025
       words: 19
      flesch: 71
     summary: 165 8” x 8” Found Image, Archival Inkjet Print on Habotai Silk, Embroidery Floss, Embroidery Hoop Sarah Montanez Mend
    keywords: embroidery
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        item: #639 of 662
          id: genesis-28989
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: The Sleepwriter
        date: 2025
       words: 5485
      flesch: 92
     summary: Imagination is a blessing and a curse, if Ellis believed in blessings. She argued that they counted anyway, and she and Ellis needed all the luck they could get.
    keywords: ellis; face; gabriel; look; mccavy; typewriter
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        item: #640 of 662
          id: genesis-28990
      author: Stewart, Anthony
       title: Behind the Gate
        date: 2025
       words: 11
      flesch: 72
     summary: 182 16” x 20” Graphite Pencil Anthony Stewart Behind the Gate
    keywords: gate
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        item: #641 of 662
          id: genesis-28991
      author: Garris, Hayden
       title: Duality
        date: 2025
       words: 98
      flesch: 90
     summary: One half my agent of despair and my other whose role is repair. 183183 Hayden Garris I am two voices alone in the night, a crescendo of whispers with a double entwined.
    keywords: garris
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        item: #642 of 662
          id: genesis-28992
      author: Guzman, Dayanara
       title: Muñeca
        date: 2025
       words: 158
      flesch: 89
     summary: Pristine princess with a porcelain face dressed head to toe in rose and gold. Dayanara Guzman Muñeca
    keywords: place
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        item: #643 of 662
          id: genesis-28993
      author: Smith, Robert
       title: Annie
        date: 2025
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: 185 18” x 24” Graphite Pencil Robert Smith Annie
    keywords: annie
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        item: #644 of 662
          id: genesis-28994
      author: Dash, Shyama Prasad
       title: The Midnight Flight
        date: 2025
       words: 771
      flesch: 84
     summary: The way he handed me item after item to pack into the suitcases, how he folded my clothes with the care of someone piecing together something already falling apart, his silence at dinner, the unspoken things weighed heavier than words. Before I left, Baba had been standing by the door, one hand tightly gripping onto the frame as if holding himself up, the other dangling loosely by his side.
    keywords: baba; leaving
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        item: #645 of 662
          id: genesis-28995
      author: Kamisetti, Eswar Prabhath
       title: DUEL AT DAWN
        date: 2025
       words: 8
      flesch: 61
     summary: 188 Photograph Eswar Prabhath Kamisetti DUEL AT DAWN
    keywords: dawn
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        item: #646 of 662
          id: genesis-28997
      author: Guzman, Dayanara
       title: Gold Cross Chain
        date: 2025
       words: 140
      flesch: 98
     summary: Dayanara Guzman Gold Cross Chain Does it remind you of mine after a hit or two?
    keywords: mind
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        item: #647 of 662
          id: genesis-28998
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: love languages
        date: 2025
       words: 99
      flesch: 88
     summary: i. gifting a carcass; a hound’s loudest love language shamed, diminutive ii. whining for hours, your dead silence. Evan Allee love languages
    keywords: love
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        item: #648 of 662
          id: genesis-28999
      author: Sturgeon, Sophia
       title: Weightless
        date: 2025
       words: 11
      flesch: 72
     summary: 191 24” x 36” Acrylic on Stretched Canvas Sophia Sturgeon Weightless
    keywords: weightless
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        item: #649 of 662
          id: genesis-29000
      author: Saorrono, Elena
       title: Floodland
        date: 2025
       words: 214
      flesch: 61
     summary: This is the way it was Night reflecting up from the shimmering asphalt Firing glints of embers back into crystal clear windows In the passenger’s eyes, all was calm Driving through the terror was a different story “No harm will come your way” No harm does not make the driver any calmer White knuckles gripping the wheel, Steering the two into the dreary, drenched oblivion With no qualms other than why “Any time, just raise your arms above the flood”
    keywords: way
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        item: #650 of 662
          id: genesis-29001
      author: Blackburn, Tegan
       title: (I) Wanted (My D)ad
        date: 2025
       words: 578
      flesch: 70
     summary: Take care not to mistake memories with replacement father for former father. WANTED: Replacement Father (full-time)* Autistic, genderqueer twenty-something seeks replacement father for the hol- lowed out, still-warm crater the original left behind.
    keywords: father; job
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        item: #651 of 662
          id: genesis-29002
      author: Cremeans, Emma
       title: Gossip
        date: 2025
       words: 6
      flesch: 45
     summary: 195 Digital Painting Emma Cremeans Gossip
    keywords: emma
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        item: #652 of 662
          id: genesis-29004
      author: Miller, Levi
       title: Punk Was Dead
        date: 2025
       words: 4941
      flesch: 98
     summary: BLAKE’S ROOM IN HER APARTMENT — AFTER MIDNIGHT BLAKE DEAN (23 years old, cynical journalist bent on finding truth over sen- sation, and facts over superstition) wakes up in her bed, a sleeping bag on an air mattress. ASTER BLAKE (CONT’D)
    keywords: aster; blake; cont’d; int; melissa; room; shawn; tin
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        item: #653 of 662
          id: genesis-29005
      author: Weber, Maura
       title: The Vapor
        date: 2025
       words: 422
      flesch: 98
     summary: We are vapor, gasps of hot air and choked curses. Maura Weber The Vapor
    keywords: slip
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        item: #654 of 662
          id: genesis-29006
      author: Chastain, Jaylee
       title: Hopeless Songs to the Solar System
        date: 2025
       words: 715
      flesch: 85
     summary: Saturn No intention of big rings, I suppose I knew from the start. Not even Olympus Mons can compare To cratered communication days you deal.
    keywords: heart; start
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        item: #655 of 662
          id: genesis-29007
      author: Hollcraft, Sarah
       title: Koi
        date: 2025
       words: 9
      flesch: 66
     summary: 201 4” x 9” Digital Photography Sarah Hollcraft Koi
    keywords: koi
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        item: #656 of 662
          id: genesis-29008
      author: Miller, Levi
       title: Full Moons Are Perfect for a Werewolf to Come Out (As Transgender) (best of)
        date: 2025
       words: 4869
      flesch: 92
     summary: “This is amazing, Violet,” I said to Donnie’s mom. Donnie cleared his throat, eyes wide enough that I could see little red blood vessels.
    keywords: alexa; donnie; eyes; face; grandmother; hand; parker; violet
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        item: #657 of 662
          id: genesis-29009
      author: LaMar, Paige
       title: Herron Hallway
        date: 2025
       words: 9
      flesch: 84
     summary: 215 18” x 24” Pencil Paige LaMar Herron Hallway
    keywords: hallway
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        item: #658 of 662
          id: genesis-29018
      author: Benson, Chase
       title: Cannoli (best of)
        date: 2025
       words: 213
      flesch: 98
     summary: Garnished with fruit, it fills the mouth with thick cream. He rims the shell’s interior with a light jam, As cream reaches the cusp, sap seeps out the edge.
    keywords: cream
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        item: #659 of 662
          id: genesis-29019
      author: Garris, Hayden
       title: Scum
        date: 2025
       words: 1151
      flesch: 98
     summary: It’s fast food. Fast food isn’t for the weak.
    keywords: sandwiches; scum
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        item: #660 of 662
          id: genesis-29020
      author: Byrd, Daylen
       title: Man with Turquoise Necklace
        date: 2025
       words: 14
      flesch: 97
     summary: x 16.5” x 1.5” Mixed Media Daylen Byrd Man with Turquoise Necklace 220 20”
    keywords: necklace
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        item: #661 of 662
          id: genesis-29021
      author: Allee, Evan
       title: The Intricacies and Eccentricities of Loving a Necromancer
        date: 2025
       words: 2921
      flesch: 83
     summary: Graveyards have provided ample stock, and bone carving has become a hobby out of necessity. He dejectedly, not for his own sake, but mine, resigned himself to the wil- derness for hours at a time, foraging for mushrooms and miscellaneous bones, transplanting what he had found miles out into my own yard.
    keywords: head; man; person; shadows; town
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        item: #662 of 662
          id: genesis-29022
      author: Park, Isabella
       title: The Computed Image of Us
        date: 2025
       words: 183
      flesch: 86
     summary: Have you found a tank to take over–are you shooting big missiles into empty fields of overgrown grass? Do you miss touching soft skin?
    keywords: priest
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