memoir
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An essay that won the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award and was published in Vol. 93, No. 2 of the same magazine After Elissa Washuta Every morning, I use my grandmother’s coffee pot. Wait, no, that doesn’t sound quite right. Let’s start this again. I still own my grandmother’s coffee pot, a stainless-steel 12-cup electric
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A flash essay that originally appeared in the Indiana Review Online in 2018 My father voted for Donald Trump. He was born in Torrance, California, named Juan Luis Ramirez. His parents, migrant farm workers, left him and his siblings as wards of the state when he was three. As far as I know. Tumultuous years
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A flash essay that originally appeared in the Indiana Review Online in 2018 David, who I’m sure is on to bigger and better things than teaching “Intro to Fiction Writing”, read us the end of Tobias Wolfe’s “Bullet in the Brain” in that special sincere and awed voice that writers save for reading the words