Author: limestone-admin
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milk is for beginners (hebrews 5:13)
i can feel / his picture-book breath / in my ear like a daydream. Poetry by Gabrielle Varela
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These are the Rules and They Have Been the Rules
You agreed to look for lost dogs on signs / and you agreed that we are all lost dogs looking for / each other Poetry by Robert Wood Lynn
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Gurney Norman on Allegiance, Appalachia and His Literary Legacy
I take great pride in being an American regionalist… I was raised in a coal camp. It’s just the best kind of social education, to be in such a compact place, and the issues of human life are all there. It happened several times: I would be playing down by the creek with other boys,…
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Assisted Living
I couldn’t help believing my mom was dragging me down. I felt like a bad person, thinking a thing like that, but I’d spent the last year bringing her clean underwear in psych wards and convalescent hospitals. She was still young, everyone said. And physically fine. But she wanted to die. It had become my…
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Traumatic Detour
Sometimes, during a lull between murders, I realize we’re due for another. Often, within a day or two of me realizing this, something dreadful occurs: a mass shooting; a bombing; a knifing rampage; a truck accelerating along the sidewalk. When this happens, I feel instantaneous remorse, as if I should have tweeted a warning: “Don’t…
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A Conversation with Morgan Parker
People have trouble with “pop” culture, but I’m like, it’s culture, right? Pop Culture is the mother fucking president. Conversation between Morgan Parker, Angel Dye, and Jeremy Flick
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Twined and The Denunciation
Maybe the first / was good enough, loved enough / Maybe a pink fetal Jesus wants / no other home Poetry by Mary Leauna Christensen
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The Will and Testament of Babel and Ad
Carlos J. Aldazábal, Frederico Díaz-Granados, Jeremy Paden, New Limestone Review, NLR poetry, translationA word in exile / makes a place for itself with a hoarse voice amidst failure Poetry by Federico Díaz Granados and Carlos J. Aldazábal Translated from the Spanish by Jeremy Paden