Writing is an act of resistance
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Dream Interpreter
By Jie Wang “I was on an underground train. The announcement kept saying ‘Terminal. Terminal,’ in a slow way. Then the train stopped. The man in a grey jacket was on the platform. He was the only one there. He looked into the train. He looked around. I felt that he was looking for…
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Two Poems by Gregory Wolff
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Now More Than Ever
By Marissa Glover You must pretend this is the first mask you’ve ever worn—act like it is the first time you hid yourself at home, away from the unseen thing that might make you sick, might kill you, if too much gets in. Now more than ever, dream of snakes walking into the house…
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Scrolling
By Laura Grace Weldon Two penguin chicks are the only survivors of a 40,000 bird Antarctic colony. I imagine fuzzy hatchlings chirping for food till silent, scroll on to read about a dog taught to talk with an adaptive device. Stella, a mixed breed, already uses 29 words although her choices don’t include “why.”…
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Long Time Listener
By H. A. Eugene Greetings HTW gang! First off I want to say thanks to Gabe, Mack, and your producer, the lovely Vicky! I am a fan of the podcast and have been a member of the How’s That Work? gang for almost longer than I can remember! As proof, I submit to you…
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White for Suffrage, Red for Riots
By Emily Knapp Crack. watch as we fracture. shards of a broken union used as weapons and knives (get out) (we don’t want you) heavy hearts as women burn in India and reds/yellows/greys paint the streets of Paris. We are all fighting we are all mad stealing back our stars and ripping our stripes…
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Bird Shit on Leaves
By Mark Grinyer The white-speckled green of bird-shit on leaves painted through weeks of days without rain marks favored platforms under canopies of trees where hawks cannot spy them but where they can see the movements of voters through wind-gusts and rain that soak these havens and wash shit away fertilizing forests with generations…
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For the Bookshelf: Bestsellers in the Age of Trump
Purity movement, Fiction, anti-government terrorist, Tara Campbell, #DonaldTrump, NRA, MAGA fiction, Donald Trump fiction, Incels, Make America Great Again, anti-vax, windmill noise cancer, injecting cleaner, injecting disinfectant, With Russia with LoveBy Tara Campbell All the President’s Mendacity How to Screw Allies and Idolize Dictators Where’s My African-American?: the Great Picture Puzzle Book Foreign Policy for Goddamn Idiots Windmill Noise-Cancer is Not a Thing, and Other Actual Facts The Man, the Myth, the Legendary Shitstorm: An “Illegitimate” Biography What the Fuck? Asking for a Nation…
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Group Home Rattle
By Andrés Castro Dropped and broken, over and over, we were dropped broken here— the labeled Spic and Nigger boys, said from stupid mothers and ugly fathers, said marked by wire gashes, gunshots, and sex toys, waking to crying, screaming, lying, threats. We were dropped broken here. Who bothers to look inside the hand that’s…