Jeffrey Liao – The Republic of Salt

Jeffrey Liao The Republic of Salt    yellow girls We live in the dregs of Flushing, New York, where laundry hangs open and greasy on clotheslines, where snaggle-toothed men whistle at our bodies in slack-jawed Mandarin, where the stench of dead fish and ammonia stains the air. On our block, a lonely tree grows. Its […]

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Giles Scott – In Everything Enchanted There’s an Element of Trust

Giles Scott In Everything Enchanted There’s an Element of Trust.                                                                           My wife’s on a flight to Chicago, sitting on the LAX runway, third or fourth plane in line. She’s on page 85 or so. The man next to her leans over and recites from memory the first two sentences, “‘Lolita, light of my […]

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