Category: Winter 2025 CNF

The Other End of the Line My father told me, and so did my roommates later, that when he called my dorm-room landline on September 11th, 2001, he was already panicking. I was eighteen, having moved across the country from our rural island to Manhattan, an island of roughly the same size and shape, the […]

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Circuit My mother claims to have the power to recharge dead batteries by touch. She holds them gently for half an hour and they begin to work again. She can’t fully control the power. Sometimes, the batteries don’t charge. Sometimes, the charge only lasts a brief time. But often, they’re as good as new. She […]

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