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    Workhorse

    Megan Mayhew Bergman

    I couldn’t bring myself to feel pity for him. Some people had fathers who’d earned that kind of devotion, who’d sat through years of dance recitals and graduations. Papa paid the bills while Mom reluctantly doled out love. He and his job were the foundation of all things. We set our clocks to his needs. We toured the new power plants his company financed, donning yellow hard hats, pretending to be impressed, fishing warm sticks of gum out of our pockets to stay awake while walking through cement corridors. I can still recall the sound of my footsteps in those empty places.

    The Sloth

    Ben Loory

    A bunch of sloths were hanging out, eating leaves in the forest, when one of them suddenly spoke up.

    Hey guys, he said. I think I'm gonna get a job.

    Gonna get a what? another said.

    A job, said the sloth. You know, something to do. Don't you guys ever get tired of eating leaves?

    Homage to Lyle Ashton Harris

    Derrick Austin

    All winter I rested so well I couldn’t remember my dreams.

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