Raimer Rugh

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My Dead Come Before Me – Nayra Atiya A poetic memoir of family rituals, Christmas indulgences, and the echoes of parental presence through memory.

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Brink – Nava Renek Jackie took her place on line at Leaf and Bean, glancing around the room, hoping her favorite corner two-top would still remain unoccupied by the time she picked up her latte--meaning there’d be no yo...

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San Miguel de Allende – Mark Chester Photo Narrative It took nine hours to get to this Spanish colonial city northwest of Mexico City from Providence airport. It was worth the journey. It was February 2020. COVID was on the horizon.

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Alaska – Cora Enterline Can you feel it, that biting cold of the morning, every bit of you damp and wanting? Sleep still over you like a heavy, wet blanket, frost eating gently away at the porthole window? Early morning, so ...

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Notes From Abroad – Erica M. Szuplat Notes From Abroad: I struck gold with this Royal Talens sketchbook I picked up in Gothenburg, Sweden. The cadmium red hardbound cover caught my eye and the creamy pages were a hefty weight (similar to...

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Murder Under the Lamposts – Dion Dennis Murder Under the Lampposts: He hung a left off Roscoe, onto a deserted, derelict section of North Lincoln Avenue, briskly striding toward one of Chicago's Six Corners: Lincoln, Belmont, and Ashland Av...

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I Fixed It – Toby Lineaweaver I Fixed It: Volvo has an impressive history of safety innovations going back decades. Examples include the padded dashboard, the three-point seat belt, and pertinent to this story, it was among the fi...

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Slender | Elliot Schwebach Poetry: a wind knows flame in apophatic lust...

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Tethered (excerpt) – Raimer Rugh It’s on a cloud-free and ordinary day like this when it hits, as if all those years in-between were only for the plethora of insignificant things; empty blue skies and dark clouds testing her, waiting...

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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Ariel Balter | Tales of the Valley Not a morning person, Miranda, clad in her bathrobe, lumbered into the kitchen at 6:40 in the morning and was startled to encounter an unfamiliar man...

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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Burt Rashbaum | The Dead of Night He knew he and his brother wouldn’t be told the real story. Or maybe his brother did know the truth because he was older. ...

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Decision time in the washing machine – Michael Oort Along the way from the Waquoit Bay channel to Falmouth Heights the outflows of the lesser channels provided challenging...

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Freshman Year, 1977 | by David Newkirk | The Drift & Dribble Miscellany We storm the beachhead of the Harper Hall dormitory in beat-up, rust-covered, sputtering Pintos, in borrowed pickups and leased U-hauls, in the shiny red Italian sportscars our daddies unwisely bought...

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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Ben D'Andrea | Tufted Mafiosi of Little Italy This is a factual report, not a story. It summarizes my investigation into what happened to that band of pals who got dubbed, as a gibe at their Italian descent, the Farabutti: the crooks...

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Somebody Else | by Sara Jae | The Drift & Dribble Miscellany Somebody Else walked into the gas station bathroom. He followed Somebody Else inside, the heavy metal door slamming behind them. It was...

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Magic Square Poems | Greg Hill | The Drift & Dribble Miscellany Magic Square Poetry: Melancholia Poets come by melancholy easily. Jealousy kicks hard...

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Last Night I Assembled | Stephen Turner | The Drift & Dribble Miscellany Poetry: Last night I again assembled All the dead I’ve loved—...

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Chickie (an excerpt) | Frankie Regalia | The Drift & Dribble Miscellany I wake up from my dream. The story of the princess kitten sisters and their friend Jesus Christ becomes harder to remember with every second. Dang, that was a good one....

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Shorebird | Missing You | Judith Williams | The Drift & Dribble Miscellan ‘Shorebird’. The name on the houseboat was painted in cursive font on the prow, each letter carefully picked out in black and gold, and surmounted by a...

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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Linda Kotis | A Mothering You see her. About thirty yards away. Standing near one of the benches in the park at Lake Merritt. You almost speak your fears aloud...

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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Libby McMillen | In Polite Company Nettie Brown stood at the top of the worn but freshly scrubbed stone steps, composing herself with a restless thumb on the latch of her front door....

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Tornadoes | by Ellen Acconcia | The Drift & Dribble Miscellany Midnight. The harrowing, brutal thunderstorm ends as abruptly as it began. The power goes out as an eerie quiet falls over our neighborhood.

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