Going into Starbucks to Order Butter Tea By Krista Stevens Highlight “Pema wants to ask Jamal, Have you seen the news? But of course he hasn’t. He’s got other things to think about and now so does she.”
Did Your Walls Keep Them Out, or Lock You In? By Michelle Weber Highlight Gabriela Garcia’s short story about a women fighting a cold war with her new neighbor is deeply political without explicitly being about politics at all.
Of Politics and Prose By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.
‘They’ve Forked Baby Hitler’ By Michelle Weber Highlight High-stakes time travel adventure from sci-fi writer Jo Lindsay Walton.
‘Because pretending was sometimes the only way to get through the day.’ By Michelle Weber Highlight A teacher helping fidgety students pass a rainy recess with a familiar game — don’t touch the floor, it’s lava! — finds that the ability to pretend takes on an unexpected gravity.
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