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Threshold

By Scott Broker

Once Upon a Time

By Natsume Sōseki, translated from Chinese by Ryan Choi

Kingdom

By Brian Gyamfi

My Mother’s Stalker

By K-Ming Chang

N.C. Happe

N.C. Happe is an emerging memoirist currently residing in Chicago. Her work is previously unpublished; this essay is her first.

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Oil painting depicting still life of meat and dead birds piled up on a table and nearly spilling over.

Essay Bodies & Nature Family & Relationships

On Beauty and Violence

By N.C. Happe December 11, 2023

And now I do the thing I have always hesitated to do — no longer defending, but attacking.

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