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Ants push god aside, emerging from their many tunnelsin what we term a “colony” while they don’t—taking umbrage,though having the grace to keep to their purpose, concomitantwith god emergent manifold and compelled across interlinkedtunnels with those mouths out of a constellation of gravel. Over the hill, many different ant IDs cross lines of forage,and traces …

The notion of trespass becomes seductive in Jaclyn Gilbert’s story “Trespassing.”

In the deep winter, a boy discovers a landscape filled with ghosts and symbols.

Sebastián H. Páramo’s “The Great Bear” opens with today’s changing, deconstructing landscape—the result of climate change.

A jog through Bed-Stuy becomes much more in Natan Last’s “The Runners.”