Category: Special Features
Special Feature: “Distilling Ephemera, Translating Observations,” by Michael Colbert
“I set out to photograph collections of objects in order to think about the bric-a-brac that populates my life.”
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Special Feature: “I Love You to Mars” by Chloe N. Clark
This story about travel to Mars features gritty descriptions (literally) and a narrative technique that embraces simultaneity of experiences.
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Special Feature: Kelcey Ervick, “George Elliston: The Poet and the Paper Doll”
In this graphic essay, Kelcey Ervick explores the legacy of Cincinnati poet and patron of the arts George Elliston.
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Special Feature: “Due Water” by Ginger Ko
Ginger Ko complicates what it can mean to say “Me too” in an essay about familial abuse.
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Special Feature: Some spooky miCRos to raise your heart rate
We’ve rounded up some of our all-time spookiest miCRos for your reading pleasure this Halloween.
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Special Feature: “Tenebrae” by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
A bonus poem from a Fall 2022 contributor, after Caravaggio’s painting The Sacrifice of Isaac
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A Kinetic Digital Play: Lucid Dreaming by David Greig
As a kickoff to our twentieth anniversary activities, we’ve produced a digital version of David Greig’s play *Lucid Dreaming.*
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Special Feature: “Thoughts & Prayers Inc.: A Play[gue]” by Nathan Dixon
This one-act play is a relentless excavation of gun violence through the language of sympathy cards, a children’s song, and raw statistics.
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Special Feature: “Six Portraits” by Kevin McIlvoy
A story by Kevin McIlvoy, who died in September, introduced by Sebastian Matthews.
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Special Feature: “Interviewing with a Creative-Writing Program about How I Can Increase Their Profit Margins” by Heather Lanier
In this masterful microessay that blends experience and surrealism (as well as a Q & A), Heather Lanier explores the experience of an applicant on the academic job market.
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Special Feature: “The Airplane” by Giulia Sara Miori, translated by Isabella Corletto
Three hours. It’s a three-hour flight. Three hours is nothing, absolutely nothing—in the time it takes to depart, you’re already descending. In the time it takes to ascend, you’ve already started to land. I can endure three hours; I can certainly endure…
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“The Story You Want, The Story You Need” by Ellen Rhudy: Halloween Special
Ellen Rhudy’s “The Story You Want, the Story You Need” is an elegant reminder that all ghost stories are stories of grief and longing.
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