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  • Annette L. Brown

    Along the third base foul line, the boys embrace in a one-arm hug for a post-game pic. One wears a toothy grin, full of satisfaction at having pulled off a photo caper: shifting just as the pic is taken to squeeze the shorter boy to his shoulder. The squashed boy suffers the prank with a…

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  • Lisa McKay

    We wake early on these humid August mornings, our sweaty arms and legs embraced by damp sheets, a hot yellow sun already intruding through the slats in the closed blinds. Our mothers have to convince us to eat the breakfasts they’ve made for us, a cup of coffee that is more milk than coffee, some…

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  • Tommy Cheis

    “White-Painted Woman let Lightning drop Rain in her vagina. After a while Child-of-Water was born.” Four dikohe, or Horse Holders, seated at the cardinal directions around a mesquite fire, snigger. No doubt old Eddie chuckled too when he learned about our primary cultural hero. This trip, which we run every year to initiate our boys…

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