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Issue 7.1 / January 2021

Letter from the Editor

Rosanna Gargiulo

Standing next to my mother in the cathedral, I feel both bemused and curious. I expected to visit churches in Central America. I didn’t expect my Hindu mom to pray in them.

Jay Shree Krishna, Jesus Christ

Sejal H. Patel

Nonfiction

You were still very much unripe when they harvested you from the center of her body, a seven-month-old thing.

Birdboy

Ernest Ogunyemi

Fiction

Why not more round riveted windows
hinged to swing outward?

Architects, Please Try Harder

Aaron Brame

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