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Honorable Mentions The pigeons perch on a telephone pole like a string of dirty laundry. She hasn’t done her laundry in over a week because she ran out of quarters. She didn’t think city living would be like this: living in the cracks of the city, not quite on a bus line. She studies dead […]

Honorable Mentions creaming children run through the water fountain on the Greenway. A little girl hesitates, and she’s not sure what scares her more- getting wet, or missing the fun. «This used to be a highway.» My friend doesn’t hear me. She’s taking a picture of the sun shining off the clock tower. «I could […]

Honorable Mentions Not a morning person, I rise with the sun to get to the lottery on time. Three generations of a Chinese-speaking family fill out applications beside me. Across the table, a silver-haired empty-nester confesses she’s just moved back to the city. A young Black couple holds their breath with me while a gardener […]