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Jennifer Acker
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Excerpts from Khanandihi
SHATADAL MITRA
This is how it has always been and will continue to be as long as our prodigal lizard agrees—“thik-thik-thik.” So here in Khanyadi, people still cried in obeisance—“Oh hail, Mother Khana!” Khanyadi believed in her heart that it was a righteous namesake
This is how it has always been and will continue to be as long as our prodigal lizard agrees—“thik-thik-thik.” So here in Khanyadi, people still cried in obeisance—“Oh hail, Mother Khana!” Khanyadi believed in her heart that it was a righteous namesake
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Fatigue
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2019
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The Limits of the World
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2019
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8 editions
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Surrender
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2026
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2 editions
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The Common: Issue #13
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The Common: Issue #1
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2011
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The Common No. 01
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2012
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The Common: Issue #14
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2017
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The Common: Issue #5
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2013
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The Common: Issue #11
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The Common: Issue #12
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“A downpouring of immense darkness began . . . There was scarcely anything left of body or mind by which one could say, “This is he” or “This is she.” —Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse”
― Fatigue
― Fatigue
“When a relationship deepend, it feels like the melting of a stream. Wider, more fluid, sounding of happy birbles. Our life together has an openness and receptivity absent from the middle years. We laugh more readily at our foibles; we don't hesitate to ask each other for help.”
― Fatigue
― Fatigue
“Convalescence is learning to become kin not only with uncertainty but also with boredom, the frustration of non-doing”
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