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The Common: Issue #14

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Contents
“The Common Statement” by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
“The Sky in Ohio” by Michael Byers

“Into Air” by Kenan Orhan

“Uncollected Territories” by Kirstin Allio

“The Interior” by Adam Padgett

“You’re the Sweetest One” by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

Excerpt from A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe

Essays
“The Tao of Sunbathing” by Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Decriminalization: A Love Story” by Susana Ferreira

“Vanishing Point” by Anya Ventura

“The Town with the Golden Future” by Will Preston

Poetry
“This Morning I Miss Such Devotion” by Vievee Francis

“Fayum Portrait” by James Hoch

“The Lifesaver” by L. S. Klatt

“The Children’s Wing” by Maria Terrone

“New Wave: Post Op” by Maria Terrone

“Waiting On Results” by Nicholas Friedman

“Repeat” by John Freeman

“Mons of Luke Al Dente” by Colin Channer

“From Books and Correspondences A Short History of Decay, E. M. Cioran” by Daniel Lawless

“Swallowtail” by Daniel Tobin

“In the Natural World” by Lawrence Raab

“An Education” by Lawrence Raab

“The Syrophoenician Woman” by Mariam Williams

“Kul” by Fatimah Asghar

“On My Problems” by Loren Goodman

“Poem” by Loren Goodman

“Some Do” by Matt Salyer

“Corey” by Mik Awake

“Graffito Beholds a Sculpted Dionysus Head” by Steve Barbaro

“First Elegy” by Alberto de Lacerda (translated by Scott Laughlin)

“Loss and its Antonym” by Alison Prine

“The Old City” by Nausheen Eusuf

Art
“Series of Thought” by Michael Mazur and Betsey Garand

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

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About the author

Jennifer Acker

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Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and organizes LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband. The Limits of the World is her debut novel.

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