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Woman Meets Man

Woman Meets Man

In which romance inspires art and life trudges on.

By Joann McCaig

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Marriage Poems

Marriage Poems

“‘Life is hard for me. / People all around / are turning into robots.’/ I’m jealous of her rich emotional life.

By Matsuki Masutani


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Room for Elephants

Room for Elephants

He fell in love with a blaze of heat and light, and she fell in love the way Alice fell, accidentally, down a hole with nasty surprises.

By Sue Hirst

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Prairie Love

Prairie Love

Magnolia and crocus blue sky, red dirt and new concrete—things found between Calgary and the middle of nowhere.

By Jill Boettger


THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
Shocked and Discredited

Kelsea O’Connor on Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg.
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Bordering

Michael Hayward on Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova.
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King of Bicycles

Roni Simunovic on the joker playing card.
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WRITING QUESTIONS, QUANDARIES & PICKLES
Advice for the Lit-Lorn

Starting with however

Dear Geist,

Where do you stand on the question of whether it’s okay or bad form to start a sentence with the word however? Our writing group remembers being told not to do so, but when we did some research we found nothing persuasive, just miscellaneous half-hearted declarations. Or maybe it's just not an issue?



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