Author: Scott LaClaire
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The Night Market
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A Dreamlike Song, translated from the Chinese by Michael Day
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The Cities Dissolve, and the Earth Is a Cart
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After God, Fear Women
While Mr. Osagie slept, his wife, Maria, lay in chains at the foot of the bed, where he’d kept her for three days now. She’d tried to wrest herself free on the first night, the chains grating and scarring her …
Orange Crane
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My Mother’s Gowns
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In Paradise

When I was young and a good listener, a man told me he had lost his soul.
We sat on a strip of flattened grass outside the gas station I’d cranked my junker car into. I was waiting for a …
A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

In Just Us: An American Conversation, Claudia Rankine’s latest collection of poems, hybrid essays, and photographs, she sets out to ask a random white man how he understands his privilege. I admit, as I read, I’m a mix of …