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Megan Williams, from "There Will Be Bad Days" [ID in ALT]

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Emergency Management

by Camille Rankine

The sun eats away at the earth, or the earth eats away at itself and burning up, I sip at punch. So well practiced at this living. I have a way of seeing things as they are: it’s history that’s done this to me. It’s the year I’m told my body will turn rotten, my money talks but not enough, I feel my body turn against me. Some days I want to spit me out, the whole mess of me, but mostly I am good and quiet. How much silence buys me mercy, how much silence covers all the lives it takes to make me. In the event of every day and its newness of disaster, find me sunning on the rooftop, please don’t ask anything of me. If I could be anything I would be the wind, if I could be nothing I would be.

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Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”

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unagi (1997) dir. shohei imamura

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The Unseen (Lewis Allen, 1945)

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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987)

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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987)

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Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die.

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by Alejandro Sintura

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i press pause (on repeat)

last exhale for 2024,

i press pause and the world halts to a frame || a singular instance, a moment captured, screenshot! || take a picture and put it on display, make this one moment last forever || i press pause and everything stops and starts to rot, like meat on display hooks in walk-in freezers || i press pause and the world freezes over, hell hath no fury than someone who learned to keep still and rage on, rage…

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half return

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Tacones lejanos (Pedro Almodóvar, 1991)

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And die and live.

Bianca Stone, from "Love's Curse"

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Witches (Elizabeth Sankey, 2024)

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twenty years across the sea