Apogee Journal

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Work Search Requirements

My dad hated work before hating work was cool. His first job in the United States was as a clerk at the San Jose Department of Motor...

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January 31, 2025

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Life Cycles

My mother says we’re strapped to a cosmic wheel, and you can’t just press a start button and expect to escape suffering. But Ama takes me...

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December 20, 2024

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I try saying a prayer for a NICU baby

I hear her saying the Lord’s prayer to them while they squirm and bat away the sticky readers on their little bodies. she is gentle. she has

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December 13, 2024

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Hopscotch

There amongst weeds and wildflowers grown higher than my head–there, hidden from plain sight in this vacant lot...

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Veronica Wasson

July 5, 2024

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Flesh

And this pretty-ass basilisk pulls up, talm bout “you so fine,” which duh I know, I got a man that tell me that every day?

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Olivia J. Williams

June 14, 2024

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Observation of Other Suspected Mental Condition

She tells me again about her warehouse in China, about the dolls she met there, until we hear my mother whisper...

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Carrie Purcell Kahler

May 24, 2024

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On Karia

He says to me, maybe we don’t know the books, but around here we know things, too, things you don’t. His wife: We do.

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May 10, 2024

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The Shore

I knew...that if I entered the water, braved the waves’ momentary rush, all would quiet, and I would descend, slowly, away...

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Matthew Torralba Andrews

April 26, 2024

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No ESmoking

My tías, a heavy, wet cloud around her, sobbing but holding abuela up. The dust of the road to the cemetery kicks up around their ankles.

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April 5, 2024

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There Are Women and There Are Djinn

My great-grandfather was a scholar who taught the Quran to djinn, never accepting payment, so as not to bind himself to them.

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December 15, 2023