This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. Infernal by Tyehimba Jess There is a riot I fit into, a place I fled called the Motor City. It owns a story old and forsaken as the furnaces of Packard Plant, as creased as the palm […]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. “Chiarascuro” by Michelle Reale No one was awake when it happened Not even me, whose eyes were gaping Yet unseeing, unbelieving. Forget the young ones Who longed for reassurance There were limitations a mile long and a […]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. What I Know About Being Alone by Mary Stone Dockery Yes, there is a soreness to the naked creature I have become. Nowhere to point my hips, she says: A body still exists whether it is seen […]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. “The Lost and Erasable Parts of Us” by Robert Vaughan I moved into a basement apartment. The first thing to go was my sense of smell. Whether by cognitive choice or simply chance, everything smelled like Cheetos. […]