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Jamie Alliotts
[DESPERATION] Howling. Tears. Seizures. Foam. Specialists who want to help but can’t, who fancy themselves serene but always lose their cool. Medications to get off medications. Chores done and undone. Violence over Jell-O. Group, no Therapy. Folks peeping into your room every two hours to make sure you’re still breathing, leaving the door cracked, open enough for a single slant of light to keep you company, keep you awake, keep you from dreaming...[more] |
Kelsey Stimson
[DECAY] The bigger dozer is still nothing compared to the huge blade actually making the grinding, chewing, gnawing sounds, munching through Christmas trees and tree trunks like snapping toothpicks. “That’s actually one of the small ones,” Keith says proudly. The Komptech Terminator 6000, the size of a small U-Haul truck and much more dangerous. The mouth of the Terminator faces up into the sky so that from down here on the ground, I imagine a bird’s eye view of the monster as a giant, sucking earthworm whose throat is lined with rows and rows of shifting teeth... [more] |
Max Gibson
[SEX] Scroll down a little farther to exit Dartmouth and enter the real Upper Valley: mustachioed or bearded middle-aged men in white t-shirts, all of them in beds, bathrooms, or closets; the occasional isolated young man with a profile description along the lines of, “Is anybody out there?”; a smattering of photo-less profiles—the “discreet” high school students and their “discreet” fathers...[more] |
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by EVA XIAO
A rookie skates rural roller derby. |
by LEXI KRUPP
Dreaming of farms on borrowed land. |
by TAYLOR MALMSHEIMER
Night and Day with the Only 24-7 Suicide Call Center in Vermont and New Hampshire. |
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by NATE KANIA
The goal is just to soar. |
by LINDSAY MACMILLAN
A shelter for rural and small town homeless families. |
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Volume 2 Editor:
Kelsey Stimson
Editor
kelsey.a.stimson.15@dartmouth.edu
Kelsey writes. She also enjoys telling other people how to write. She was the editor of Forty Towns for its first and second volume. Kelsey studies English Literature and Creative Nonfiction at Dartmouth. Her short story, Home Ravaged by Fire, won the 2011 Mecklin Award for Literary Nonfiction.
Editor
kelsey.a.stimson.15@dartmouth.edu
Kelsey writes. She also enjoys telling other people how to write. She was the editor of Forty Towns for its first and second volume. Kelsey studies English Literature and Creative Nonfiction at Dartmouth. Her short story, Home Ravaged by Fire, won the 2011 Mecklin Award for Literary Nonfiction.
Volume 2 Contributors:
