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The thirteenth issue of Impossible Task features work by:
Will Russo • Jeff Newberry • Vivian Kao • Phoebe Brown
Kelsey L. Smoot • Hibah Shabkhez • Kai Thigpen • Judith Leserman
Brian Builta • ​Robin Arble • Theodore Bee • Michael Russell
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ANC074: heart of us
by Kai Thigpen

welcome, little one. you have always been here / & now here you are.
In heart of us, Kai Thigpen draws upon their professional work with internal family systems psychotherapy to explore the multiplicity of experiences held by a therapist and client as they collaborate on a path of growth.
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ANC075: Dear Mrs.
​River-Dragon
by Vivian Kao

I meet a Korean American man and / a Chinese woman ... / Birds of a feather only because we happened / to rest on the same branch.
Vivian Kao documents her family's efforts to acclimate to Flint, Michigan in Dear Mrs. River-Dragon, focusing on the challenges of being an Asian-American woman and mother in a marginalized city where AAPI residents comprise less than one percent of the community.
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ANC076: Muse
​by Kelsey L. Smoot

i belong to myself these days / hasn't always been that way...
Muse finds Kelsey L. Smoot illustrating the zeitgeist of their current personal, social, and political orientation in poems decidedly southern and melancholic.
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you weren’t perfect, maybe, but you toed the line, you respected limits. and then one day you woke up and the line wasn’t where it had once been.
​In the experimental fiction Self-Portrait of the Artist Stupid with Grief, a young woman ruminates on the disappearance of her parents—her father to suicide long after her mother’s abandonment.
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I do not have a daughter / therefore I have kept her safe.
In Some Animals Eat Their Young, Dmitra Gideon merges public and private histories to address the impossible-to-voice cruelties of child abuse.
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the softened sound
of clinking glass, the curling
​of a stinger embedded in her tongue
In addiction is a sweet dark room, Amanda Nicole Corbin shares her personal story of recovery, recounting the dark depths of drinking and the light thereafter.
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​My kids, / wildfires that cracked me, / first born on the Fourth of July. // One knocks her tooth on / the door. Nothing to do, / watch her mouth fill with blood.
In Eruption Sequence, Meg Thompson conflates her young daughter and son's teething with the postpartum depression she concurrently faces—feeling she too will slowly explode from the unseen stress of motherhood.
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