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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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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.
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.
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.
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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