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Category Archive: /self/ the existentialism issue

Convincing the Day It Exists by Russ Bickerstaff

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I always have such a tremendous difficulty getting out of bed. The first thing I do every morning […]

Chicago Literati February 3, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Feature Issues, Fiction, The Daily Flash

Waking Up by Kevin Finnerty

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You get up because you can’t sleep. You turn on the TV even though you went to bed […]

Chicago Literati February 1, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

Missing Grandpa by Bill Diamond

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Eleven year old Cassie Gleeson stood at the casket. Grandpa was the first dead body she’d seen. She […]

Chicago Literati January 27, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction, The Daily Flash

Doors by Leslie Frank

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When I was ten, I tried to kill myself by door. We had just moved from a brick […]

Chicago Literati January 26, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Essays, Feature Issues

The Year of Four by Nancy Ludmerer

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I met my ex-husband at Wolfson Tax Associates a week before my taxes were due. WTA (as they […]

Chicago Literati January 24, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

The Table by Irving Greenfield

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Jeffery Gould left the livery car slowly. Placing his cane his right hand, he approached a glass door […]

Chicago Literati January 24, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

Lizard & Rat by Lita Kurth

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“My logs are disappearing,” said the lizard, pushing his belly down to hide under the last three pieces […]

Chicago Literati January 16, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

Locations by Roberto Carcache Flores

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  The sound of faraway sirens seemed to hollow out the wind. I felt safer underneath the quivering […]

Chicago Literati January 16, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

The Gray House by Mario Duarte

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Under the pink-tinted streetlights while driving down 23rd Avenue, I began to feel as though something was amiss. […]

Chicago Literati January 16, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

Containers by Chris Wu

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  In the beginning (and I say beginning in so far as we both understand that the beginning […]

Chicago Literati January 10, 2017 /self/ the existentialism issue, Current Issue, Feature Issues, Fiction

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