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One Reason I Hate Ice Breakers is I Always Overshare
If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and does this exercise make you as uncomfortable as it does me?
 • Alicia Kenworthy
Calcification
Have you ever heard a friend’s work voice for the first time? he asks. The question throws me back to cusp-of-30; Friends who talk system integrations…
 • Alicia Kenworthy
This is why God made Emojis
Re: Ted Mosby, Writer's Block and "Check Yes or No"
 • Alicia Kenworthy
Hyperbaric Oxygen & Finnegan's Wake
I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat.
 • Alicia Kenworthy
Goat Yoga
My mom asks how it went last night. Was I performing? Or just seeing a friend? I tell her I just went to see a friend. That’s so generous, she says…
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Even a Georgia Peach
On Australian Cattle Dogs, Hamster Trauma, and some guy named Kevin
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Here's a Quarter
Thoughts on the deepening rift between Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus
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Letter of Concern
On Collapsing Noses and Bank Runs
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Poetry on Vintage Tea Towels
A Story for the MOTH
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Rear shocks
We’re driving down I-66 when Delilah comes on the radio and M. says, “I’m going to give her a call.” The idea is you call in with a love story — more…
 • Alicia Kenworthy
On Stinkbugs
It’s one of those days where I’ve had too much caffeine.
 • Alicia Kenworthy
Why did no one ever tell me about Edward P. Jones?
On Washingtonian short stories and neighbors down the hall
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