Apogee Journal

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Body

She’s not just my new therapist. She’s my first therapist. If my MetroCard doesn’t make me a New Yorker, then this surely makes it official.

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dena harry saleh

July 25, 2025

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Prairie Dogs

"Twelve!" I yell instinctively, like a wolf who can’t help from howling at a full moon.

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July 8, 2025

A picture of the writer Rodlyn-mae Banting. To the left of their picture the word Flash appears several times. To the right is the title Love Languages and Banting's name.

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LOVE LANGUAGES

My lover and I share a colonizer. It is the reason why a chair is a still chair and why what is delicate is also dangerous.

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Rodlyn-mae Banting

April 25, 2025

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Work Search Requirements

My dad hated work before hating work was cool. His first job in the United States was as a clerk at the San Jose Department of Motor...

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January 31, 2025

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Life Cycles

My mother says we’re strapped to a cosmic wheel, and you can’t just press a start button and expect to escape suffering. But Ama takes me...

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December 20, 2024

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I try saying a prayer for a NICU baby

I hear her saying the Lord’s prayer to them while they squirm and bat away the sticky readers on their little bodies. she is gentle. she has

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December 13, 2024

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Hopscotch

There amongst weeds and wildflowers grown higher than my head–there, hidden from plain sight in this vacant lot...

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Veronica Wasson

July 5, 2024

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Flesh

And this pretty-ass basilisk pulls up, talm bout “you so fine,” which duh I know, I got a man that tell me that every day?

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Olivia J. Williams

June 14, 2024

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Observation of Other Suspected Mental Condition

She tells me again about her warehouse in China, about the dolls she met there, until we hear my mother whisper...

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Carrie Purcell Kahler

May 24, 2024

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On Karia

He says to me, maybe we don’t know the books, but around here we know things, too, things you don’t. His wife: We do.

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May 10, 2024