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Religious Baggage

By Ashley Makar | October 29, 2014

An excerpt from Ashley’s new e-book You Were Strangers: Dispatches from Exile

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On Not Leaving Kashmir

By Hillary Brenhouse | April 26, 2013

The boatman barely flicked his wrist, yet we moved forward in a terrifically straight line. How was he doing it?

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Bombed-Out Jesus

By Ashley Makar | December 3, 2012

It’s not until I look at the blank space where his face would be that I see how white he was.

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Reading the St. Louis Edicts

By Cynthia-Marie O'Brien | September 10, 2012

A godmother’s gift of exile