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Fredericksburg
By Andrew Clark The Hyatt Place hotel in Fredericksburg is a five-minute drive from the Virginia field where 12,500 Union soldiers were killed or wounded in the month of December 1863. The Hyatt Place Fredericksburg has ninety-three well-appointed rooms and is right next to Mary Washington Hospital. It has a

Fredericksburg
By Andrew Clark The Hyatt Place hotel in Fredericksburg is a five-minute drive from the Virginia field where 12,500 Union soldiers were killed or wounded in the month of December 1863. The Hyatt Place Fredericksburg has ninety-three well-appointed rooms and is right next to Mary Washington Hospital. It has a

Rattle
By Alex Dako, He checked his cellphone; he had two missed calls and a text message that read: “hey man… I need your muscles at

Pancake Day
By Sarah Edmonds They are perfect. Just how he remembers them—better, even. Circular and golden, with purpled unbroken globes all over, each evenly spaced from

Three Minutes
By Lillian Neal “Three minutes,” I say, struggling to keep the nerves from my voice as I start the timer. I use the mirror to gauge

Maybe Talk to Carl
By Derek Alan Jones Okay, look. I did push the button. Carl told me not to push it, but, I mean, have you ever been

You Make Yourself Amazing
By Sean Nishi It can get exhausting. The school kids. The team building groups. The seminarians. Especially the seminarians. Today we have a group of

Shigeru’s Shadow
By RICHSKI I conducted my interview with John Ashfield as part of a university-led project to record recollections of the last remaining World War Two

Real Friends
By Steven Daniel When I was a boy, my friend Ellie could almost fly. I remember the first time she showed me. We snuck up

Chickamauga
By Andrew Clark, At first, Catherine Davis thought some kids had played a prank. On the front lawn of her Riverdale home were two piles:

The Carnival
By Geeta Johal, Samuel glances over his shoulder and sees the moon spilling into the sea. He dusts his leather jacket, hides a gun under