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pickled

She’d stepped out for coffee and eggs; she’d been gone for 27 years, a hundred and three days, twelve hours, and a minute on the microwave.

16 min readMay 13, 2023

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pickled

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all my friends are fidgeting

Why is Rafi making so much bread?

4 min readApr 7, 2023

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all my friends are fidgeting

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*arrival: 1. 27. 1967

I’ve been thinking about you this week, Mom. Happy birthday.

4 min readJan 28, 2023

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1

*arrival: 1. 27. 1967

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1

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claro

una nota de Colombia/a note from Colombia

2 min readJan 6, 2023

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claro

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color of a fire/3:00am

These damned kids. The merchandise!

5 min readDec 12, 2022

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color of a fire/3:00am

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what are your colors

Paint me, they said. They spread their arms and legs out like a Vitruvian Man. Hair the color of burning straw.

4 min readDec 6, 2022

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what are your colors

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/solidus

vignette (11.17.22)

There are nights I try to make dusk into cloth.

2 min readNov 18, 2022

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vignette (11.17.22)

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six years, and the patina of memory.

September 29th passed me by this year like leaves on the winds of this prolonged autumn. If the calendar is right, I spent the day being…

4 min readOct 13, 2022

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six years, and the patina of memory.

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/solidus

I hear church bells.

You’ve never seen anything like the sight of Andriy walking to the hinterland, outlined in mauve, as clouds of earth and seed burst to his…

2 min readFeb 25, 2022

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I hear church bells.

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How to break a child.

And a society while you’re at it.

16 min readJan 29, 2022

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picture of a student’s legs in ripped jeans with Sharpie drawings on them.

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/solidus

/solidus

A mix of short fiction and memoir, with the occasional bit of longform commentary. E-mail: dustineubanks@icloud.com | Instagram: @dustyeub96

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