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The award-winning story is about a young immigrant growing up in Southern California to the sound of music seeping into his family’s home from an upstairs neighbor’s piano, shaping the boy’s understanding of memory, family, belonging, and the improvisational ethics of music.
...April 13th, 2026
She enters the room like a rimshot,
sharp enough to wake the drunks
dozing at the back table.
A quicksilver crack across the silence.
December 9th, 2025
The story – a short-listed entry in the recently concluded 69th Short Fiction Contest – is a meditation on missed chances, minor keys, and the music that outlives the room it was played in.
...November 5th, 2025
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The Sunday Poem: “Traces” by Jason Youngclaus
The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work...
Jason Youngclaus reads his poem at its conclusion.
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