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Recent Features
Spy Reprints “Warrior’s Helmet Crab” by Caroline N. Simpson
Author’s Note: “New to Delaware, I took my 18-month-old on day trips to the sleepy beaches along Delaware Bay, where we first encountered horseshoe crabs. My life then was dominated by firsts: first … [Continue Story]
Spy Reprints “The Beautiful Impossible” by Carl Boon
Author’s Note: “The Beautiful Impossible”—speculative and oddly detailed—imagines the speaker before he was born, a figure who inhabits Nebraska and falls in love with a woman who ultimately turns away from him. At its core, […]
Spy Reprints “When/Then/That” by Katherine Gekker
Author’s Note: “When a significant relationship ends painfully, we often find ourselves rehashing the turning points, the decisions, the regrets. With the repetition of “when, then, that,” I hope to … [Continue Story]
Spy Reprints “Defiance of Dandelions” by Jennie C. Linthorst
Author’s Note: “This poem came to me when I was traveled to a conference in Asheville, North Carolina. I grew up in Tennessee, and when I took a walk in those southeastern woods, I was […]
Spy Reprints “Meditative Ducks” by Tara Gilson Fraga
Author’s Note: For the last few years I have had the honor of working with children in special education. It has been a humbling and educational experience. Every time I think I understand, I realize […]
Spy Reprints “Background Image” by Frannie McMillan
Author’s note: Let’s not pretend all long-term relationships are a place lust dies, where neither party finds another person attractive ever again. Fantasy allows for a moment of escape in what is otherwise a committed […]