The rules for teaching writing in the local juvie? 1. Don't talk about sex. 2. Or drugs. 3. Or therapy or suicide.

In Chicago writer and Literago.org editor Mairead Case's "Kind of Like Birds," the featured story in no. 33.2 of our mini-broadsheets series, protagonist Mary finds her ways in and out of and around the prohibitions in any case in her time on duty there. Atlanta writer Lydia Ship's Robobrother rounds out the issue.

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