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Justin Noga
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Justin Noga is a writer out of Akron, Ohio. His work can be found in BOOTH, the Arkansas InternationalReed MagazineNorthwest Review, and Witness, as well as forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review and Bennington Review. He has received residencies and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. He lives in Arizona. Find him on Instagram @jus.tin.no.ga, and justinnoga.com. This is his fourth story published in Conjunctions.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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Translated from Chinese by Deanna Ren
November 13, 2024
In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way!
November 6, 2024
His body had been in the trunk some hours already when she began to feel him next to her in the cab as well. She couldn’t see him at first, could only sense he was there. But soon the hair on her right arm stood up and the air beside her began to shimmer. Before she began to see him fully, she whipped her gaze away.
October 30, 2024
This house isn’t haunted, has never been, but that will change when, some years from now, I will sometimes feel a chill, and sometimes I will feel alone, and sometimes a voice will say, “Who are you and what have you done with Donna?” And I will try to respond, but I won’t know who Donna is, won’t even know a Donna. I fear I might someday learn.