"the kiss list" by Jamison O'Sullivan
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Sometime in 2019, I realized that my brain held onto information the best in list form, and so, at the bottom of my notes app, there’s a...
Oct 133 min read
"Living Trust" by Linda Dreeben
Prologue You write your wills before your first trip away from your young son. You revise them when you have more assets and a second...
Oct 1312 min read
"The Wolf Girl" by Lisa Bernstein
Kihyana is sixteen and wears CDG and thrift store jeans three sizes too big. She likes stompy boots with spikes. She occasionally dyes...
Sep 242 min read
"Banana Split Ferry" by Sadee Bee
On nights my soul is ablaze, I whistle a tune for Charon and his Ferry. Strange we are on speaking terms, but we have met once before....
Sep 34 min read
"A Chosen Permanence" by Brenna Ebner
I step into my gynecologist's office. I didn’t even know they had ones for consultations. I assumed they only worked in rooms with...
Sep 33 min read
“You’ve Been a Great Audience, Goodnight” by Jane Bloomfield
I visited my Dad in hospital after a throat cancer haemorrhaged requiring a two-litre top-up of blood. He was alive but looked ready for...
Aug 183 min read
"Blue Collar Dreams vol. 3: Death, But Just a Taste" by Alex Rost
I wake up early enough to leave a message saying I’m sick, then close my eyes and tell myself that sometimes it takes a moment of giving...
Aug 42 min read
"Boy Wonder" by Jane Bloomfield
We went on a family ski trip to Australia once. It’s was strange skiing through gum trees in the rain. The terrain flat the snow thin the...
Jun 234 min read
"The Sneaker" by John McCally
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!” My daughter Rogan was standing in our kitchen carrying a Size 8 sneaker full of Rachael Ray...
Jun 2321 min read
"Notes from the side station - an escalation" by Sarah DiSilvestro
Mackinac Island - Week Four - 2004 Sunday The staff dining room walls were the color of cooked egg yolk, the floors a hospital white....
Jun 93 min read
"How to Survive Christmas" by Alison Colwell
Tell everyone you're fine. Pick yourself up from the bottom of the stairs, climb back up to the kitchen and take the phone from your mom...
Jun 98 min read
"Mirror, Mirror" by Sherri Alms
“Hello, I’m Emmy Lu,” said a tiny woman with bright white hair cropped short and elegantly dressed in a sapphire blue cardigan the color...
Jun 94 min read
"Sistren" by Rebecca Klassen
The toddler stands barefoot in his nappy on the warm tarmac. Or in his diaper on warm asphalt, if I were to use the North Americanisms my...
May 274 min read
"Gone in Goliad" by Danna Walker
So, yes, Goliad, population 2,000, where I had last been perhaps 60 years before — a kid roaming the orchard behind my great-aunt’s old,...
May 121 min read
"PS752" by Sarvin Parviz
For Roja Azadian Everyone in the group chat voted. A committee of girls, three of us, were chosen to pick out the jewellery, a goodbye...
May 1211 min read
"Hogueras" by Ethan Jacobs
The bookbag is a ruse, makes me look competent like I know where I’m going or what I’m doing. I don’t think anyone suspects I’m moving...
May 125 min read
"Muscle Memory" by Heather Sweeney
The shallow end greets me like an old acquaintance who can’t quite recall my name. I shiver from the cold or maybe doubt, then submerge,...
May 128 min read
"Broken at Thirty" by Torrey Kurtzner
It’s the early aughts. I’m no older than eight, stuck at a Hannaford grocery outlet. While my father was elsewhere gathering items for...
May 47 min read
"Stick-shift Sisterhood" by Danna Walker
Whenever we were bored, which was all the time, we got in the car. In the car, my friends and I cussed, drank, smoked, and outraced those...
Mar 313 min read
"Creatures Unseen" by Angela Townsend
An incomplete log of children who I have not seen: The Sasquatch. His body type is indistinguishable from that of my father. They share...
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