"Breathless" by Lev Raphael
I was bullied in fifth grade, but not by other students: My teacher was the culprit, and she seemed to take special delight in tormenting...
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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 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...
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 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...
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...
Mar 319 min read
"Exhume" by Robert Warf
The connection I feel to my mother’s side I would not define as a connection. More a fantasy. There is no one to connect with. I have...
Mar 173 min read
"Litter" by Ashley Beresch
When my son wants to disappear for a while, he turns into a cat. He curls his small limbs into an ovalish shape on the couch, facedown in...
Mar 179 min read
"Festive" by Marshall Moore
Joan’s face goes blank, but not fast enough to conceal a sour, fleeting look of… scorn? Boredom? Disappointment? All of the above? I sip...
Mar 317 min read
"My Third Ball" by Phil O'Kelly
Lying in bed one night, I found a lump on my testicle. This was Spring 2009; I had recently turned thirty. To be certain, I fondled the...
Feb 183 min read
"Where’s Charlie" by Rebecca Tiger
In my dream, I pick up my cell phone and hear my mother’s voice. She sounds sleepy and far away. “I’ve been trying to call you,” she...
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