"The Pearl Divers" by Melissa Fitzpatrick
I knew my father was in the hospital for a long time, and I knew we visited, but I didn’t remember any of it. I didn’t remember the...
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"That Time When the Gods Saw a Marriage Counselor" by Kimberly B Hayes
Peri glared at her husband before answering my question. “I always hated that dog. He loves that stupid dog more than me.” Hades...
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"Marbled" by Brenden Layte
It’s cold on your cheek as you wake up, unsure of where you are and hungover, vomit crusted on your shirt and an HK MP5 a few feet from...
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"What the Master don't know" by Sarah Masters
It’s Monday mornin’ ‘an yer in ’t wash ’ouse dippin’ an’ wringin’ linen when I come to find you. You ignore me e’en though I’m standin’...
Oct 134 min read
"S'more stories" by Joanne Macias
It was going to be a dark and stormy night. Watching the clouds roll across the horizon, I anticipated a crack from the thunder that was...
Sep 303 min read
"Double Fisherman’s Knot" by Joyce Bingham
Storm clouds bruise the sky with flashes of forked lightning, highlighting the depth and power of the approaching gale. Around us the air...
Sep 241 min read
"Black Coffee" by David Ray Nichols
“Black with two teaspoons of raw sugar. I want it hot. I mean fire hot. I don’t want it to be that lukewarm crap this place serves us. I...
Sep 244 min read
"The Art of Making Perfect Rice and Other Secrets of Home Cooks" by Srilatha Rajagopal
America 101: The big mansion the marriage broker raved about in Chennai turns out to be a one-bedroom apartment with linoleum flooring...
Sep 244 min read
"Narcissus on the Deck" by Andrew Careaga
We were hitting our stride this Saturday morning, bodily rhythms in sync. Then came the first thud: a strange knocking from somewhere at...
Sep 34 min read
"Foulpuddle-in-the-Marsh, An Intimate History" by Patience Mackarness
All roads to Foulpuddle are dead ends. The sooner this dump is swallowed up by the sea, the better. So dull, even migrating birds don’t...
Sep 32 min read
"Aces and Eights" by J. S. O'Keefe
…for I have sinned. My last confession was over a year ago. Since then I’ve committed a myriad of sins. When I drink I tend to gossip,...
Aug 184 min read
"No Sweat" by Jeremy Boyce
I was sitting in a deckchair, taking the last rays of the evening, they’re the best ones, coming in under the ozone layer at the end of...
Aug 183 min read
"Because we don’t know how to lose" & "Violet" by Eirene Gentle
Because we don’t know how to lose Because we don’t know how to lose we lie in bedrooms feet splayed against ice cream tinted walls, pink...
Aug 182 min read
"The Impossibility of Katrina" by Elizabeth Rosen
I could show you a photo, but it wouldn’t tell you about the green, sick smell of the rotted glue of the peeling wallpaper, black mold...
Aug 183 min read
"Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed" by Kathryn Kulpa
Brandy Wore a braided chain, but it wasn’t silver and it wasn’t from Spain, it was from Delia’s. Ninth-grade Brandy was who we all...
Aug 184 min read
"Me and Bob Dylan at the Golden Suds on Arapahoe" by Lisa Thornton
I just moved here and I’m renting a room in that apartment with the engineer and his Rottweiler. There’s no washing machine so I spend...
Aug 182 min read
"When You Book Us a Tarot Reading After Your Death" & "Miss Havisham Teaches English" by Hema Nataraju
When You Book Us a Tarot Reading After Your Death... I show up, you are still my sister after all. You say I’m late, but it’s easy for...
Aug 43 min read
"Tired of Tinder Titbits" by Lizzie Eldridge
He was a bit rough around the edges, but he’d do. You were bored of one-night stands, of being ghosted, of being told how [insert] clever...
Aug 42 min read
"The Lexicon of Life" by Rachel Canwell
One downward sweeping stroke, barely kissed by two concave, backwards curls. Not quite a letter, a character unrecognizable, even to me....
Aug 42 min read
"A Trick, Sure Enough" by Elizabeth Rosen
The boxed baby was just over nine inches long. Pink-skinned. Pert. In the sunlight streaming through the high cedar branches, the woman...
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