"Subway Sonata" by Mark Blickley
Greg Burton kicked an empty beer can up and down a freezing subway platform. His sister Carol complained about the noise he was making,...
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Apr 17, 20223 min read
"Culinary Legacy" by Eleonora Balsano
When I spot Nonna’s Fiat 127 across the ice-cream parlour, my heart skips a few beats. I tug at my white denim miniskirt, desperate to...
Apr 3, 20222 min read
"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk
CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...
Apr 3, 20222 min read
"The Last Birthday Party" by Hanne Larsson
You’ve been here before. The sea nips at your toes, the sand cool after so much walking that your shoes have almost shredded away and...
Apr 3, 20222 min read
"The Fruit I Gave Away" by Margo Griffin
We arrive at 9AM, and it’s already a sticky, sweltering summer morning. The cars are lining up as visitors come early to pick their...
Apr 3, 20224 min read
"Gerty", "Spit", and "Blush" by Arden Hunter
Gerty He had a binder clip holding his hat together. It was one of the first things people noticed when they met him, though most were...
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"Solitude at the Falls" by Sara Dobbie
Clifton Hill is awake and pulsing, moving like a living, breathing thing. A voice radiates from a loudspeaker inviting tourists into the...
Apr 3, 20222 min read
"Water, Water, Everywhere" by Samuel Edwards
My Grandfather left me three things in his will; a John Wayne-signed movie poster from Rio Bravo, an assortment of low denomination coins...
Apr 3, 20223 min read
“Maybe Soon if Not Now” by Rashmi Agrawal
He kisses me deeply, his cardamom-flavored saliva mingling with mine. Cardamom disgusts me; I like ginger tea. Yet he refuses to add...
Apr 3, 20222 min read
"Chick-la" by Nora Nadjarian
She’s the only thing left in the freezer, a chicken, hard as a rock. He calls her Chick-la as an endearment. His ex disappeared one fine...
Mar 20, 20221 min read
"Bullet Holes in San Bernardino" by Kate Flannery
I didn’t notice the bullet holes right away. They had hit the faux wood paneling in what the lawyer called his conference room, just...
Mar 20, 20222 min read
"The Language of Flowers" by Rachel Canwell
Every day, in the window of the house with the red door, there are flowers. Flowers sitting in pride of place. Flowers spilling their...
Mar 20, 20222 min read
"NOTE TO SELF: JUST STOP" by Laura Stamps
1. “Good girl,” I say to the little dog when she pees beneath the palm tree outside my apartment building. That’s what the training video...
Mar 6, 20224 min read
"Enbees" by Nick Olson
Wyfy had the metal man in their mind again while tilling in the field, near daybreak, most everyone else asleep aside from Wyfy’s partner...
Mar 6, 20222 min read
"Love Has Rules" by Francine Witte
Love Has Rules And you can’t change ‘em. I told this to Harley again and again. Been this way forever, I’d say. He’d ignore me, but still...
Mar 6, 20227 min read
"Pelvis", " Tupelo", and "The Unexploded Bomb" by Kieran Wyatt
Pelvis I’m wiping Mrs. Carleton’s backside when she tells me she has a secret. ‘You won’t believe it,’ she says. I help her to stand,...
Mar 6, 20223 min read
"Big Top" by Cath Barton
It was the brightness of it I saw first, red and yellow radiating stripes, forming and dissolving in front of my eyes as we galloped...
Mar 6, 20222 min read
"The Woman Who Needed to Run" by Emma McEvoy
She pulls on her running shoes and slips unnoticed out the back door, down the rain-slicked path, and through the garden gate where she...
Feb 20, 20222 min read
"After Dinner She Came Up" by Julia Ruth Smith
She was not what I’d been expecting; not less but somehow not quite enough. She was a stunner, slim waist, cross-legged now on the rug; a...
Feb 20, 20221 min read
"When She Set the Alarm for Two" by Jenny Wong
Luna and John sat side by side, a pair of clocks unwound into stillness. Their faces stared forward. Backs leaned up against a cracked...
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