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Sep 24, 20244 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 24, 20244 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 3, 20244 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 3, 20242 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 18, 20244 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 18, 20243 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 18, 20242 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 18, 20243 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 18, 20244 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 18, 20242 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 4, 20243 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 4, 20242 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 4, 20242 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...

Jul 21, 20242 min read
"Return to Work" by Deepti Nalavade Mahule
Rush hour morning traffic on a weekday with the freeway resembling a parking lot. On the passenger seat of a car: a work bag, a lunch bag...

Jul 21, 20244 min read
"Cahoots" by David Henson
For their fifth anniversary, Melinda suggests she and her husband, Martin, spice things up by parking in a secluded lane by the lake. The...

Jul 21, 20244 min read
"Hurley's House" by M. Rose Seaboldt
“It’s perfect!” Johnny Hurley and Robbie Decker stood in front of a small, rundown house that was surrounded by overgrown weeds and...

Jul 21, 20241 min read
"Irreversible" by John Szamosi
After listening to a speech on injustice, Cannon Fodder decided to petition the Council to turn him back into young people. He went to...

Jul 21, 20242 min read
"Pronunciation is Everything" by Laura Cooney
The Westwood Crochet Club had been running in the town of Newbattle Hove for decades. The three founding members had done no more than...

Jul 7, 20242 min read
"Dreki" by Kathy Hoyle
Marta stares into the fissure, flinching as the heat blisters her cheeks. Her boy, Kristjan, has been missing for eleven days now, ever...

Jul 7, 20241 min read
"Best Intentions" by Megan Hanlon
When heavy rains come, the driveways and sidewalks flood with earthworms. Long, skinny, pink ones; fat, short brown ones. Together but...
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