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Jun 231 min read

"In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room, Aunt Flo Reads Female Frogs and Dragonflies May Feign Death to Avoid Mating" by Mikki Aronoff

When Jake’s home randy from trucking and candy, Flo’s amphibious—a moist, round thing. She sticks her skinny limbs out rigid—her rigor...

"The Over-Rated Importance of Sound" by Foster Trecost

Jun 232 min read

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"The Over-Rated Importance of Sound" by Foster Trecost

We moved on Tuesday but didn’t unpack right away. Mom said the boxes made it look like we had more furniture so we left them taped up and...

Jun 233 min read

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"True romance" by Sandra Arnold

When Chloe came home from school she spotted another pile of romance novels by the side of her mother’s chair. She picked one up from the...

Jun 234 min read

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"Killer" by Brandon Doughty

He came to in an instant, like someone flipped a breaker. Sitting up, he looked around wondering where he was. This thought led him to...

Jun 92 min read

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"Not like the movies" by Jac Morris

‘We made a pact,’ the Devil says. He’s here in black and white, like a young Cary Grant. Top hat and tails. Tombstone teeth. Tommy,...

"Wednesdays With Alicia" by Adi Kalidindi

Jun 92 min read

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"Wednesdays With Alicia" by Adi Kalidindi

On Wednesdays, we pound wine. By six o’clock, my wife and I are three or four glasses deep six depending on who you ask), as we lie in...

May 274 min read

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"Bon Appétit" by Grace Black

Wednesday. A day. Not unlike the middle class and its acceptance of subpar success. A perfectly overlooked day in the strictest sense....

"Side A: Violent Femmes" by Sabrina Hicks

May 273 min read

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"Side A: Violent Femmes" by Sabrina Hicks

We sat in our rooms with the new Violent Femmes cassette tape, rewinding the part where Gordon Gano sings about why he can’t get just one...

May 272 min read

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"Out of stock" by Eleonora Balsano

Yesterday sadness hit me in the condiment aisle, my cart still empty save the unseasonal raspberries I will forget in the fridge, watch...

May 274 min read

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"Dust to Dust" by Brendan Gillen

May awoke with a start in the middle of the night and felt a presence—a shadow, something—looming beside her bed. She clicked on the lamp...

"Super sorry, buddy" by Catherine O’Brien

May 273 min read

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"Super sorry, buddy" by Catherine O’Brien

The lure of the footlights drew him here and taught him to befriend himself. The gently sloping stairway to stardom kept him here....

May 124 min read

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"Fleeting" by John Grochalski

Of course, she was an artist. Of course, she was a writer too. Kyp could tell that by the way she pirouetted around the office pulling...

May 123 min read

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"Kiss Them Goodbye" by Ken Derry

He turned into the lot and parked in the back where the trees offered privacy and he backed in so the view to the building’s entrance was...

May 124 min read

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"Soliloquy" by Travis Flatt

The Witches swoop around the downstage lip of the stage. One leans close enough to smell the sweet tea on her breath. My wife bought us...

May 42 min read

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"Ann Presents" by D.B. Miller

Ann presents with tenderness in the mandibular and a new spring haircut. The clinical exam and radiographs reveal no decay or obvious...

"Why I Watch Groundhog Day on Repeat" by Mairead Robinson

May 43 min read

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"Why I Watch Groundhog Day on Repeat" by Mairead Robinson

Spent Sunday morning fucking a hot guy and we were exhausted by sex and uppers and all-night drinking, and he said, ‘what’ll we do?’ so...

May 44 min read

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"disappearing act" by Bethany Cutkomp

milo lathers me in faux bravery as if it won’t flake from my epidermis the moment they turn their head. for them, i will wad up my dread...

"The Soft Glow of Humanity" by Sydney Bollinger

May 43 min read

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"The Soft Glow of Humanity" by Sydney Bollinger

Mary Alden sits on the futon, next to her dead body, with her eyes narrowed and arms crossed. “I used the scythe to extract the soul from...

Mar 312 min read

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"Reckonings" by Brett Pribble

Old man Clancy needed a good scare. When Teddy walked past his house to the school bus, Clancy spit in his hair. He called the cops when...

Mar 312 min read

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"Of love and hoovers" by Sarah Masters

As a child, Bella had watched them through the kitchen window, her mother dipping and spinning to Are You Lonesome Tonight, one round and...