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May 27, 20242 min read
"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 27, 20244 min read
"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...

May 27, 20243 min read
"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 12, 20244 min read
"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 12, 20243 min read
"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 12, 20244 min read
"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 4, 20242 min read
"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...

May 4, 20243 min read
"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 4, 20244 min read
"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...

May 4, 20243 min read
"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 31, 20242 min read
"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 31, 20242 min read
"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...

Mar 17, 20243 min read
"All Night Dance Party" by Neil Willcox
It’s Midnight and Cinderella’s still dancing. The Prince missed a couple of steps in surprise. But so what if she’s no longer in formal...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"The Bird’s Garden" by Taylor Miles-Behrens
The third person to walk by outside yells, “It’s the bird’s garden!” before turning away. While it may be the bird’s garden, the baby is...

Mar 3, 20242 min read
"Whitecaps" by Meg Tuite
Blasted by winds of silent rage, this would be nothing less than a tsunami. No trees left standing. The Northeastern constricted...

Feb 18, 20242 min read
"Miracles Come in All Sorts of Ways" by Slawka G. Scarso
From the street, the house doesn’t ooze the unhappiness she had always believed it would. She sits in the car – fingertips drumming on...

Feb 18, 20242 min read
"Ghost of the Mountain" by Huina Zheng
Amid the solemnity of Qingming, I ventured up the mountain, a lone pilgrim on a path of remembrance. Winding upwards, the trail was a...

Feb 4, 20242 min read
"Johnny Tree Counter" by Will Musgrove
At a work function, Brad, our resident brown-noser and office know-it-all, told our general manager that Earth harbors more trees than...

Feb 4, 20244 min read
"Signseers" by Sarp Sozdinler
A face so beautiful you’d hate seeing it age. He had to die young. Almost. Fingers, hard-knuckled yet so delicate, at once pulling and...

Feb 4, 20242 min read
"All At Sea" by Geraldine McCarthy
He drives the coast road as if it were a motorway. I hold my breath as the car careens around bends, praying we don’t meet a tractor, or...
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