"Fast Car" by Lisa Lerma Weber
Do you remember the time we were driving down Main Street in your dad's old blue Monte Carlo and "Fast Car" played on the radio? You said...
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"The Last Letter" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
My Boy, When you read this letter, I will be dead. I’m sorry, but you need to let me go. If you don’t, I might start haunting people, and...
Jun 11, 20233 min read
"Back Into the Wild" by Cole Beauchamp
The first time we saw it, we were rowing under Barnes Bridge, cool shadows flooding our lungs with their mossy scent. Like the black...
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"Absorbed" by Katharine Coldiron
I fell asleep with my left hand resting on my phone, and when I woke up the phone had become part of me. My hand had grown around it, had...
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"The Very Bad People at a Sad Little School" by Candice M. Kelsey
There once was a husband and wife who had lived in a big city out West. They were a happy couple who enjoyed teaching high school...
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"Exchange Rates for City Babies and Border Girls" by Ra'Niqua Lee
Spring break meant a trip south of Atlanta to Georgia’s fat bottom. Ama’s grandparents lived in a house there with two bedrooms, a single...
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"If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India..." by Sumitra Singam
If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India and His Brother Whom You’ve Never Met Conducts His Funeral, Then Where For You Paining? CW:...
May 13, 20234 min read
"A Menu For Tomorrow" by Shome Dasgupta
Appetizers I remember your fingertips—your fingertips. I remember your fingertips during our first dinner, and how I was nervous, but...
May 13, 20233 min read
"Nothing to Lose" by Aimee Truchan
Don’t turn around. Throw your wallet behind you,” the raspy voice says. My breath escapes into the early morning air in the form of a...
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"All the departing souls" by Sandra Arnold
A flash of fantail wing, a clack of beak on glass. Elena watches the bird zip between the windows of her study and the kitchen. She...
Apr 30, 20233 min read
"Flames" by Esther Byrne
From the diary of Cassandra Austen, sister of Jane Austen I have a choice, one which I fear may attract some consternation and regret....
Apr 30, 20232 min read
"Matinee" by Pedro Ponce
She liked doing it to music. It relaxed her, she said, helped her focus. “On what?” I asked. “The situation,” she said. The niche between...
Apr 30, 20234 min read
"The Ninth Life of Hel" by M. Rose Seaboldt
Hel is perched in the large bay window of Hemlock Tattoo Removal. Her serpentine tail curls around her, flicking in time with the sound...
Apr 30, 20234 min read
"Used Couches" by Joey Hedger
You find condom wrappers in the couch while we wait for the power to come back on. It is an old couch, covered in torn, brown faux...
Apr 16, 20232 min read
"Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda..." by Karen Walker
Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda, Dagmar, Maud, and grandchildren circa 1901 Long dresses still...
Apr 16, 20234 min read
"Third World Unbendable Man" by Jane Camoleze
My previous expectations regarding the hereafter were closer to worms than to bareass comrades. Amazingly enough, Death was not it, and...
Apr 16, 20236 min read
"In a Land Far Far Away" by Andrea Damic
A sudden tap on the shoulder made her twitch. She looked up at the scruffy bearded man as she yanked a little oval pill out of his hand...
Apr 2, 20232 min read
"A Former Apex Predator" by Chris Gilman Whitney
“Where does the moon go during the day?” The child stands with his hands in his pockets, his head craned towards the sky. A wide expanse...
Apr 2, 20236 min read
"Soft Serve" by Rico Cleffi
Note from author: Soft Serve is a little piece voiced by two narrators, one a young girl full of enthusiasm and just making her way into...
Mar 19, 20233 min read
"The Lap Dancer" by Elsie Bauchalter
Jody and I were in the strip club. Music blared and strobe lights pulsed on a small stage. In the spotlight, a dancer was wrapping, and...
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