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Aug 22, 20221 min read

“Nose Ring” by Karen Arnold

Late afternoon heat makes a jungle of the canal. Curtained by purple Himalayan balsam, carpeted with sulphur yellow water lilies. The...

"Momentarily Neither Here Nor There. Until We Are." by Laura Cooney

Aug 21, 20222 min read

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"Momentarily Neither Here Nor There. Until We Are." by Laura Cooney

I sit, You sit, We sit. You’re talking, I’m listening. I can clearly see your lips moving and I can hear the individual words you’re...

Aug 21, 20222 min read

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"Mira" by Amelia David

When I think about the day we met our daughter, I can only recall how much my stomach hurt. I had spent a better part of that morning...

Aug 21, 20221 min read

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"Rite of Spring" by Virginia Foley

He sang Gershwin as we strolled down Montreal sidewalks, past budding trees confined to boulevard boxes, where dogs peed against them,...

Aug 21, 20221 min read

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"I think I can fly" by Jim Almo

CW: Implied violence I lean out from the wooden porch railing. Dry flakes of white lead paint chip off and mix with the sweat under my...

Aug 7, 20221 min read

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“The River's Gift” by Phyllis Rittner

October, seven months after the world stopped, I walk the path by heart. To my left, the river reflects a chalk blue sky as leaves ripple...

Aug 7, 20223 min read

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"Courage" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

We’re walking down a narrow alley when the people on the balconies above us begin to applaud. Not sure why we might be so entertaining,...

Aug 7, 20223 min read

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“Third Generation” by George Oliver

They start innocuous, as playful mispronunciations of my surname. I blink and the interactions have escalated to being pinned against a...

Aug 7, 20222 min read

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“In the house..” by Anita Goveas

…the man and the woman live without speaking. They’ve turned their attention elsewhere. In the spare room, the woman feeds calciworms to...

Jul 10, 20222 min read

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"Slow Burn" by Mar Ovsheid

The Combustión Lenta chile is a little bomb I swallowed when I was 23 and still absolutely positive I’d live forever, or at the very...

Jul 10, 20222 min read

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"Better To Burn Out" by Samuel Edwards

CW: death/suicide. A bird of flame. A beast of heat. Mythical and magical with a dash of elegance. The Phoenix soars the open skies on a...

"A Hot Day on the Prairie, an Unhappy Girl and a Fly" by Maria Thomas

Jul 10, 20223 min read

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"A Hot Day on the Prairie, an Unhappy Girl and a Fly" by Maria Thomas

There’s a bovine fly on the screen-door, ripe as a gooseberry and glistening with blood. Mercy ignores the white-noise buzz, cuts the...

Jul 10, 20223 min read

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"Wish Upon A Satellite" by E.M. Lark

I tasted summer on her lips. Cotton candy, chapstick, cherry Coke with rum. Her hands met the shorelines of my hips and I was done for. I...

Jun 27, 20222 min read

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"Go Fish" by Sherry Cassells

My father told me if I wanted to catch fish I had to think like a fish except he said it with an r like frish and an extra s and h like...

"Crows Have Surrounded Her House for a Week Now" by Karen Gonzalez-Videla

Jun 27, 20222 min read

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"Crows Have Surrounded Her House for a Week Now" by Karen Gonzalez-Videla

In the mornings, they step on the rotten branches of her used-to-be vegetable garden and sneak their beaks into the holes within them;...

"Haircut; An Attempt At Something Significant" by Mugdhaa Ranade

Jun 27, 20222 min read

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"Haircut; An Attempt At Something Significant" by Mugdhaa Ranade

Snip. Onomatopoeia. Except, when you are an amateur attempting to cut hair for the first time, it sounds more like: Sss-nn-iii-p. No,...

Jun 27, 20223 min read

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"sweet services" by Karl Khumo Calagan

The funeral home I worked at began as an anomaly. Before Sweet Services popped up at the corner of the town’s only intersection, funeral...

"When Medzmama’s Eyes Sparkle, You Know to Watch Your Back" by Lindy Biller

Jun 12, 20225 min read

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"When Medzmama’s Eyes Sparkle, You Know to Watch Your Back" by Lindy Biller

“Don’t be shy,” she says. “I’ve got a surprise for you!” You are six, and Medzmama is sitting on that big woven carpet with the cranes...

"Little Man" by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra

Jun 12, 20222 min read

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"Little Man" by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra

When I am a man, I will wear tuxedos to school, and a top hat, and say “Good day” to every person that I meet, even if I don’t know what...

Jun 12, 20222 min read

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"Halfway There" by Robert Scott

‘Fifty!’ she shouts into the phone. ‘It’s like my life’s over. It’s going to be illness, declining powers, and slipping away. Every day...