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Jun 12, 20224 min read

"Roswell/Nebraska" by Franny Mestrich

I wanted to see an alien so I drove out to Roswell, but they didn’t realize I was looking for them until after I left town. It was three...

Jun 12, 20223 min read

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"Mac, Beth" by Patrick Nevins

They were sitting on the back deck in the dying light, Mac drinking Scotch, Beth reading the paper. They’d been there for hours,...

"The Secret Life of Dance Shoes" by Cecilia Kennedy

May 29, 20223 min read

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"The Secret Life of Dance Shoes" by Cecilia Kennedy

Dance shoes awaken to jolts and pounding, shaken alive on the factory floor. In our case, we were also enveloped in a strange mist that...

May 29, 20223 min read

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"Iris" by Mar Ovsheid

There were worms in Trajuni’s eyes, but she ignored them for a few weeks because she had too much laundry busying her arms. She had too...

May 29, 20223 min read

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"Pneuma" by Sebastian Vice

The sun beat down on my dangling corpse. With visitors long since gone, I’m left in isolation, suffocating on a cross. Don’t call me a...

"Laugh All You Want but I See the Truth" by Keely O'Shaughnessy

May 1, 20222 min read

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"Laugh All You Want but I See the Truth" by Keely O'Shaughnessy

I can sense the sceptics. Those who are only after a show, something to tell their friends, a story for their blog post: Ten Most Common...

May 1, 20224 min read

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"Twin Towers" by Don Stoll

An aide told the press that his boss had rejected the idea of having His image added to Mount Rushmore because South Dakota was “a...

Apr 17, 20222 min read

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"Subway Sonata" by Mark Blickley

Greg Burton kicked an empty beer can up and down a freezing subway platform. His sister Carol complained about the noise he was making,...

Apr 17, 20223 min read

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"Culinary Legacy" by Eleonora Balsano

When I spot Nonna’s Fiat 127 across the ice-cream parlour, my heart skips a few beats. I tug at my white denim miniskirt, desperate to...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

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"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk

CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

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"The Last Birthday Party" by Hanne Larsson

You’ve been here before. The sea nips at your toes, the sand cool after so much walking that your shoes have almost shredded away and...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

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"The Fruit I Gave Away" by Margo Griffin

We arrive at 9AM, and it’s already a sticky, sweltering summer morning. The cars are lining up as visitors come early to pick their...

Apr 3, 20224 min read

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"Gerty", "Spit", and "Blush" by Arden Hunter

Gerty He had a binder clip holding his hat together. It was one of the first things people noticed when they met him, though most were...

Apr 3, 20224 min read

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"Solitude at the Falls" by Sara Dobbie

Clifton Hill is awake and pulsing, moving like a living, breathing thing. A voice radiates from a loudspeaker inviting tourists into the...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

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"Water, Water, Everywhere" by Samuel Edwards

My Grandfather left me three things in his will; a John Wayne-signed movie poster from Rio Bravo, an assortment of low denomination coins...

Apr 3, 20223 min read

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“Maybe Soon if Not Now” by Rashmi Agrawal

He kisses me deeply, his cardamom-flavored saliva mingling with mine. Cardamom disgusts me; I like ginger tea. Yet he refuses to add...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

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"Chick-la" by Nora Nadjarian

She’s the only thing left in the freezer, a chicken, hard as a rock. He calls her Chick-la as an endearment. His ex disappeared one fine...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

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"Bullet Holes in San Bernardino" by Kate Flannery

I didn’t notice the bullet holes right away. They had hit the faux wood paneling in what the lawyer called his conference room, just...

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"The Language of Flowers" by Rachel Canwell

Every day, in the window of the house with the red door, there are flowers. Flowers sitting in pride of place. Flowers spilling their...

Mar 20, 20222 min read

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"NOTE TO SELF: JUST STOP" by Laura Stamps

1. “Good girl,” I say to the little dog when she pees beneath the palm tree outside my apartment building. That’s what the training video...