"Same Old Story" & "Why You Should Never Read Women’s Magazines to Find Love…" by Amy Marques
Same Old Story She hadn’t been looking for love. That’s what everyone says, she knows. But really, she hadn’t. She had side-stepped love....
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- Jul 9
- 4 min
"Become Her Too" by Nayt Rundquist
CW: violence She’s fuzzy. She might shatter into her pieces—a Lego spaceship bouncing down every stair. She’s buzzing like something bad...
- Jun 25
- 2 min
"GET RID OF FAT FAST NOT A FAD DIET" by Achi Mishra
CW: Self-harm They bought tickets for India over the summer and the first thing she did was weigh herself. She looked at the number on...
- Jun 25
- 2 min
"Altered Form of Matter" by Andrea Damic
Have you noticed how the skin on your elbows changes as you get older? You haven’t until just the other day. You have penciled this in...
- Jun 25
- 2 min
"The Fish House" by Suzanne Hicks
It always smelled like there was oil bubbling in the frying pan at the lake cabin. In the mornings, the smell of eggs and bacon mingled...
- Jun 25
- 2 min
"Somewhere They Worship Fruit" by Michelle Reale
There were prickly pears everywhere. They nested in baskets and bowls were tucked into bureau drawers, in the glove compartments of cars,...
- Jun 25
- 4 min
"Secrets I Keep From My Husband" by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury
Timir likes being the little spoon and I like burying my face in his thick tousled curls; jet black like the darkness in his name....
- Jun 25
- 1 min
"The Footman Takes You Aside Prior to Your Audience with The Dairy Queen" by Mikki Aronoff
The Dairy Queen pumps her cows’ teats like she milks the truth and mines for lies, plies her subjects with the...
- Jun 25
- 3 min
"Easy Street" by Austin Treat
Mary, Mother of God, All she wanted from Man, her second husband, was honesty, “hot coal white lies burn faster than gasoline.” Without...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"With apologies, from Furnace Creek" by Kirsti MacKenzie
Could you forgive me if I told you the air was warm as my skin, that there is no sound in the desert but your own shaking breath, that...
- Jun 11
- 4 min
"Mimesis" by Noor Us Sabah Tauqeer
Jahanara stood sentry outside a place she had never visited. A place she had never had reason enough to visit. A bank. In her browned...
- Jun 11
- 3 min
"Road Trip" by Nolcha Fox & Barbara Leonhard
The moon is a vacancy sign, and I want to pull in for a rest. But the parking lot is full of stars, their headlights blinking through the...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"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...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"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
- 3 min
"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...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"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...
- Jun 11
- 3 min
"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...
- May 28
- 4 min
"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...
- May 28
- 2 min
"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
- 4 min
"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...
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