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Aug 43 min read

"Tired of Tinder Titbits" by Lizzie Eldridge

He was a bit rough around the edges, but he’d do. You were bored of one-night stands, of being ghosted, of being told how [insert] clever...

Aug 42 min read

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"The Lexicon of Life" by Rachel Canwell

One downward sweeping stroke, barely kissed by two concave, backwards curls. Not quite a letter, a character unrecognizable, even to me....

"A Trick, Sure Enough" by Elizabeth Rosen

Aug 42 min read

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"A Trick, Sure Enough" by Elizabeth Rosen

The boxed baby was just over nine inches long. Pink-skinned. Pert. In the sunlight streaming through the high cedar branches, the woman...

"Return to Work" by Deepti Nalavade Mahule

Jul 212 min read

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"Return to Work" by Deepti Nalavade Mahule

Rush hour morning traffic on a weekday with the freeway resembling a parking lot. On the passenger seat of a car: a work bag, a lunch bag...

Jul 214 min read

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"Cahoots" by David Henson

For their fifth anniversary, Melinda suggests she and her husband, Martin, spice things up by parking in a secluded lane by the lake. The...

Jul 214 min read

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"Hurley's House" by M. Rose Seaboldt

“It’s perfect!” Johnny Hurley and Robbie Decker stood in front of a small, rundown house that was surrounded by overgrown weeds and...

Jul 211 min read

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"Irreversible" by John Szamosi

After listening to a speech on injustice, Cannon Fodder decided to petition the Council to turn him back into young people. He went to...

"Pronunciation is Everything" by Laura Cooney

Jul 212 min read

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"Pronunciation is Everything" by Laura Cooney

The Westwood Crochet Club had been running in the town of Newbattle Hove for decades. The three founding members had done no more than...

Jul 72 min read

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"Dreki" by Kathy Hoyle

Marta stares into the fissure, flinching as the heat blisters her cheeks. Her boy, Kristjan, has been missing for eleven days now, ever...

Jul 71 min read

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"Best Intentions" by Megan Hanlon

When heavy rains come, the driveways and sidewalks flood with earthworms. Long, skinny, pink ones; fat, short brown ones. Together but...

"Suppose Gertrude" by Graham Robert Scott

Jul 72 min read

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"Suppose Gertrude" by Graham Robert Scott

Suppose Gertrude, instead of saying yes, answers no. Oh, she thinks it through, in a long silence that go-between Polonius fills with...

Jul 74 min read

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"God on the Highway" by Swetha Amit

It was dark and rainy on the highway. Raindrops trickled on the windshield. Ma periodically put the wipers on. The roads were filled with...

Jul 72 min read

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"Beyond (1988)" by David Yourdon

My grandfather went on a fishing trip in the country around New Paltz. “He caught nine rainbow trout!” There was pride and a vestige of...

"For someone better at small talk" by Karen Walker

Jul 72 min read

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"For someone better at small talk" by Karen Walker

For someone better at small talk it would've been as easy as pie to delight while standing in line at the bakery behind a woman and a...

Jul 72 min read

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"Top Cat" by Mary Anne Mc Enery

A black cat with piercing yellow eyes leaped out the window of a suburban house, shattering glass in his wake. "Great entrance,...

"The Neighbourhood Watch" by Mathew Gostelow

Jul 74 min read

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"The Neighbourhood Watch" by Mathew Gostelow

CW: Violence When the beatings began, I wondered if I should intervene. But we were waiting for our new fridge to be delivered, and that...

Jul 74 min read

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"Roach" by Benjamin Ray Allee

There was a roach on Gracie’s upturned back when she woke. Her eyes opened to slivers of afternoon light cutting onto the sheets from her...

"What the Serial Killer Said" by Arthur Mandal

Jun 232 min read

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"What the Serial Killer Said" by Arthur Mandal

There’s a brand of packaged dates called ‘Deri Dates’. Tesco does them. Allow me a moment to express the disgust and repulsion this...

"The Night Jane Didn’t Come Out of The Chair" by Kate Faigen

Jun 233 min read

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"The Night Jane Didn’t Come Out of The Chair" by Kate Faigen

“When I saw you in half tonight,” Dustin said through beef-jerky breath, “I think I’m actually gonna saw you in half.” Jane smirked,...

"In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room, Aunt Flo Reads Female Frogs and Dragonflies May Feign Death to Avoid Mating" by Mikki Aronoff

Jun 231 min read

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"In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room, Aunt Flo Reads Female Frogs and Dragonflies May Feign Death to Avoid Mating" by Mikki Aronoff

When Jake’s home randy from trucking and candy, Flo’s amphibious—a moist, round thing. She sticks her skinny limbs out rigid—her rigor...