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Feb 42 min read

"Johnny Tree Counter" by Will Musgrove

At a work function, Brad, our resident brown-noser and office know-it-all, told our general manager that Earth harbors more trees than...

Feb 44 min read

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"Signseers" by Sarp Sozdinler

A face so beautiful you’d hate seeing it age. He had to die young. Almost. Fingers, hard-knuckled yet so delicate, at once pulling and...

Feb 42 min read

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"All At Sea" by Geraldine McCarthy

He drives the coast road as if it were a motorway. I hold my breath as the car careens around bends, praying we don’t meet a tractor, or...

"Sunday at the Farmer's Market" & "RSVP" by Amy Marques

Feb 42 min read

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"Sunday at the Farmer's Market" & "RSVP" by Amy Marques

Sunday at the Farmer’s Market Once upon a long time ago, Helena wore low heels, but now even orthopedic sneakers don’t keep her feet from...

Jan 283 min read

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"Hiding" by Lauren Dennis

I was the only one who noticed Jenny’s poorly concealed black eye as she bent down to hide another Easter egg. She used to be a beauty...

"Part Delicacy, Part Despair" by Leslie Cairns

Jan 283 min read

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"Part Delicacy, Part Despair" by Leslie Cairns

I’m Aware that when I do all the dog walks at night, I should carry my car keys. That my job is laced with sloppy kisses, but just under...

Jan 214 min read

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"Listen, Ruthie" by L Mari Harris

I’m at my first court-mandated anger management meeting when a woman with frosted pink lipstick bleeding into her smoker’s lines leans in...

Jan 213 min read

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"Electric Chair Suplex" by J.B. Kalf

I sat in the hospital waiting room in my full regalia — blue sequins chafing my thighs while the cut tee I was wearing made me a bit too...

Jan 72 min read

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"Mimesis" by Luanne Castle

after Remedios Varo’s painting Mimesis I have become the focus of my tabby cat, Mimesis. She will ignore flies and mice, but rather than...

Jan 72 min read

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"Vacuum" by B F Jones

Content Warning: Suicide/Death 13th of October 1989 was the day mum vacuumed the Lego. I remember the date, because it was the day after...

Jan 74 min read

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"Seven Nation Army" by nat raum

On a mild night in late August, my mother dropped us off outside of the stadium, handed me twenty dollars, and went on her way. I looked...

"Monster in the Stairwell at Work" & "The Mothman's Bride" by Cecilia Kennedy

Jan 73 min read

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"Monster in the Stairwell at Work" & "The Mothman's Bride" by Cecilia Kennedy

Monster in the Stairwell at Work The elevator at work won’t reach the top floor, so I take it as far as it’ll go and find the stairs, and...

"Empty Words" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

Jan 72 min read

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"Empty Words" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

CW: mention of miscarriage It’s the tilt of her head that catches your attention first. Such an attitude! You envy her for a fleeting...

Jan 43 min read

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"Selling" by George Oliver

We sell popcorn. It’s our job, even if it’s not a sufficient economic provider. We abide by rules and maintain standards and report to an...

Jan 42 min read

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"Withering Plants" by CLS Sandoval

My nana used to have a patio at her apartment that was full of lush, green potted plants. I remember her taking such pride in opening...

Jan 13 min read

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"Steady Eddie Murray" by Jon Doughboy

It’s September and I’m ten years old and eating a Sabrett hot dog at Shea as the Mets lose to the Expos. The 1992 Mets may have gone down...

"The Thing About Girls" by Catherine Roberts

Jan 14 min read

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"The Thing About Girls" by Catherine Roberts

We’re in your garden eating dried apricots when you tell me you’re moving to France. I straighten my spine, swallow the waxy fruit. “I...

"The happiest Junior Support Desk Associate ever" by Karen Walker

Dec 12, 20232 min read

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"The happiest Junior Support Desk Associate ever" by Karen Walker

After a year at Alliance Northeast, I'd buy a car. Become like everyone else at AN who takes the subway though they could drive to work....

Nov 26, 20232 min read

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"October November" by Anna Fernandes

She’s out here again, head bowed, trying to scrape up our dead skin cells. Or maybe not skin, but hair or coughed-up fragments of lung....

Nov 26, 20232 min read

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"Dead Sea Scrolls" by Geoffrey Bunting

1. When Madee and I split, all I thought about was the language we lost. Words that I was no longer allowed to speak because they were...