"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...
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- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
"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...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Enbees" by Nick Olson
Wyfy had the metal man in their mind again while tilling in the field, near daybreak, most everyone else asleep aside from Wyfy’s partner...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Love Has Rules" by Francine Witte
Love Has Rules And you can’t change ‘em. I told this to Harley again and again. Been this way forever, I’d say. He’d ignore me, but still...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 7 min
"Pelvis", " Tupelo", and "The Unexploded Bomb" by Kieran Wyatt
Pelvis I’m wiping Mrs. Carleton’s backside when she tells me she has a secret. ‘You won’t believe it,’ she says. I help her to stand,...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
"Big Top" by Cath Barton
It was the brightness of it I saw first, red and yellow radiating stripes, forming and dissolving in front of my eyes as we galloped...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
"The Woman Who Needed to Run" by Emma McEvoy
She pulls on her running shoes and slips unnoticed out the back door, down the rain-slicked path, and through the garden gate where she...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"After Dinner She Came Up" by Julia Ruth Smith
She was not what I’d been expecting; not less but somehow not quite enough. She was a stunner, slim waist, cross-legged now on the rug; a...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"When She Set the Alarm for Two" by Jenny Wong
Luna and John sat side by side, a pair of clocks unwound into stillness. Their faces stared forward. Backs leaned up against a cracked...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Possession" by Karen Lethlean
His first big mistake was telling me. You gotta love over-sharing in the office. Left himself wide open, Gaz did. Never let a chance go...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"The Christmas Concert, Front Row" by Rachel Canwell
I am in the church hall when those first notes begin. Like crystallised raindrops landing in a pail. Your song. Familiar, unexpected,...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
"Monologue Intérieur" by Chakrika
I feel like Pluto. That is to say I feel for it. Amidst days that have been like a sore, numb limb, I have only experienced a sensation...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Shallow waters" by B F Jones
They get drenched between the cab and the front door. Quick Daddy! The twins laugh-scream, wetter by the second as he fumbles for his...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 1 min
"Never wake your sleeping hero" by Kik Lodge
Never wake your sleeping hero because he’s probably dream-drooling over the hottie he’s with in Gala, coconut oiling her bum cheeks, and...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 3 min
"The Camel" by Margo Griffin
Forever relegated to the role of the elder and more responsible child, I delivered almost every sibling disaster headline to my mother....
- Jan 2, 2022
- 2 min
"Men Who Cross the Border" by Francois Bereaud
It happens on a Thursday. The morning offers the usual odors: armpits, assholes, instant coffee, and cheap cigarettes dominate, but,...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"The Rest is Lost" by Julia Ruth Smith
It was a toffee door, open for everyone, closed after midnight. There was family and dogs on the staircase; coffee-drop lozenges going up...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Created" by Sky Sprayberry
The reports of my creation were greatly exaggerated. Everyone believed that Prometheus carefully crafted me from clay, that Athena...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Inked Lines" by Rachel Canwell
She pushes her hip against his. Slender teenage hips, denim-clad and barely there. She can feel a burn beneath the fabric, chafing on her...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Games night" by Bonnie Meekums
I laid it out very carefully this time. I didn’t want to lose any pieces, just in case everyone turned up. Last time, there was only me...
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