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Dec 12, 20234 min read

"Unfinished Business" by A. R. Tivadar

Diana parked in front of the abandoned house and made her way inside. She carefully opened the loose-hanging door and walked over creaky...

"Ceremony for a mouse not long gone", "Charity shop book", "Subject"…by Emma Burnett

Dec 12, 20234 min read

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"Ceremony for a mouse not long gone", "Charity shop book", "Subject"…by Emma Burnett

Ceremony for a mouse not long gone I can see the ghost of an outline through my mostly closed eyes. The light is still grey. She touches...

Nov 26, 20233 min read

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"Consequences" by Lucy Brighton

“They’re here again. Alfred! Can you bloody believe it?” I twitch open the curtains, “The girl is licking the walls, does nobody teach...

Nov 12, 202310 min read

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"The Birthday Party" by Ken Foxe

The eyes of the two brothers met across the crowded room; each glancing briefly at the other, an unbridgeable chasm of two lives gone in...

Nov 12, 20235 min read

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"The Walrus Cometh" by Susan Andrelchik

At first it was just Starbucks but then the old ones discovered the independent coffee shops. There were so many new patrons that the...

"Letter From a Hidden Mother" by Lori Barrett

Oct 3, 20233 min read

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"Letter From a Hidden Mother" by Lori Barrett

Greetings! Tis I penning this missive neath a wretchedly dark and dusty blanket. Little Arnold rests on my lap, as I endeavor to hold him...

Sep 17, 20233 min read

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"Heuristical Me" by William M. McIntosh

I got a message from you last night. It said you felt a lot of crazy ways that I didn’t know you felt, and it said a lot more than that....

Aug 20, 20235 min read

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"Being the Bear" by Michele Markarian

“All I have to do is put on a bear costume and march for two hours?” Jen asked. “Yes.” The casting agent on the other end of the phone...

"Wanted- Well-Mannered Ghost To Haunt Brooklyn Apartment" by Luc Diamant

Jul 9, 20231 min read

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"Wanted- Well-Mannered Ghost To Haunt Brooklyn Apartment" by Luc Diamant

I (23F) am looking for a ghost (M/F/NB, 21-99 at time of death, dead for <50 years) to haunt a 3-bedroom 3rd-floor apartment in Flatbush....

"All in the name of research" by Emma Burnett

Jun 25, 20231 min read

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"All in the name of research" by Emma Burnett

I told her not to run, that it wouldn’t hurt. It’s just a tooth and, also, it’s for science. I told her we’d put it under the pillow,...

"VS Naipaul’s Ghost Haunts POC characters of White Authors" by Shahriar Shaams

May 13, 20233 min read

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"VS Naipaul’s Ghost Haunts POC characters of White Authors" by Shahriar Shaams

The late Trinidadian author’s ghost has lately been observed hovering around the merry colored-creations of several well-meaning white...

Apr 30, 20239 min read

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"Save the Big One" by Michael Lenart

Harris Caldwell—retired public defender; amateur woodworker; frequent apple juice drinker; thrice-a-day tooth brusher—died just now in...

"The Process" by Jillian S. Benedict and Michael Cocchiarale

Apr 30, 20239 min read

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"The Process" by Jillian S. Benedict and Michael Cocchiarale

We talk a lot about process—not outcome—and trying to consistently take all the best information you can and consistently make good...

Apr 30, 20235 min read

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"Rocks" by Tyler Plofker

I've been stacking rocks. Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary—I don't know. We learned that in school last year, yes, sure, but I don't...

Apr 16, 202313 min read

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"My Ninth Birthday" by Ben Shahon

I remember my ninth birthday like it was yesterday, because I woke up that morning, and I started to wonder when my mom and dad would...

"All the Single Women" by Christine H. Chen

Apr 16, 20231 min read

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"All the Single Women" by Christine H. Chen

All the Single Women were invited to the pilot program of HappilyEverAfter where the newly invented HomoSapiens module would spit out...

Apr 2, 20237 min read

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"Hunger in the Blizzard" by Mark Tulin

Hunger doesn't always jive with common sense. I guess that's why I went out into a February blizzard to the grocery store when it would...

"Issue #43: The Supervillain Zoom Interview" by Joshua Grasso

Feb 19, 202310 min read

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"Issue #43: The Supervillain Zoom Interview" by Joshua Grasso

One by one, the headshots popped to life on the Zoom conference which was supposed to have started promptly at 12:30 (it was 6 minutes...

Feb 19, 20239 min read

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"Dime Mouth" By Tyler Plofker

I sit down at the diner and order a cold blueberry pancake and wait for Jenny, who asked me via text to go sit down at the diner and...

Feb 19, 20239 min read

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"I am a plastic bag" by Lorna Collins

My name is Gavin. My claim to fame is that I am reusable. I can be filled with shopping, time and time again. Multiple use is my raison...