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"Sun" by Katelin Farnsworth
Once Stu decides to leave, that’s it (except not really, no, not at all). He moves into action at once (or, at least, he tells himself...
Jan 423 min read
"Act as if You Belong" by Kevin Yeoman
I was standing outside the theater with Redford after the show, mingling with what was left of the crowd. It was a cold, late-fall...
Dec 15, 20242 min read
"Broken Clock" by Zary Fekete
It’s a Seiko wall model hung in the middle of the waiting room. The battery is still working, but the second hand is stuck. It jitters in...
Nov 17, 202422 min read
"Finding Serenity" by Micah Muldowney
She looks spent. The coldness of the light has saturated her skin and her eyes and even her hair. They look dull and flat and hard like...
Oct 13, 202425 min read
"Fledgling" by Mat Lebowitz
It was her, Clara Hart. It had been nearly fifteen years since I had seen her, but the name returned with the impact of a reckoning. She...
Sep 30, 20244 min read
"Cinnamon Toast Crunch Niblings" by T.L. Tomljanovic
Koltyn liked Cinnamon Toast Crunch best. It turned him into a giant, grinding dozens of tiny pieces of toast between his teeth, savoring...
Sep 30, 202414 min read
"The Ludologist" by Jack Whelan
Lewis Vern was a self-proclaimed ludologist—that is, he claimed to know all things games. To his credit, he had mastered four different...
Sep 3, 202414 min read
"The Festa of Santa Marija" by Sara Sheldrake
On a breathless night in Malta, light fragmented by bedroom shutters pries Maria’s eyes open. She leaves her empty bed. The church bells...
Aug 18, 20247 min read
"My Clawfoot Tub" by Sloan Sprau
I’ve figured out that if I run the bath for 10 minutes on full heat and two minutes ice-cold, the water in my clawfoot tub will reach the...
Aug 4, 202414 min read
"Thirty Broken Birds" by Michelle R. Brady
I. Quest Before what happened to Christine, before arriving in Iraq, before even leaving Nebraska, all we knew for sure was that there...
Jul 21, 20247 min read
"Day of Connection" by Joey Hedger
There were plans for a party at Ava’s place to celebrate the moment when the continents would converge, when land would finally touch...
Jul 7, 20244 min read
"The Microwave Clock is Unreliable" by Richard A Shury
There’s nothing I’m more sick of than the reliable tick of my grandmother’s grandfather clock, standing watch as it does over a living...
Jun 23, 202456 min read
"Rose of Sterling" by Gary Campanella
Part 1: Down by the Lake "Hey Tin Man, you think I could walk across that lake?" "I don't think the ice is thick enough, Rose." "No....
Jun 9, 20242 min read
"Skinnymalink Melodeonlegs Big Banana Feet" by Sophie Thompson
I’ll never forget his face, wide open to the harsh light of the screen, drinkin’ it all in. At’s why it happened, Da said. He was all...
May 27, 202413 min read
"Mr. Nakamura" by M.E. Proctor
We are, by nature, oddballs. Call us weird, extraordinary, freaky. Monsters. I will not dispute or argue the label. From the perspective...
May 12, 20245 min read
"Try Again" by Brian Greene
Claire was Chris’s new roommate. Chris was after me to try dating her. Chris and I had been friends for about 12 years by then. We were...
May 4, 202412 min read
"The God Hole" by Dave McNamara
Trixie had been writing for 10 years before she finally got published. It was a long slog, with dozens and dozens of bad short stories, a...
Feb 18, 202411 min read
"From the Rubble" by M.E. Proctor
My friend reminded me of a house fallen in disrepair. The slanting roof, the peeling paint, the gutters hanging loose. It can take ten...
Feb 4, 20242 min read
"How to get safely home from Taronga Zoo" by Elisa Dominique Rivera
First, don’t even be at the zoo during a forecasted storm even though your mum guilted you into taking your Tita, her not-so-favourite...
Feb 4, 20243 min read
"Poseidon has a Party and Wakes Hungover" by Joyce Bingham
The dried crunch of seaweed brought a crowd of swarming flies, the buzzing intermingled with gull calls. The tang of salt and iodine...
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