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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 445 min read
"The Hotel Harris" by Eryne Thibeau
“How did you come to know Catherine Cormier?” “Kitty? We both lived at The Harris.” “The Hotel Harris, downtown?” “Yes, that’s right.”...
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"Rag Doll Heart" by Robert Firpo-Cappiello
I’m eleven. Kneeling beside my bed, hands clasped. “Uncle Brendan? Are you up there? Sister Claire says now that you’re in heaven you...
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, 20244 min read
"Clusterfuck" by Maura Yzmore
“Let me just send this one email,” Derek says, his eyes already on the phone, thumbs flying across the screen. He’s not expecting me to...
Oct 13, 20244 min read
"Restaurant Review" by Sherry Cassells
I just read the beginning of a restaurant review in which the writer said the one thing chefs have in common is a mother who can cook, so...
Sep 24, 20247 min read
"Subterranean Sales Journey" by Mark Burrow
Everyone said the sniff was to blame for Rob going off the rails. They thought it was why he stopped hitting his sales targets. Ruben...
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 18, 202415 min read
"After the Fall, 1975" by Sally Reiser Simon
Dzung Life sure is trippy sometimes. Take today. I’m sittin’ in a brand new ’75 Chevy Impala across from my dad. Two weeks ago, he was a...
Aug 4, 202412 min read
"You Are Here" by Lyra Cupala
5 pm. Flight canceled, a fourteen-hour layover. Ernest sits in a vinyl seat, a little girl wriggling on the seat behind him, and calls...
Aug 4, 20248 min read
"Miracle Missiles" by Robert Firpo-Cappiello
I don’t exactly know where my dreams end and my memories begin, but I’m pretty sure that most of this is true. The summer I turned five....
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 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 4, 202421 min read
"The Post-Adolescent World" by Justin Aylward
Lori Martin was careful never to mix up her textbooks with her client book, which by the end of term was almost full. It was hard to...
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...
May 4, 20242 min read
"We Don’t Need Another Birddog" by Jeff Harvey
If I ever have a wife, there’s no way I’ll buy another hunting jacket over fixing the leaky toilet and the broken backdoor lock and if I...
Mar 17, 20242 min read
"I Got Bats" by Sherry Cassells
Every so often – such a vague beginning I know but stick with me – every so often Marty calls me on the telephone, always the same wet...
Mar 17, 202410 min read
"Watchers of the Sky" by Robert Rosen
In the fading evening light of summer, 1961, Frank rests his palms on the rough wooden kitchen table. Through the window, just beyond the...
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