"CRUSH" by Karen Crawford
We're all lips and limbs under a velvet blanket when my crush's mother barges in, she’s all hands when she yells whaddya youse doing,...
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- Apr 30
- 4 min
"The Ninth Life of Hel" by M. Rose Seaboldt
Hel is perched in the large bay window of Hemlock Tattoo Removal. Her serpentine tail curls around her, flicking in time with the sound...
- Apr 16
- 4 min
"You Ask Me What I Want" & "Hobbies" by Emma Burnett
You ask what I want and you look expectant. I want to tell you that I want a day in a hotel room with you. I want a nowhere space, where...
- Apr 2
- 2 min
"Re/locate" by Amorak Huey
You fall out the bottom of a bad dream and land ass-up in the swamp your uncle ran off to after the car accident that killed his wife....
- Mar 5
- 2 min
"The Cook, The Queen, and the Hammer" by Mikki Aronoff
I can say now that maybe I shouldn’t have pestered the chef and irritated the hungry folks lined up and shuffling behind me in a queue...
- Jan 8
- 2 min
"First Things" by Rebecca Dempsey
The first thing a baby can do is cry. Stimulus response, vocalised, after that first smack. Tears, and the wordless wail. That tap. Hush...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
"Curiosity" by Lori Cramer
Every Tuesday night the guy in the red baseball hat sits alone at a table for two in the café area of the bookstore, focused on the...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
“Company Town” by Keith J. Powell
On graduation night, we reveled around clandestine bonfires until the sky purpled and dawn broke. Livers pickled, we slouched back into...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
"One Little Apple Came Tumbling Down" by Emily Macdonald
“Just five minutes. I won’t be long. Try to be a good girl.” Mummy makes her wait in the car. Mummy doesn’t like to pay for parking. ...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
"Inventory" by Kel Warren
This is the inventory of what I now have: One set monogrammed sheets, stored under the bed. One set, once-washed, petal pink sheets, on...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
“Crow Child Finds his True Calling” by Mary Anne Mc Enery
At birth, he looked inky black with corkscrew hair tufts. His ancestors were magicians and arcane sorcerers. At two years, his voice...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 2 min
"My brother is my dog" by Karen Walker
Dennis knocks on my door before 8 a.m. It’s a relief to see him. Like it is when Doug’s cold nose greets me in the morning. My older...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
“Last Days of May”, “Break Room, Smitty’s On The Levee” & “The Wardrobe” by Michael Cocchiarale
LAST DAYS OF MAY After my last exam, I stopped to see my brother, who’d just invented a holiday that required him to call off work....
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
"SISTER AGE" by Cheryl Snell
Better twenty in the seventies than seventy in the twenties He did her a favor, donating her fake-fur tiger-striped mini-dress to...
- May 1, 2022
- 1 min
"Harold Street" by Paul Dufficy
They are with a friend of mine in our share house but sometimes we find ourselves alone and we talk about both our worlds. I have never...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
"C’est La Vie Ranch Inc LLC Est. 2010" by Pam Avoledo
Welcome to C’est La Vie Ranch. Please take your personalized itineraries for your stay, I say to the thirtysomething women in Neiman...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Childhood Photos; Mother, Missing" by Fiona McKay
The ice-cream soda comes in brown bottles, sometimes with a packet of crisps, as we play under the table, under everyone’s feet, in the...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 1 min
"The Key to Erica's Lemon and Fig Cupcakes" by Karen Walker
2-1/2 cups plain flour: mother-in-law Vera 8 tablespoons butter: Dan, my husband. 1-3/4 cups sugar: “Let’s host my sister’s engagement...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 1 min
"Scream Jerome" by Cindy Hossain
I close the door and turn the key for the very last time, hopeful that my unwanted guest would remain behind the lock. At first, I had...
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