"The House Ghosts All Read the Time Traveler’s Wife and..." by Janna Miller
The House Ghosts All Read the Time Traveler’s Wife and Now Have Something They Want to Tell You The morning ghosts are subtle and...
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- Jul 9
- 1 min
"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....
- Jul 9
- 2 min
"Same Old Story" & "Why You Should Never Read Women’s Magazines to Find Love…" by Amy Marques
Same Old Story She hadn’t been looking for love. That’s what everyone says, she knows. But really, she hadn’t. She had side-stepped love....
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"Stu" by Tim Craig
What I should have said to him that night on the bridge is Don’t let go, but what I actually said is Do it and whether he would have done...
- Mar 5
- 1 min
"You will not always have a warning these sudden, deadly floods are coming" by Jackie Morris
Every night Mother leaves a bath-towel by the kitchen fire, in case Oliver finds his way home. ‘He must be chilled to the marrow,’ she...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"ditch locket" by Monique Quintana
Crow abandoned the snow for another time, for leaves growing and horizontal. He walked until he came to a chinampa floating in the...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
“The Sweet Softness of Dates” & “Between Springtime and Night” by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
Sweet Softness of Dates She sits in her wicker chair, the one painted bright green because that’s how she likes it. She lets the sweet...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
"Defying Gravity" by Fiona McKay
On the way home from the funeral, I drive past the guardrail where the accident took place, the striped tape flickering in the wind. I...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
"The Music Teacher" & "The Missing Spice" by Sarvin Parviz
The Music Teacher For Negar Ighani We stood in a circle, patted our chests and thighs, sang and jumped then clapped. We rained, jumped...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
"The itchy dress" by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
The itchy dress and the rented colonial manor are ill-suited. Which is to say, they are not the right fit. Still, she stands obedient on...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 2 min
"Chauffeur" by John Riley
On the way to the airport on the edge of the city, he had asked the driver to pull over. He needed a break, just a moment, from so much...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk
CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Seven-year itch and other urban myths" by Slawka G. Scarso
'I didn't even want to come,' I moan. I walk up and down the beach, my bikini already dry, stopping to look at the burns covering my...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Boy Clouds of Xquic", "I Forget You", and "Saturns" by Monique Quintana
Boy Clouds of Xquic If she stays too long in the sea, she will see all her son’s bedroom wash by, shaking the trees. She heard he waited...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 1 min
"At Dupar’s Café" by Dylan Willoughby
He sat in an all-night diner. A waitress who resembled Bela Lugosi crept then flew towards him. He was reading Ibsen, which he regretted....
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"The Hygge Paradox" by Mileva Anastasiadou
He says we’re stressed, exhausted, I say that’s true but that’s life, he ponders, I don’t like life, he says, while he loves life, but...
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