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Apr 30, 20234 min read

"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...

"You Ask Me What I Want" & "Hobbies" by Emma Burnett

Apr 16, 20234 min read

literary short fiction

"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, 20232 min read

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"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....

"The Cook, The Queen, and the Hammer" by Mikki Aronoff

Mar 5, 20232 min read

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"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, 20232 min read

literary short fiction

"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, 20221 min read

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"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, 20221 min read

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“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...

"One Little Apple Came Tumbling Down" by Emily Macdonald

Sep 5, 20222 min read

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"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, 20221 min read

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"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...

“Crow Child Finds his True Calling” by Mary Anne Mc Enery

Aug 22, 20221 min read

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“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, 20222 min read

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"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...

“Last Days of May”, “Break Room, Smitty’s On The Levee” & “The Wardrobe” by Michael Cocchiarale

Jul 24, 20223 min read

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“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, 20222 min read

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"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, 20221 min read

micro fiction

"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, 20221 min read

micro fiction

"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, 20221 min read

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"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, 20221 min read

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"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, 20211 min read

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"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...