"The Birthday Party" by Ken Foxe
The eyes of the two brothers met across the crowded room; each glancing briefly at the other, an unbridgeable chasm of two lives gone in...
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Sep 3, 202312 min read
"The One Alone" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
Pietro Brown was his name; when you were first getting to know him, and queried the Italo-English name, he’d just shrug, say something to...
Aug 20, 20238 min read
"World on Fire" by Juliette Adair
If you’re ever going to amount to anything, said Dad, you’d better The phone rang and interrupted him, but Emma knew what he was going to...
Jul 9, 20232 min read
"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 25, 202318 min read
"Restoration" by Gavin Turner
Please forget about my name. It’s Constance Bytheway. I always felt like I stole it from an old lady when I was born. Perhaps, in time, I...
Jun 11, 20236 min read
"Sundries and Forevers" by Sam Milligan
There’s a fire somewhere over the ridgeline and the river hasn’t frozen like it usually does this time of year and the line at Fred and...
May 28, 202312 min read
"Blue" by Mea Felder
A feather like quality, a child’s cruelty. Holding the prejudice of the adult— of a burden to fat to carry in their little arms, they...
May 28, 20233 min read
"Summer Days and Winter Nights" by Kevina Wright
I try to look cool like the girls I’ve seen you drive around before. Trying to pretend the sweat beading my forehead is my natural dew...
May 13, 20236 min read
"How I Learned To Love My Busted Grill" by Bud Sturguess
America's greatest First Daughter, the lovely Chelsea Clinton, graced the bedroom wall of every teenage boy from my generation. She was,...
May 13, 20234 min read
"Mother and Child" by Richard Stimac
For the first few years, when his father and Addie went to the Barracks, his father would stop by the welcome center and ask a volunteer...
Apr 2, 20233 min read
"Maestro" by Johan Alexander
The last time I saw Tango Master was downtown in front of Veracrúz Church. A busted gramophone sputtered on the sidewalk in front of the...
Mar 5, 20239 min read
"Self Loathing" by Danica Popovic
“There’s hardly anything left. It won’t be long before it’s just your eyes,” Belle said, holding the sides of my head and examining my...
Mar 5, 20233 min read
"Losing Face" & "Papaya Summers" by Amy Marques
Losing Face Don’t look in the mirror. Tilt ten degrees down: the phone, not the face. Tilt face to one side. Smile. Not a real smile. No...
Feb 19, 20239 min read
"Dime Mouth" By Tyler Plofker
I sit down at the diner and order a cold blueberry pancake and wait for Jenny, who asked me via text to go sit down at the diner and...
Jan 22, 20239 min read
"Tectonics" by Jocelyn Jane Cox
Appointment 1 Instead of stomping the slush off her boots, Regina wipes her feet on the mat with a restrained marching motion, almost...
Jan 22, 20233 min read
"A Walk in the Snow" by Monica Wang
The airbnb listing said Reconnect with yourself in nature and mindful solitude, and if that's not the realest thing I've read in years....
Jan 22, 202310 min read
"Shoveling Snow for Money" by Wayne McCray
Somewhere on the southside of Chicago, a clock-radio alarm blasted heavy metal at 4:30 a.m., soon followed by the sarcastic disc jockey...
Jan 8, 202317 min read
"The Tuner" by Yuan Changming
Facts can be more fascinating than fiction. Ming was acutely aware of that, but sometimes he wondered if he could tell one from the other...
Dec 11, 20224 min read
" 'Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome' by The Mountain Goats" by C. M. Green
I mostly just want to talk about this one Mountain Goats song. It came out pretty recently, but I’ve listened to it a hundred times...
Oct 20, 202215 min read
"Dear Bobby Sands" by Minglu Jiang
Content warnings for eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and body shaming DAY 18: 168 lbs Dear Bobby, I can’t believe it took me 18 days...
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