"Our Sketchy Sister Sam" by Sherry Cassells
My twin brother Clem had a club foot but could climb like you wouldn’t believe. He’d swoop up trees like we were on the moon and if a...
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Jul 24, 20224 min
"So the wind won’t blow it all away" by rob mclennan
Only man, the pinnacle of creation, has the capacity to alter his world by wielding a sentence. Etgar Keret, trans. Jessica Cohen, “The...
Jul 10, 20225 min
"He Knows Me Now" by Travis Cravey
When Lonny Morton walked into a bar, folks noticed. He was big and handsome. He was six foot five, two hundred and seventy pounds. He had...
Jul 10, 20223 min
"The Visitor" by Lorraine Murphy
“Loveen, sit down. We need to talk.” The old woman sits uninvited at your kitchen table in a torn grey pinafore and filthy shirt, her...
Jul 10, 20226 min
"Easy" by Tiffany M. Storrs
Charlie only liked it when it was easy. Lukewarm bourbon whiskey out of a water bottle in the backseat of a Chevy easy. Pink panties...
Jul 10, 20224 min
"Classroom Embers" by Gavin Turner
Mr. Sharples surveyed the wreck of his once immaculate science classroom. He rubbed his blackened fingers against each other, but this...
Jul 10, 20226 min
"Joules" by Kellie Scott-Reed
I worked at the deli counter at ‘The Dill’, a small gas station- slash-store in the middle of nowhere. We were a desperation spot for...
Jul 10, 20228 min
"Tupperware Can Do Almost Anything" by Julia Halprin Jackson
“Believe it or not,” I say, hoisting the ice chest over my head, “I cannot control the river.” “Yeah, whatever,” Samantha says. “Just get...
Jun 27, 202213 min
"White Knight" by Melissa Flores Anderson
Gwen picked up the levee trail behind the high school after the early morning rain stopped. She hadn’t put in contacts in the rush to...
Jun 27, 20224 min
"A Question of Life" by DJ Tyrer
“This is most irregular. Most irregular, indeed.” The judge pushed his tiny glasses up his nose and looked at the petitioning lawyer....
Jun 27, 20227 min
"Smokey and that Damn Mouth of His" by Wayne McCray
The screen door burst open. Erlene, a black pony-tailed girl, ran through the house until she reached the kitchen. "Nana, come see!...
May 15, 20226 min
"Banged-Up Grill" by Sy Holmes
Assistant Professor of Botany Dr. Sylvia Anderson woke me up at 2 AM and told me she had to get going. I lit a cigarette on my front step...
Apr 17, 20228 min
"The Mutt" by James Jenkins
Ronnie hung over a sea of green. The pain in his lower back non-existent. A combination of deep concentration and self-medication. The...
Mar 20, 202215 min
"The Center of Gravity" by Steve Passey
CW: suicide After the fire, even as the rain comes, a man will most miss what he never had. A service had cleaned his condominium...
Feb 20, 202221 min
"Rich Girls" by Melissa Flores Anderson
I noticed Eve first at the Bad Ass Café in Dublin in Temple Bar. She sat across from me and I thought she looked a lot like my favorite...
Feb 6, 20223 min
"The Dead Parts" by Margo Griffin
Discovering that most supermarket, free-range turkeys primarily congregate in overcrowded, dirty sheds, Evie bought herself a free-range...
Feb 6, 20224 min
"Lady and Child" by Lorraine Murphy
My neck aches from gazing at the clear glass ceiling in the Grand Gallery but I don’t know what else to do. I’ve studied every detail of...
Feb 6, 202216 min
"A Field of Snow" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
Andrew Martin looked out at the post-New Year’s snow and thought of all the New Year’s he had passed happily: first with family, then...
Jan 2, 20227 min
"Morning Rounds" by Edward Belfar
No, you didn’t wake me. Nobody here got any sleep last night. There’s a woman down the hall who spent most of the night screaming. She...
Dec 19, 20213 min
"My Famous Bed Story" by Robert Fromberg
Back when I used to tell my famous bed story, I told it slowly. In my mind, its events needed to undulate like a flag filmed in slow...
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