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May 15, 20226 min read
"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 read
"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 read
"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 read
"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 read
"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 read
"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 read
"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 read
"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 read
"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...
Oct 31, 20218 min read
"A Song for the Apocalypse" by Kellie Scott-Reed
Somehow, I knew the end would come slowly. The luxury and mercy of a catastrophic event that obliterated billions of years of evolution...
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