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"Sharp Dressed Man" by Amelia Franz
It was a box, and who had three thousand bucks to spend on a box? Her daddy would have said, just wrap me in a bedsheet and drop me in a...
Feb 236 min read

"All the beautiful souls there are" by Mark Marchenko
‘Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence. ~ ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor...
Dec 15, 202412 min read

"Succulus" by Tim Boiteau
Emma had been moving in since we started dating six months ago, one little object at a time—a chartreuse toothbrush sprouting out of the...
Dec 15, 20248 min read

"An Die Musik, D.547" by Meredith England-Markun
I just learned more about this composer, Schubert, yesterday. I was trying a new song in my lesson, and my cello teacher filled me in...
Nov 17, 202415 min read

"Narcissus on the Deck" by Andrew Careaga
We were hitting our stride this Saturday morning, bodily rhythms in sync. Then came the first thud: a strange knocking from somewhere at...
Sep 24, 20244 min read

"I Can Do It In My Sleep" by Sam Szanto
‘Mummy, look, a ghost did a painting.’ Maddie looks. On the kitchen table is a painting of a bucolic country scene. There is a farmhouse...
Nov 12, 202317 min read

"Writer in Residence" by Travis Grant
Boiled down, she was a writer and I wasn’t. “This story, it’s terrible,” she said. “You’re writing fiction, for Christ’s sake.” That hurt...
Jul 23, 20231 min read

"Wrong Side of the Ice Wall" by Aaron Jacobs
Let me tell you about the time I was eight and made my big screen debut in Cannibal Family. I played Billy Barker, the youngest son of a...
May 13, 202316 min read

"Footprints" by Jim Towns
The man’s name was Ray; and he struggled, alone, through the drifting waves of coarse white sand. The desert was anonymous—the rocks and...
Apr 16, 20233 min read


"Negative Eighty" by Leslie Farnsworth
John Stanley had a tear-off monthly calendar, the kind auto-repair shops give away. He’d taken off the cardboard backing or it had torn...
Jan 22, 20235 min read


“Got Milk?” By Wayne McCray
My girlfriend, Jolene, took it and ran with it, but I figured I should let her know. Too bad an argument ensued and it ended abruptly....
Nov 27, 20229 min read

"Let Me Tell You What Happened to Todd" by Hugh Blanton
There was nowhere for me to go when I aged out of Bell County Baptist Children's Home, but I didn't care. They gave me a list of job...
Aug 7, 202212 min read
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