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Nov 4, 20222 min read
Jack and Jill’s Final Adventure, by Epiphany Ferrell
They hadn’t told anyone about Jack’s cancer. Not officially. Jill had known. Of course. She was there when he got the call, there to see...
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Oct 28, 20222 min read
The Girl Who Was Afraid to Die, by Gabrielle Skerpan
There once was a girl who was afraid to die. The fear knotted her stomach and caused her to shake. Her tears ran dry, and she could do...
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Oct 14, 20222 min read
Hula, by Heidi Turner
There’s nothing inside my coconut bra but the tourists don’t need to know that. They watch my hips, and the men grab their wives’ hands...
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Sep 24, 20223 min read
Vacation, by Miranda Williams
My husband slips under the waves and never comes back up. I watch the tide claim his balding head from my beach towel. The aquamarine...
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Sep 14, 20223 min read
Radio II, by Alexander Eikenberg
From the passenger’s seat you reach over and turn on the radio. With the windows down at sixty-five the sound is stifled out of hearing...
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Sep 2, 20223 min read
The Computer's Lament, by Sheldon Kozushko and Nicholas Caleb Kozushko
Cycle 4000 entry 341 My master has not been tending to me as of late. I miss the touch of his fingers. The quick strokes he makes along...
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Aug 16, 20221 min read
Absolute Divisions, by William Doreski
A woodpecker razzing a tree rousts me from a dream set in a ruined clubhouse perched at the extremity of Brooklyn. Broken glass and...
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Aug 1, 20221 min read
Natalie at the Beach, by Florence Murry
Sunbathers soak in blasted brilliance. Umbrellas on the shore a kaleidoscope canopy. We unpack close to the break feel spray on our...
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Jul 24, 20222 min read
Someone's Someone, by Ashley Sgro
Jacket: on. Boots: laced and tight. Sweatshirt and sweatpants: saggy for loose maneuvering. I’m on the midnight prowl. I’ll start on...
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Jul 20, 20222 min read
Sunflower, by Lauren Schaumburg
Freckles dappling skin, how long can you lie in the sunshine before the burn comes to lay waste to your flesh? How long can you stand to...
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Jul 15, 20223 min read
The Grounding, by Keith ‘Doc’ Raymond
Anchor chains break, and ships drift to shore. Wrecks collect with the tide, rust, and recede. And every hundred years she comes to...
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Jul 13, 20221 min read
Caspian Sea, by Leila Farjami
Once, she held me in her rippling arms, soft Mother, breathing her buoyant, murmuring life into my little body. Her shores stretched like...
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Jul 6, 20221 min read
cities, by Ritoshree Chatterjee
i have gathered bits of skin and memory and have packed myself in Tupperware to a city whose name only birds have heard at my hometown in...
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Jun 29, 20229 min read
Dream Deferred, by Cristian Ramirez
When I was younger, I think, I wanted to be an astronaut. Lying on the roof of my not-so-mobile mobile home, which sat on concrete slab...
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Jun 22, 20229 min read
Miranda’s Child, by Louise Wilford
“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to...
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Jun 19, 20227 min read
We Talk about the Wind, by Alexis David
The cat tails loft upward, moving in the breeze. This a place of light, where we are made of light, where we float on water.
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Jun 13, 20221 min read
tsuki ga kirei desu ne, by Yashika Doshi
The sun has let go for the moon to begin surfacing,
as the multitude of colours erupt in the sky,
you curl your fingers and lace them in min
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Jun 6, 20222 min read
Hagler and Hearns, 1985
What’s the sweet science
if not a series of experiments
where irresistible force meets
an immovable object?
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Feb 14, 20225 min read
Moonshadow, by Barbara Long
Melba held the moon in her hand, caressing it gently, opening and closing her palm around the silvery sheen. It often slipped in through...
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Feb 9, 20221 min read
If I Could, by Kimberly Barbour
If she could write you a letter, she would say that she tried. She’d apologize for lying, but it’s all she knew. Lies, and want, and him....
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