Emmett
By Alexis Dinkins - “Did you hear? About the boy named Emmett?” Dolores asks Irene again, but Irene is feet ahead of her on the darkening...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
Sign Seeker
By Cecilia Kennedy - As narrow paths wind their way to the top of Lace Back Falls, Kelsie wobbles in front of me, growing tired. To my...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
Ghosts Go Home
By Miranda Caravalho - The ghosts cross over on the first morning of Spring. Like birds flying South for Winter, once the weather warms...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 12 min
The Mad Spells of Miss Wycherly
By Ed Sams - Miss Eve Wycherly was my Sunday School teacher and my sister’s piano teacher as well. She was small and thin and had a...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 5 min
Let the Fireflies Talk for Me
By Sarah Gundle - The first fireflies of the season are out. They’re a bug that never made sense to me, one that would rather call...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Terminal
By Claire Schultz - She can’t remember when she started forgetting. Or maybe she’s forgotten when she stopped remembering. It’s the same,...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 9 min
The Countess
By Sienna Baker - After the memorial, Thomas Cuthbert was alone. He walked down the street from the reception. It was still morning, but...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
And if
By Kate Simblet - And if you notice him pausing before he crosses the threshold, under the spiral of red, white and blue. Could you tell...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 10 min
Cabin Fever
By Margo McCall - By the time his turn to shuffle arrives, my husband James is already slurring his words and dropping his cards. Our...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 15 min
The Long Way
[Trigger Warning: References child abduction.] By Susan Sink - The swimming lesson came to an abrupt halt when someone pooped in the...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 8 min
The Walk Home
By Noreene Storrie - The darkness sneaked up on me. I’d tested dusk with my walk on Lilly’s steep C-curve driveway through woods with...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
After the Doctor's Visit
By Miranda Keskes - A child is spinning beside the slide in our community playground. Arms outstretched, eyes closed, head tilted up...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
Autumnal Grief
By Gloria R. Buckley - There is something enticing about the aromatic swirling scents of fall. Even in my grief, I still capture a dew...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Monarch Midwife
By Jim D'Aloisio - Their fragile infeasibility, so tiny coming out of the egg, pawns against the weather and living predators, their...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Aqua Blue Shoes
By Cristina L. White - I see the shoes first—aqua blue running shoes. Bright aqua blue. The shoes must be at least a size twelve, maybe...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Grow Where You’re Planted
By Jeremy Scott - Sunflowers grew out of Virginia’s head and no one in her family ever thought to tell her that this was strange. She...
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- Sep 15, 2021
- 1 min
Always, Since Friday
By Kenneth M. Kapp - Stan remembered how Cindy had looked at Hank. He swallowed. “Do you love him?” “Well,” Cindy’s jaw went up and down...
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- Sep 15, 2021
- 7 min
Maisy
By Debra Lee - My grandfather added a rear upstairs room to his house when he was in his forties. When he came home from work, he didn’t...
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- Sep 15, 2021
- 10 min
Mabel's Christmas
By Mark Hannon - Mabel’s eyes popped open, and she looked at the clock radio. 5:25. Should I get up now? she thought. “No,” her mother...
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- Sep 15, 2021
- 10 min
Loganberry Lane
By Michael Anthony - It began as a perfect summer day. The kind I had dreamt about during the final week of school. Though only the first...
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