What Were You Thinking?
By William S. Hubbartt - “So what did you do this time?” I smiled, with that innocent subtle shrug, my mind evaluating the alternatives,...
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- Aug 15, 2021
- 9 min
The Bike
By Marilyn Fahey - The bike lay abandoned alongside the railroad tracks, way out in Rattlesnake City, a field no one dared venture out...
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- Jul 15, 2021
- 8 min
Good Taste
By Lindsay Crudele - Green peas. Salted peanuts. Cherries, warm in my backpack, plucked from the mesh, pits popped through the mouth of...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 9 min
The Transmutable Divide
By M. Sweeney - They arrived all at once, tipsy with tales of dangerous Uber drivers and drug store deviants in the mini mart next door. ...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 4 min
Arbitration
By Nathalie Lawrence - “This isn’t something we can be expected to endure.” Mrs. Ashley Fitzgerald draws out endure so long it doesn’t...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
The Tail of a Gypsy Moth
By Sarp Sozdinler - States receive news from each other from one disaster to another, his warden used to say (“like family members”)....
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 11 min
Pocket Watch
By Chip Jett - She came into possession of the pocket watch by way of a fortune-telling chicken on the boardwalk. It was the summer of...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 4 min
An Old Woman, a Rubber Band, and a Nuclear Bomb
By Gene Glotzer - As they shuffled slowly into the cafeteria/common room, she was already sitting, hunched over, at her usual table in...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 2 min
Custodial Conflict
By Rueda Wright - The guy at the gate is grinning as I approach. I hate that bastard. He takes a disturbing delight in delivering bad...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 2 min
Mister Bluster
By Dan Nielsen - Mister Bluster cozies into his bright red La-Z-Boy. He presses the illuminated blue side button, legs slowly rising...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 10 min
Refugee
By Julia Abelsohn - No matter how many times I poured over the details of our fifteen-year marriage I couldn’t detect the first signs of...
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- May 15, 2021
- 7 min
Precipitate Wisdom
By Kathrina E. Jones - All “Dit/Dah” Morse Code in this story is a shorthand system of "Q Codes" used by HAM operators to save time with...
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- May 15, 2021
- 11 min
Knuckle Dragger
By Jeremy Broyles - Jay, armored but with a laundry basket, trapped with his wife in their downstairs bedroom, leaned his bare shoulder...
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- May 15, 2021
- 3 min
Geographical Affections
By Bakhtiar Ahmed - "Why are you crying?" "I am not" My father and brother turn to me. My eyes tear up by themselves. "You are. You're...
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- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
Ocampo
By Vicki Whicker - All growth is a leap in the dark. Henry Miller Pacific Palisades, CA. The Huntington. Spring, 1995. On a cliff wedged...
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- May 15, 2021
- 9 min
Lost in Christ
By Cindy Marabito - They’d come from all around. Not the whole world, but from the surrounding Texas towns. Paris. Whitehouse. Palestine....
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- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
Peek
By Gale Acuff - In Sunday School today Miss Hooker said that when it's time for me to die it's God's will and there's no getting around...
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- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
Still
By Yash Seyedbagheri - Empty space envelops. Even blasting Netflix, stillness rises. Coldness creeps upon me. Some nights, I go for walks....
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- May 15, 2021
- 12 min
I Cain't Say No
By William Wodhams - “I don’t know if I want to do this,” she said. “Look at that guy. By the stop lights.” Alan pointed at a heavy man...
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- May 7, 2021
- 10 min
Two Lives
By Amanda Gibson - Each time their car passed the farmhouse with its jumble of outbuildings, Sara saw domestic bliss. Despite the...
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