[Fiction] Modern Corrections
by Rodney E. Schmidt It was midnight. Gloria stood on the balcony ledge, yelling at the culprit who hid in the darkness. She begged him...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 10 min
[Fiction] The Roses & the Weeds
By Elinora Westfall Ollie talks. Not that Bridget listens. She’s too absorbed in the mundane task of fastening her bra, a simple action...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 8 min
[Fiction] Floodplain and High-Hazard Zone Regulations
By Isabel Yacura They found the body in the creek when the tide went out. They called it a creek on the island, anyway—it was more like a...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 16 min
[Fiction] Tastes of Freedom
By Andréa Ferrell Gannon Claire didn’t want Milo tagging along; he was too old, too quiet, his face too sun damaged, his lips too fleshy....
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 12 min
[Fiction] Jellyfish Summer
by Veronica Good You open the first day of summer like a book. The first contact with the crashing waves outside your beach house makes...
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- Nov 29, 2022
- 5 min
[Fiction] Situation on National Highway 52
By Ziaul Moid Khan The tires of my polar white Renault Duster screeched before coming to an abrupt halt on National Highway 52. I had...
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- Oct 18, 2022
- 4 min
[Fiction] The Age of Knowing
by Lukas Tallent The first time they did it as husband and wife was at night in the shower of her cousin’s condo in Panama City Beach....
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- Aug 30, 2022
- 12 min
[Fiction] Saving Face
By Kathryn E. McGee I don’t recognize him at first, not until he says my name. “Peach?” My boyfriend, Kyle, is seated and waiting in the...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 19 min
[Fiction] Broken Cowboys
by Emmet Browne We drive through West Texas, where the sky is almost red and where the sun sets faster than a bull with its ass ablaze....
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 19 min
[Fiction] Curio Bay
by John Yunker I held up my arm in front of a woman coming toward me like an early morning mall walker, in Nikes, purple leggings, a pink...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 17 min
[Fiction] Inlander
by Oliver Brennan Donna sits as upright as she can, helped by the hospital bed’s automatic lift. She stares at the television above the...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 6 min
[Fiction] Keziah and the Whale
by Krista Beucler “Daddy is taking us to Hawaii,” Mom tells Keziah. She uses the bright voice she saves for talking to children, but...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 17 min
[Fiction] Rock Bottom
by Laurie Rockenbeck Bob’s daydreams alternated between finding Suzi dead in their bed, choked on her own vomit, and coming home to her...
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- Jun 14, 2022
- 9 min
[Fiction] How to Make Light Come
by Juniper Soledad is making out with my dead body on a bed of sand. Paper seagulls dangle from the ceiling. A video camera is set-up on...
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- May 3, 2022
- 7 min
[Fiction] Laguna
by Matthew Johnson Breath in. Breath out. The blue mask covering Cassie’s mouth and nose rose and swelled like foam, trapping in her...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
[Fiction] Seafoam
by Megan Jauregui Eccles When I sold my hair to save my sister, I thought she’d understand. A mermaid’s magic is in her hair. It was all...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 11 min
[Fiction] U-Haul
by Ioannis Argiris “Damn. Jimmy’s got to keep this shit on the low,” Jules says. The U-Haul truck’s suspension seems lower than what he...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 7 min
[Fiction] Pool #31
By Peter Steinfeld We’d gotten everything: cake, flowers, presents, balloons… The cards somehow had slipped my mind. I searched before...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 17 min
[Fiction] All That Glitters
by Wendy Maxon Sara used to love the pastel seascape she’d painted on her curbside mailbox, but today its red plastic flag beckoned like...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 15 min
[Fiction] Stool Pigeon
By Brian Asman So the other weird thing about Bruno Harbeck’s bar was he had this pigeon. It sat on a stool next to a vintage...
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