[Fiction] Alive, Alive-O
By Thomas Canfield The shells were fashioned from silver. They were visible to a depth of perhaps twenty meters. Beyond that, it...
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- Aug 20
- 9 min
[Fiction] High Tide Chickens
By Gary Baney Sean pounded the three-foot metal stakes into the sand. The triple flute design was meant to stay in place under...
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- Aug 7
- 10 min
[Fiction] Except from Eulogy for a Waterman by Patrick Moser
Intro This excerpt is based on my biography of George Freeth which came out with the University of Illinois Press in 2022: Surf and...
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- Jul 23
- 11 min
[Fiction] Beach Influence
By Liz Lydic Coming from Michigan, Janis thought she knew the beach. On the evening before her flight, while chatting on the phone, she...
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- Jul 1
- 23 min
[Fiction] Leftover Effervescence
by Brenna Humphreys But, oh, the afterlife. How it teases and haunts, how it bleeds into this life. —Betsy Sholl, “Concerning the Soul”...
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- Jul 1
- 13 min
[Fiction] P.E.
by Michael Scott Moore 1991 I can tell you how come we don’t ride to school with Schuyler and them in the morning anymore, but you have...
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- Jul 1
- 13 min
[Fiction] Host
by Terence Young “Nobody’s home, Henry.” “You are.” “You want to see my parents, Henry, and they aren’t here right now. They’ve gone...
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- Jul 1
- 26 min
[Fiction] Dry Drowning
by Amanda Nowlin Sammie, a real estate friend of my parents, is driving us around in her old white Cadillac big enough for a garden...
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- Jul 1
- 7 min
[Fiction] Surfer’s End
by Kevin B Near the rock where tourists posed for photos, there was a spot where no one was meant to sit. Constance scaled the rock under...
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- Jul 1
- 10 min
[Fiction] The La Calma
[Fiction] The La Calma by Andrew Eastwick For much of my eleventh year Mother and I lived in La Calma Inn. We never called it “The La...
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- Jul 1
- 17 min
[Fiction] Night Surfer
by M. Golda Turner Surfers peel off wetsuits by their parked cars on a cliffside road. I carry my board toward them, knowing that these...
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- Jul 1
- 8 min
[Fiction] Soundtrack
by Shannon Presby Jenna used to say she could hear the soundtrack of anyone’s life. I didn’t really believe her. She liked to make things...
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- May 28
- 5 min
[Fiction] Dolphin Lovers
by Joanna Szeto Tiffany had thousands of dolphins in her room. She knows, she’s counted them. She had wall to wall posters of dolphins...
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- Apr 30
- 8 min
[Fiction] The Abandoned Beach
By Kat Kovalevska Dana sat down on the curb outside the convenience store. She took out a cigarette and stared at it. She stopped smoking...
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- Apr 2
- 10 min
[Fiction] Only in her Dreams
By Susan Delgado The distance between the two of them used to be 2,253 miles. Now, the distance is even greater. They had communicated...
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- Mar 5
- 15 min
[Fiction] We Will Take It Slow Now
By Hunter Prichard Tracy bought them McDonald’s for a treat. Dutch had gotten a perfect score on his minute-math quiz and Beth was acting...
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- Feb 6
- 2 min
[Fiction] Arrives in Santa Fe
By Viviane Vives She runs after the ugly truck he made beautiful, talks to trees, bathes in the rivers on the way. Just like he does....
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- Dec 15, 2023
- 11 min
[Fiction] Rowboat
by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett The sky was black as Nina rowed past the Fun Zone. Fairy lights stretched over restaurant patios, and the...
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- Dec 15, 2023
- 13 min
[Fiction] Night Swim
by Matt Ellis Mark emptied his pockets onto the bed before arranging his belongings into an orderly stack on the pillow: cell phone,...
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- Dec 15, 2023
- 2 min
[Fiction] More than a Kerosene Lamp
by Christine Arroyo If you’d been dating this guy for six months, falling in love over shared environmental projects—his the ocean, yours...
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