"What's in a Name?" Flash Fiction
I got another postcard from Howard today, said he was in Harrisburg, staying at the Howard Johnson’s there. It was part of his cross...
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Winter/Spring Vol 19.1
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Brett Riley
Oct 31, 201717 min read
Hyacinth
Knuckles Nicky Nunez had won the Ultimate Fighting Championship Middleweight World Title at Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena only three hours...
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David Pratt
Oct 31, 201716 min read
Agapika
“How well you speak my language!” Antigone said. Mike flushed slightly at the exaggeration. They sat at right angles to one another at...
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Albert Wachtel
Oct 31, 201718 min read
The Basement
“I think it’s a spirit, Dellie.” Mr. Chalker flashed that wide smile of his, meaning, “Not really, but we’ll talk. There’s something...
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Gene Turchin
Sep 1, 20179 min read
Crazy Henry
The inside of Henry's head was like a cavernous, hollow bell. A noisy place where echoes and voices mixed and muddled together in an...
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Steven Leech
Sep 1, 201712 min read
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GAS JUNKIES "I first met William Z. Foster," say Che Pancho, “on the wharf. I was just getting off the Rachel, an old broke down...
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Christopher Weston
Sep 1, 201741 min read
Ordovicia
They could not be beaten; they prepared for violence with unfathomable weapons that could kill one or twenty, or set fire to a roof, or...
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Franetta McMillian
Aug 17, 201715 min read
"The Girl Who Spoke in Pictures"
Dr. Arnette Williams Liberty City Alicia Nightgrove, the girl who spoke in pictures, had two fathers: David Grove and Lillian Dean. David...
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Franetta McMillian
Aug 17, 201712 min read
"Amira's Head"
Mom started talking to Amira about two and a half months before she died. She had many invisible companions during her illness—a brain...
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Christopher Heffernan
Jul 1, 201714 min read
"Where We Were Headed"
Honestly, it was kind of strange the way he came downstairs and stood next to the couch, watching the T.V. with me, with his hands on his...
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Mary Pauer
Jul 1, 20173 min read
"Take Me Out to the Old Ball Game"
The doobie in the corner of Wilson’s mouth hangs near his chin, glows red with his final toke. He buttons green fatigue pants. “Guy could...
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Peter Barlow
Jul 1, 201719 min read
"Setting Loose the Marmosets"
The TV came on in the middle of a news report. “—arrested today in front of the Detroit Zoo after protesters blocked traffic at Woodward...
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Joseph Battaglia
Jul 1, 201719 min read
"Curiosities of the Trade", fiction
Driving home to Delaware last week, I was passing through my hometown when I got caught in a downpour, so I parked in the old...
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