"Mavis and Bruce" by Angela Townsend
Bruce and Mavis, Mavis and Bruce. They blow through my hair like the Holy Spirit. Our double helixes have never danced, but they are...
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Apr 294 min read
"Hangin' On" by Blake Kilgore
Tuesday night turned into Wednesday morning, and we were nowhere near home. Me and the boys were always on that pendulum, swinging from...
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Jan 1, 20234 min read
"Almost to the Point" by Jon Fain
After their early dinner their last night in Provincetown, they walked to the beach. Light reflected off the water, sprinkled the waves,...
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Dec 7, 202212 min read
"On the Ellen Show" by Kathryn Lord
This trip Myrna Sweeney was in first-class. Free drinks though it was still too early for a beer. More legroom so her knees wouldn’t be...
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Dec 4, 20222 min read
From the outpost: jim bourey reviews Have I Said Too Much by Carmen Delzell, from Paycock Press
Have I Said Too Much? by Carmen Delzell Short Stories Paycock Press 2021 These short stories, some only a few paragraphs long, range...
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Aug 7, 202213 min read
"Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome" by Jennifer Makowsky
I still can’t really say how or when Miriam made the move from being our English au pair to being my twin brother's girlfriend. It was...
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Aug 7, 20225 min read
"Henry Fuckbutter" by Brad Petit
Henry Fuckbutter was a real man, as real as any before or since. And I’m not just making this up, mind you—you can Google it yourself. I...
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Aug 7, 202214 min read
"The Lost Coast" by Claire Dodd
The painter’s wife was instantly recognisable: she was hurrying barefoot along the cracked stone path that linked the lodge’s drained...
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Jul 1, 20228 min read
"Here on Business" by Mick Leigh
He checked into the hotel early in the afternoon and paid with cash. The name he used was Richard Sanderson. The identification he...
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Jul 1, 202222 min read
"Mockingbirds" by Patrick Strickland
It’s around five-thirty when I clock out. Mike is protesting outside the clinic again. He’s got this hand-written placard that says...
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May 9, 202210 min read
"A Different Place" by Laura White Gray
“When did this happen?” Paula says as she scrolls through her son’s photographs on the laptop. “What?” he asks. Jarred by his question,...
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May 9, 202215 min read
"Coqen" by Philip Jason
We are here to hunt the beasts the natives call Coqeli. We have traveled six thousand miles by plane, car, boat and helicopter. For two...
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May 9, 202215 min read
"Elias Wolf" by Virginia Watts
Elias Wolf is a perfect name for a vampire, and the Elias Wolf who lived in my hometown of Putnum, West Virginia, certainly looked the...
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May 9, 202211 min read
"Haley Lovell" by Tommy Vollman
A few weeks after Haley Lovell’s third birthday, her dad buckled her into her car seat outside the old Milford post office, kissed her...
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May 9, 20224 min read
"Harbor Seals" by Mary Crawford
They kept the fucking a secret, as their workplace rules compelled: more difficult than it seemed since between them vibrated a palpable...
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May 9, 20229 min read
"Measured in Men" by Aarron Sholar
The upright speakers at the front of the reception hall invite the couples up to slow dance. I sit beside AJ at our table, next to his...
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May 9, 20224 min read
"We Sit in Restaurants" by Wendy BooydeGraaff
We push open the doors that say Masks required, No mask? No service, Mask up—it’s the law. Who looks at signs on doors. Who listens. We...
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Apr 1, 20225 min read
"The John Glenn Story" by Thomas Thonson
Her name was Albert II. But that wasn’t her real name; that’s what the NASA engineers called her, those doughy-faced men with pocket...
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Feb 28, 202215 min read
"One Hit Wonder" by Dan A. Cardoza
Way back in Tommy Tutone's childhood Chicago, the word on the street is that Tommy was conceived under a dead hickory tree, on top of a...
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Feb 22, 20223 min read
"Unfamiliar Gifts" by Lex Shramko
“I—am—so—sorry,” she says to me. Each word is a pause, a breath, a gift. Gifts that I no longer expected, but still wanted. I want us to...
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