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"The Cake Eater" by Jason Thornberry
The heavy door opens, and I check in. Someone pats me down. When they finish, I put my keys, my wallet, and my Chapstick back in my...
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Feb 14, 20226 min read
"Belongings" by Adam Knight
I am not ready, but you drag me into the light anyway. You are gentle, and for this I am grateful. You treat me with respect. You fold my...
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Feb 14, 202214 min read
"Courtship" by Terry Mergenthal
The Walther P22 in Carl Peltier’s glove compartment isn’t the same gun his father used. That was the P38, heavier by a pound and forever...
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Feb 7, 202219 min read
"The Posthumous Father" by Robert Pope
When I originally wrote this story and sent it to a magazine I thought might be interested, I got it back with the note they rejected it...
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Feb 2, 20228 min read
"Tantan Chacha’s Brand New Dragon Balls" by Ankit Raj
Tantan chacha swore on Brahma that the doctor had installed Chinese nuts for his old ones. The amicable neighborhood blacksmith could be...
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Jan 27, 202211 min read
"Emotional Rescue" by Stephanie Tamagi
Eddie says things must change between us, that they can’t be as before. “Because I’m not here anymore, not really.” He has tried to...
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Jan 27, 202213 min read
"Trajectory" by Thomas Mixon
It’s April and it’s not yet sunrise and there’s a sudden screaming on the pond that makes me fall right off the bed (I don’t know why,...
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Jan 27, 20224 min read
"The Ginzel" by Briley Jones
They had spent a week digging the shaft, building a derrick of four beams, each crossing seventy-feet high, snarled with ties and braces...
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Oct 31, 20217 min read
"Three Lunch Rooms" by V. Zenari
Refectory, Priory of St. Pancras Lewes We cross the parquet floor to the two long rows of tables The hems of our robes hush the floor We...
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Oct 31, 20216 min read
"Recalling Ben Minor" by Jim Meirose
Roaring applause. Roaring applause. Roaring applause. Roaring applause. Roaring applause. Roaring As applause. Roaring As we applause....
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Oct 31, 202114 min read
"Dying to Know" by J.D. Kotzman
People die every day. That’s what I kept telling myself anyway—anything to explain why we put Lisa in the ground this morning, why a...
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Sep 30, 202116 min read
"The Spiritual Property of Tully Lieberman" by Walker Zupp
I Today I intend to document how the middle-aged, physically fit and balding Tully Lieberman lived in a house on the very edge of the...
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Sep 30, 202111 min read
"West Side Highway" by Leah Erickson
When she emerged from the elevator, he was surprised to see that she was alone. Usually, she was with her husband, on the way to a book...
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Sep 30, 202111 min read
"Someone in the Know" by Gretchen Hays
I’ve got the number on Lou. I can tell you his routine, his habits, how and when he laughs and who he spends his time with (no one) and...
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Jul 1, 20218 min read
"The Schubert Quartet" by Robin Ray
“Ugh.” I don’t know what woke me up just now, but my head feels like there’s an overweight clown with leaden boots performing cartwheels...
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Jul 1, 202114 min read
"San Armando" by A.J. Ortega
I was lucky to survive sixth grade. It was the same year the Plaza de Toros Monumental was demolished just across the border. It was a...
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May 2, 202111 min read
"Grizzly Country" by Nancy Bourne
Three roads lead out of Nome, Alaska. We’ve tried all three, dead-ending in Eskimo villages and endless miles of tundra. So what now? ...
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May 2, 20214 min read
"Something Special from the Minimart" by Rita Plush
I envied her. I wanted to be her. I wanted her house, her clothes and her car. I had a house, clothes and a car but hers were better....
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May 2, 20216 min read
"Honeycomb" by Frances Susanna Nevill
Image titled "Honeycomb" by Britt Freda. Courtesy of Britt Freda. He was there to clean the ashes. His clingy orange bodysuit was...
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Apr 1, 20215 min read
"After Desire" by Gerald Quinn
Heads bowed low before a stainless steel grotto, a dozen silent men await the resumption of time as measured against more than cigarettes...
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