Bro / Broken Shackles | By A R Salandy
Bro 'Low blow bro,' Says the adolescent Who hides just beyond The patchy beard- That fills him with a sense of strength In a strange...
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- Sep 7, 2020
Spider in Times Square | By Samuel Strathman
A shadow descends toward the arachnid like a derailed freightliner. The crawler shivers in waves, a parted forest. Heavy lies the anvil,...
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- Sep 3, 2020
Anxious Pancakes / Sat Where My Bones Are | By Josh Hallam
Anxious Pancakes Petra in marmite Cantona kick to the dimples toast in the dryer hands in the air balloon in a nostril sharing platter of...
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- Aug 31, 2020
The Right Recipe | By Alan Kissane
1. Preparation. Begin by slowly kneading two would-be lovers together in a glass bowl. Add a dash of beer or wine for flavouring - either...
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- Aug 27, 2020
Youth | By Gus Bambridge-Sutton
Back home in England, the landscape soothes like sleep-stuffed eyes. Bleary with cool, it’s youth in full bloom, the leaves and fields...
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- Aug 24, 2020
Discover Me | By Evan Hay
In a mall, pressing against those glass exteriors fronting numerous interchangeable shops; it could be an emporium dedicated to exclusive...
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- Aug 20, 2020
There is No Word for a Mother who has Lost a Child | Cathy Ulrich
The mother comes back to the empty house, hollowed and aching. There has been a deer inside since she was gone. She can still feel the...
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- Aug 17, 2020
Mathilde | By Robin Bissett
After you died, I kept almost everything. Your hairbrush, your favorite blanket, the Get Well Soon cards. The items coalesced, a colorful...
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- Aug 13, 2020
Lapsed/Last Requests | By Alana King
Lapsed the first time you got baptized you were seven all you knew for sure was that you didn't wanna go anywhere that gets hotter than...
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- Aug 10, 2020
Little World | Matt Mellor
That noise! Constant. Deafening. Vibrating everything around me, the whole world shakes with the sound. There’s simply no way of coping....
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- Aug 3, 2020
Junta | Angela Sherlock
A cat slips past as Rosa hesitates, peering round the corner to inspect the square. The whisper of the cat’s fur against her legs sets up...
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- Jul 27, 2020
Dreaming of Pie | Jenny Mitchell
There must be something wrong with her. All she cares about is food ever since her husband died the children moved so far away and she’s...
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- Jul 20, 2020
What Some Animals Will Do | David Henson
For weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Fortune and their young son, Bobby, had been looking forward to the circus coming to town. True, it wasn't one of...
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- Jul 13, 2020
Do You See Me Coming? | By F.C. Malby
Do you see me coming, when the days are short and the nights feverish, when the family gathers round, wondering whether to call the...
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- Jul 6, 2020
Grandma Lulu | By Zach Murphy
The savory smell of Grandma Lulu’s roasted pork and rosemary potatoes drifted into the living room as Wheel of Fortune played on the...
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- Jun 22, 2020
DECEIT | By Georgia Wetherall
He asked if I could tie knots in cherry stems using my tongue. I said I’d never tried. We borrowed two pounds from his mum and went to...
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- Jun 22, 2020
FULL ENGLISH | By Megan Rebecca
she grabbed the butter knife at breakfast spread jam thin across dry toast walked to school with mum hugged her before she left learned...
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