‘Say Nothing’ by Phyllis Ritter
We met in the ladies room of her advertising firm. She was applying mascara in the mirror. I was filling the paper towel dispenser. She...
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- Jun 6
‘The Time My Uncle Whipped a Knife at Someone’ by Zeke Jarvis
I have this uncle who absolutely swore that one of his coworkers was secretly a superhero. To be fair, his coworker did look a little...
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- May 30
‘One Bullet’ by Daniel Farkas
A kilometer away, the sniper found perfect rooftop camouflage. The Geheime Staatspolizei, the responsible body, ignored the area beyond...
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- May 23
‘The Long Lie In’ by Matthew Wright
As I lay in the dark with you, my love, at my side, our old digi-clock struggles to remember that the new day starts in zeros. Funny old...
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- May 2
‘Quiet’ by Donna Ghassemi
It had been quiet for a while. Things have been quiet before. There was a time in December when the air had become heavy with the...
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- May 3, 2021
My Transformation into a Plastic Bill Murray | By William Musgrove
Six months ago, Bill Murray, the last of the real celebrities, perished in a hospital bed. The doctor overseeing this titan of...
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- Mar 15, 2021
Necrobiome | By Liz Milne
She was a vibrant creature, full of life and love and lust. Hair all the colours she could find, body pierced to enhance sensation,...
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- Mar 13, 2021
My Primary Feeling, Annotated, During This Dark Age | By Jill Witty
I 1 miss 2 holding 3 your 4 hand 5. 1 Not merely the self, the first-person subject pronoun, but also the collective I, the individual...
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- Mar 8, 2021
The Neighbourhood Cats | By David Cook
Stan loved it when the neighbourhood cats visited his garden. Tabbies, tortoiseshells, ginger toms – they were all welcome as far as he...
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- Mar 4, 2021
Realtor of the Year | By Jeff Harvey
Turned down again by another potential seller, Derek stopped at Panna’s to have lunch. While enjoying the tofu stir-fry, he heard a...
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- Feb 27, 2021
A Catalogue of Rare and Curious Items Found on the Remote Island of Congoja | By Philippa Bowe
1. One large spyglass. Brass and high-quality leather. Staining and identically formed indentations along the barrel suggest long use at...
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- Feb 25, 2021
Ghost Stories | By Phebe Jewell
# None of the neighbors know the boy who was killed in the park. They say his name because it was in the papers. Walking their dogs...
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- Feb 20, 2021
The Restoration of the Essential Spirit | By Colin James
The elderly had scattered and then returned with hot drinks, horderves ending in I. Room was made, preemptively. The lecturer squeezed...
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- Feb 18, 2021
Wakening | By Mark Mayes
He’d been up all night, like usual. And for perhaps the final time he knew what his work was. Or call it play or focus or love. He knew...
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- Feb 13, 2021
Evening Song | By Yash Seyedbagheri
At dusk, I leave dark rooms and packaging my sister’s DVDs and clothes. I go out onto the deck, replete with Spotify playlist and glass...
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- Feb 11, 2021
The Time I Poisoned my Mother | By Robert Fromberg
I get a chemistry set. I am a little overwhelmed by the powders and equipment and instructions. I find a simple experiment that involves...
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- Feb 6, 2021
Opossumcore | By Amber Grennan
Robbie stood at his bedroom window brazenly, his plush opossum toy resting tenderly between his hands. The older woman emerged from the...
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- Dec 28, 2020
The Things we Learnt about Sam after his Passing | By Megha Nayar
That he owned a closet full of sweaters he had knit himself. That the sweaters were absolutely gorgeous. That nobody from his circle –...
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- Dec 24, 2020
The Climb | By Gaia Donati
I wouldn’t put my finger there if I were you. There, that’s a better grip. I can see you are not ready to face death. La muerte,...
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- Nov 30, 2020
I Hope My Plants Aren't Dead | By Joe Ray W.
Get a house plant, that's what they said. It'll be good for you, that's what the internet said. Maybe I will, that's what I said.
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