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    Necrobiome | By Liz Milne
    • 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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    My Primary Feeling, Annotated, During This Dark Age | By Jill Witty
    • 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...
    304
    Solemnity | By Nancy Dobson
    • Mar 11, 2021

    Solemnity | By Nancy Dobson

    This isn’t Notre Dame, the woman behind me hisses at her husband. No, I think defiantly, it’s better. But to honor the stillness in this...
    158
    The Neighbourhood Cats | By David Cook
    • 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...
    184
    Liaison | By Belinda Rimmer
    • Mar 6, 2021

    Liaison | By Belinda Rimmer

    We had agreed to meet by a river beside three boulders. I was to bring a picnic, and he a blanket. I had gone along the road signposted,...
    170
    A Catalogue of Rare and Curious Items Found on the Remote Island of Congoja | By Philippa Bowe
    • 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...
    163
    Ghost Stories | By Phebe Jewell
    • 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...
    98
    The Rabbit | By Sadie Maskery
    • Feb 22, 2021

    The Rabbit | By Sadie Maskery

    The Christmas that she left, Dad took me to the market. I need to see a man, he said, look after yourself. There was slush numbing my...
    94
    The Restoration of the Essential Spirit | By Colin James
    • 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...
    31
    Wakening | By Mark Mayes
    • 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...
    68
    An Elk: I Knew You Were | By Molly A. Green
    • Feb 15, 2021

    An Elk: I Knew You Were | By Molly A. Green

    I knew you were— an elk, lifting your chin above me, trapping my breath in a labyrinth of shadows, your antlers, an ego sprouting from...
    132
    Evening Song | By Yash Seyedbagheri
    • 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...
    44
    The Time I Poisoned my Mother | By Robert Fromberg
    • 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...
    114
    Cold Caller | By Simon Alderwick
    • Feb 8, 2021

    Cold Caller | By Simon Alderwick

    he phoned me, the scammer, and said he would never forget his mother's words— as she gives him everything he might ever own: you'll grow...
    59
    Opossumcore | By Amber Grennan
    • 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...
    80
    Ambiguity | By A.R. Salandy
    • Feb 4, 2021

    Ambiguity | By A.R. Salandy

    I travel to the east of the coldest west Each summer, (To where my father grew to know injustice) Where Auntie says Mama isn't black so...
    73
    Summers in Greece | By Tonia Markou
    • Feb 1, 2021

    Summers in Greece | By Tonia Markou

    Our grandparents’ house smells of musty old rugs and comforters, of goat cheese and Trahaná. The entire village groans under the heat and...
    105
     

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