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Every Thought and Prayer

By Stephen Haines

Every thought and prayer was answered. Everything reversed. The news crews packed their vans with cameras and microphones, and the…

The Flies

By Rachele Salvini

As she kills the flies, Gloria asks for mercy, then sprays an insecticide that sticks to the walls for weeks.…

Splinter

By Didi Wood

We’re not allowed to leave the yard, even when the other kids are playing in the wooded triangle everyone calls…

The Story You’ll Never Tell

By Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

That story you’ll never tell is the house on the street in every Seventies horror movie you devoured in the…

Vermilion Cliffs

By Allison Field Bell

Colors baked into a layer cake of rock. A hot and dry May in Arizona. We cannot drink enough water.…

People Present on Carnaby Street on a Saturday Afternoon in Early May

By Matt Kendrick

Four murderers, one of them with horn-rimmed glasses. A steady flow of pushchair mothers who divert to left or right…

For a Short Time Only

By Holly Burns

The summer I babysat the Brady twins, their parents were on the brink of divorce. My parents were on the…

Snagging Blanket

By Abigail F. Taylor

Sundance Lee draped his old snagging blanket around his shoulders. It hadn’t snagged anyone for many years. His legs were…

Fullness

By Payne Ratner

First it was the little porcelain dogs with green glass eyes. Each one in various uniforms. A policeman bulldog, a…

Four

By E.R. Ramzipoor

And because the house was filled with comfortable things, you wondered. As your wife slept under the perfect thread count,…

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