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The Clay of It

By Anais Godard

When he walked into her studio, Elodie was sculpting her seventh ceramic penis of the week. This one had antlers.…

Cotton Mouth

By Janna Miller

I A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven. It waits for me just outside my front door, stretched out…

Boys in Boxes

By James Montgomery

The men are dying. We’re the boys who see them. In tabloids, on news bulletins. Faces pocked with purple lesions,…

Our Father

By Theresa Sylvester

There’s a photo of our father, donning a black suit, standing under a tree, with a mischievous smile and a…

Secret to Marriage

By Laura Sciortino
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They sit in silence on the farmhouse porch. It’s nothing, he hopes.  Earlier as his wife lay sleeping, toes twitching,…

Anthology 5 Shortlist

By Fractured Lit

We finally curated a shortlist of 41 stories, and they’ve been sent to judge, Tara Isabel Zambrano! It’s out of…

I Come From Aliens

By Janet Fancher
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There’s a picture from my wedding where my father looks at me with his face all screwed up with concern…

Neighborhood

By Linda Shapiro

Occasionally I walk here, when the weather permits.   Today I spot a man watering his garden, a riot of…

One Night, the Moon Starts Crying

By Francine Witte

Tears falling to earth in gulps of rain. No one knows why the moon is crying but everyone’s making a…

Child

By Amil Amin

I look down at my phone and it says Baba and I realize I haven’t seen him since that time…

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