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“Undying Wind”: An Interview with Myna Chang
Myna Chang’s new flash collection, The Potential of Radio and Rain (out now from CutBank Books), is a revelation on…
Billy Joel’s 1989 Hit Song and The Possibility of Beauty
“The letter opener?” I said to my husband in the middle of the night. “I panicked,” he said, rolling the…
Friend Suggestion
Why not the boy from high school with the red hair and freckled skin? Classmates said he liked you, said…
I Wanted This to Feel Personal: An Interview with Tucker Leighty-Phillips
Avee Chaudhuri: Children at play seems to be of recurring interest in the collection. There are all these powerful and…
The Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 3 Winners
Judge, Peter Orner, chose these 20 stories for inclusion in the next anthology!
Grilled Cheese
Step 1: Butter both sides of two pieces of bread. Put mayonnaise on the outside of both. The crows outside…
THE BABY BORN IN 1944
-after the paintings, The Baby (1944) and Artist’s Daughter by the Sea (1943) by Milton Avery Why I chose to…
A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth Sorrow to the daughter she grew in the garden
Dear Ginny, It’s the last night of September. This week, your leaves started to change—darkest green to richest red. Your growth…
Once, Three Brothers Guided Two Moons Across the Sky
But now there are only two brothers and one moon. At the end of my seven-day shift, I hang the…
Tennis Elbow
For thirty-one of their thirty-two years together, Lydia and Meredith shared an evolving dumb joke which started one day in…
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