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Party in the O.R.
Today is my double mastectomy. Today is also my birthday. As he numbs me, the anesthesiologist wears a pink pointed…
Be Prepared
A baby grand piano appeared after Billie moved in with her son. Fourth-rate elegance. Plywood garbage. The stroke took away…
THROUGH THE WINDOW
Demons cavort in the darkness of trees. Slender, knuckle-cracking things, whispering a wasp language. You stop your ears with moss,…
Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Winners and Shortlisted Writers
1st Place: It’s Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short…
Orange: Micro Series
Womb Cat wants to paint her house fluorescent orange. Call it Crisis. Call it citrus combating scurvy. Cat doesn’t go…
My Mother Calls Her a Head-Case Convict
But here I am anyway, in the CVS on Perkins and Sixteenth, allowing her to turn me criminal. Like this.…
Breaking Points: An interview with Chelsea Stickle
It sounds like you’re always writing! How did you decide what stories to put in this chapbook? Were there any…
AU: the night your husband proposed
You’re standing with toes far back from the edge, not prepared for a swim that night in Otsego when he…
Diamonds for My Daughters
Sometimes you think about her hands. Sometimes, before the sun hits the sky, you sit at the kitchen table, crimping…
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