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A Language Is a Story
Father says he built the house back in Poland and hauled it with him across the Atlantic. The story goes:…
Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Longlist
These 39 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot…
Windows
We wait until the soft explosions above deaden to absolute silence—not the kind of silence that listens but the kind…
Tollbooth Madonna
In her old age, the Virgin Mary moves to your town in the North Carolina backwoods, buys a fixer-upper and…
The Day Never Happened
I did not combine melted butter and eggs in the medium mixing bowl or beat the mixture with the hand…
Blink and You Miss Her
You were 48 hours old when I called the midwife and told her that my uterus was falling out, hanging…
Orca Girl
wears a killer whale’s tooth like a toe tag and populates every available margin with sketches of the sea Oreos.…
Rubber Boots
Sister Francis’ long black coat whipped behind her in the wind, clipping the heads off dying dandelions and scattering white…
Bone on Bone
My son starts grinding his teeth in the Fall of 3rd grade. As he sleeps. The scraping, the pressure –…
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