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Origami

By Jo Withers

It is impossible to fold the same piece of paper seven times. 1. You wrote inside the lines. Your textbooks…

Motherhood: A Hexaptych

By Candace Hartsuyker

1 She is cold, but they are frost and shiver. She digs them holes in the snow, sweeping ice crystals…

Authentic, Real, and Good

By Jemimah Wei

The truth is I got hired for my looks and promoted for my flexible standards of truth and that is…

Waving Tassels

By David Morgan O'Connor
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Plan to Free  The dog ate the turkey. Then killed all the village swans, piled the white corpses at the…

One Long Sting

By Emma Stough

From the time I learn how to bleed I keep a scab in the fleshy inner curve of my ear.…

Recommended Reading: Ghost Stories

By K.B. Carle

This past weekend, I did a deep dive into flash ghost stories. I leaped into the realm of flash specters…

the sea was there

By Alvin Park

I don’t know where Mom learned to drive. I don’t know where she learned to hold the wheel firm or…

Sowing

By Michelle Ross

A seed is an escape pod. A plant egg detaches from its mother from the start, Jody says as she…

Recommended Reading: Fables

By K.B. Carle

The Tortoise and the Hare. The Ants nod the Grasshopper. Both are examples of famous fables with the inclusion of…

Nanay Is Mother

By Veronica Montes

Behind the books on her shelves she finds the artifacts of their girlhood, all of them fuzzed with dust: pocket-sized…

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