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5 Greek Refusals: A micro series

By Matt Bell

Because the princess was dying of love for the suitor, the suitor who was so athletic and so strong, the…

Finding the Voices: An Interview with Cathy Ulrich

By Cathy Ulrich
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Cathy Ulrich’s story collection, Ghosts of You, published by Okay Donkey Press, hums with the chatter of forgotten women. Ulrich…

DARK: Four micros

By Tara Isabel Zambrano

Living so closely When the girl falls off a cliff, a few people hear a shriek, see a black dot…

So Much Closer Now

By Cathy Ulrich

The girl detective has just turned fourteen. She will be kidnapped a week before her fifteenth birthday, ice cream in…

The Meteor

By Jen Michalski

The meteor fell from the sky and landed in the yard of the couple. It charred the grass and flattened…

Alas, Behind the Garage

By Dan Chaon

Alas, behind the garage where the trash cans are, hunched and weeping, your cousin Glenna says she is pregnant and…

We Smoke

By Sarah Freligh

We smoke because the nuns say we shouldn’t—he-man Marlboros or Salems, slender and meadow fresh, over cups of thin coffee…

Talking About Ernie Banks

By Kathy Fish

Their father drank Hamm’s when he finished his shift. After supper, on good days, he’d grab the boys and hang…

Amelia

By Aubrey Hirsch

Amelia hates it when people call her Amy. Amy is her mother’s name, she tells them, and her grandmother’s name.…

Good Enough

By Shasta Grant

I heard my daughter was working at Laundry & Tan Connection and hoped it wasn’t true but when I went…

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