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housekeeping

By Wenyi Xue

Call your mother at 3 am, and when she asks why you are awake so late, tell her you recently…

What To Do If Someone Tries To Tell You Bad News

By Kim Magowan

Perhaps you will find yourself in this situation, returning late at night to a university campus, deserted for the summer.…

Mother, False

By Tara Isabel Zambrano

The girl grows overnight after her mother dies–two extra hands emerge from her back, like the Hindu goddess Durga. Her…

The Clay of It

By Anais Godard

When he walked into her studio, Elodie was sculpting her seventh ceramic penis of the week. This one had antlers.…

Cotton Mouth

By Janna Miller

I A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven. It waits for me just outside my front door, stretched out…

Child

By Amil Amin

I look down at my phone and it says Baba and I realize I haven’t seen him since that time…

Baby Goat on the Roof

By Sara Hills

“You’re dead to me,” Cas says when I dart back inside the house and catch her dancing through the living…

I Regret to Inform You I Made These Plans When I Gave a Shit and Things Have Changed

By Mario Aliberto III

Willow doesn’t even get the satisfaction of saying Brandon broke up with her. They were never a couple, not officially,…

The Flavours We’ll Lose

By Brecht De Poortere

My daughter, Chiara, turns five today. I get up when it’s still dark because, if I wait until after the…

The Scarecrow Takes a Series of IQ Tests

By Dustin M. Hoffman

Predict the next shape in the pattern. Here is a wolf’s heart. Here is a wooden crucifix. Here is an…

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