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The Cloud Lab

By Megan Callahan

In science class, Margot teaches them about the magic of snow. “Evaporation, condensation, deposition,” she says. On the whiteboard she…

Maid In America

By Christine H. Chen

When I go in, the sink is bursting with unwashed dishes coated with moldy leftover scraps, half-filled glasses, cups that…

BRAIN, BRIAN

By Whitney Collins

Marvin’s tumor is the size of an unshelled walnut. His doctor, who wears bile-colored Crocs, has told Marvin and Marvin’s…

Patrons

By Hillary Ann Colton

The shades are pulled down by Mick before the summer sunsets. Mick is a regular: he spends every day, open…

Launch Day Conditions: 1986

By Elizabeth Conway

Kerry found a hundred-dollar bill at the gas station near pump three. It was covered in oil. She carried the…

Autopsy

By Aimee LaBrie

It wasn’t a date exactly. He said, “Do you want to see a dead body?” I said yes.  I would…

Submission Guidelines

By Tonee Moll

We want your very best work! Writers at every stage of their career are encouraged to submit, but we want…

Into the White

By Gillian OShaughnessy

The wolves are out again. I can hear them, their hollow wails in the pines, slicing through a storm of…

Galgalim

By Eric Pahre

It is not an air raid. Above the city’s steepled church-tops the two planes break from the clouds. Sunlit rain…

Background

By K. A. Polzin

I didn’t have any theater experience, but when I saw the ad for background actors for a local play, I…

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