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In The Closet

By Grace Elliot

When you start needing a place to scream, you try most of the rooms in the house. You start with…

Picking Up Stones

By William Bradley

Two-lane rural route to the boatyard, boondocks enough for hoedowns, cross-burnings, not that I knew much about either, except they…

Giving Up

By Cathy Cade

My sister turns her key in the lock and pushes. The door moves a handbreadth. Mum croaks from the living…

Dirty Shirley

By Shannon Bowring

They say she’ll do anything for a tenner. She’s fourteen. She lives in the trailer park across from the river.…

It’s Still There

By Robert Garner McBrearty

Maybe I was twenty-one or so, somewhere around there, young anyway, and I don’t remember much about where this all…

Fusion

By Diane Kraynak

The love story starts here. I am dreaming of Orlando Bloom when I’m awakened by an icy poke into my…

Cold Comfort

By Rachel O'Cleary

This is the third year that she has haunted me. She is pale and slightly shimmery, as if brushed with…

Fish Folk

By Breana Harris

The other moms at the beach are skinny and sharp, all oiled angles and monochromatic bikinis. Mira and I don’t…

Where Have All the Children Gone

By Avitus B. Carle

After the war, a corkboard appears in the center of the village. No one knows how it got there. Only…

Hung the Sun

By Avra Margariti

Sometimes I need it to be dark. That’s what I need. For it to be dark. I lean out my…

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