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White Trash

By Emily Hampson

Your perfume suffuses the hall, assaulting me before you do. Jo Malone Waterlily. You only wear it at night, a…

Reel

By Diane Glancy

A dream is a film happening while you watch. A boy running with a flowered pillowcase flying from his hand…

Snow

By Mary Elizabeth Dubois

Still, nobody knows if it’s better to write about snow on a country road from an apartment in the middle…

Dead Things I Gave Birth To

By Michelle Brady

The first person I killed didn’t run. I never knew his name, just his crime, so I called him One.…

The Syntax of Silk

By Lindsey Godfrey Eccles

In the small hours of the morning, I forage, taking care to nibble leaves both fibrous and tender, for the…

Blessed

By Laura Leigh Morris

The priest still has a mouth full of cake, crumbs stuck to his lips, when the mom presents a doll…

THE MIGRATION OF DEAD BIRDS

By Sarp Sozdinler

Elena cried for the sparrow, for how it slipped a squeal before it hit the front window, a sound that…

Jumping Off and Falling Out

By Sarah Lynn Hurd

I felt like television static that year—glossy-eyed afternoons at The Bitter End with a magazine straddling my lap, ears straining…

Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog

By Dawn Tasaka Steffler

But I didn’t ask for a dog. I asked for Grand Theft Auto. Mom says, “There are things in that…

Horsebroken

By Meg Pokrass

Handcuffs  On the way to see our boy in the detention centre I was wearing invisible handcuffs. “Don’t try to…

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