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The Touch Forecast

By Claudia Monpere

Your best friend, Meg, is scared for you. She wants to accompany you to the lake, but you need to…

The Uranium Bird

By Dennis Michael

The uranium bird has been picking seeds from my lawn. It’s easy to tell where it’s been; it leaves behind…

The Hunt

By Kristin Jensen

We were in search of eggs. White ones like the moon, and some as big as newborn puppies in the…

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…

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