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The Story You’ll Never Tell

By Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

That story you’ll never tell is the house on the street in every Seventies horror movie you devoured in the…

For a Short Time Only

By Holly Burns

The summer I babysat the Brady twins, their parents were on the brink of divorce. My parents were on the…

Snagging Blanket

By Abigail F. Taylor

Sundance Lee draped his old snagging blanket around his shoulders. It hadn’t snagged anyone for many years. His legs were…

Fullness

By Payne Ratner

First it was the little porcelain dogs with green glass eyes. Each one in various uniforms. A policeman bulldog, a…

Four

By E.R. Ramzipoor

And because the house was filled with comfortable things, you wondered. As your wife slept under the perfect thread count,…

Reasons to Be Cheerful

By G. Ochsner

One morning, as I stood at the bus stop waiting for the 7:05, my neighbor, Horowitz, drove over my left…

PIEL MUERTA / DEAD SKIN

By Gabriella Navas

She begins each morning by peeling the dead skin off her lips. Sometimes, she feels like she is shucking corn…

My Mother, the Water Monster

By Aeriel Merillat

I drove to the county hospital to pick up my mother. She was not as I suspected. They handed her…

In All The Loveless Places

By Jennifer McMahon

The pretty cowgirl’s mouth is wild with tameless laughter, and the tassels on her calfskin miniskirt and waistcoat dance to…

Intertidal

By Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch

Spirits. Toria doesn’t speak German, but no language is necessary. Her voice melodious with children or men, she tilts her…

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