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romantic connecticut

By Dani Blackman

there is no romantic connecticut the text says, but I don’t take this as rejection. I don’t blame autocorrect. I…

Tiny Little Goat

By Jasmine Sawers

After you left, a goat took up residence in the left ventricle of my heart. I didn’t know about my…

Boy

By Tochukwu Okafor

Boy, on the night your mother brought you into this noisy, miserable world, at exactly 11:18 pm, on a rainy…

A Middle Finger Flipped on a School Bus

By Davon Loeb

On the school bus you should have seen them, monkeying around about wheels, bottles of non-alcoholic beers, Rock-Paper-Scissor, two kids…

Cheerleader

By John Haggerty

Alison was a cheerleader, and the second-prettiest girl in our class. These qualities seemed extremely important to us at the…

No Matter How Pretty They Look

By Kristina Saccone

It was our first once-a-month grandmother-granddaughter date at the JCC. I hopped on the treadmill while you did Jazzercise, all…

Your Lover, The Clown

By Iona Rule

You meet him at your niece’s birthday party, where the kids run feral, coked-up on pink juice and icing. While…

Remember Your Goals

By Michele Zimmerman

Write down your goals for tomorrow. Write down your goals on a small pocket-sized notepad so that you can take…

Spatchcock

By Sarah Rosenthal

The whole bird lay naked on the cutting board. Iris had received the wooden board as a wedding present. It…

Dust

By Terri Pease

There was a lot of dust on them mens. Me, keepin’ off the wooden sidewalk while keeping an eye, a…

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