Dorothy Paints Poppies from Memory
Because she is still shaking the doorknobs of this broken farmhouse the cyclone heaved from its foundation and dropped like…
How to Take Care (of the Environment)
1. Reduce The first night you eat Peking duck. It is not your first time to consider ducks as food…
Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Shortlist
These 20 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot…
A Language Is a Story
Father says he built the house back in Poland and hauled it with him across the Atlantic. The story goes:…
Monsters, Mystery, & Mayhem Contest Longlist
These 39 stories thrilled us with their specific and creepy details, their attention to character, and their surprises in plot…
Windows
We wait until the soft explosions above deaden to absolute silence—not the kind of silence that listens but the kind…
The Day Never Happened
I did not combine melted butter and eggs in the medium mixing bowl or beat the mixture with the hand…
Orca Girl
wears a killer whale’s tooth like a toe tag and populates every available margin with sketches of the sea Oreos.…
Bone on Bone
My son starts grinding his teeth in the Fall of 3rd grade. As he sleeps. The scraping, the pressure –…
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