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What I’m Saying Is

By Jeffrey Hermann

There’s a beautiful beach. You get there by walking through a shady path, and then you’re on the soft sand.…

The Guy in the Redwood Water Tank

By Melissa Llanes Brownlee

I once fucked a guy in a redwood water tank. The kind that once held water caught from rain, maybe…

What Might Turn

By Lydia Gwyn

My face turns into my aunt’s face as I age. Now we know what she would have looked like at…

The Blob Takes Manhattan

By Chelsea Stickle

Now that the Arctic isn’t cold anymore, The Blob is awake and tearing through malls like a post-breakup trust fund…

Seed Money

By Sara Hills

For only seventy-seven dollars, the TV preacher promises God will grant me a miracle. He clasps his hands in prayer,…

Hunger

By Gillian OShaughnessy

I bury my dead in this garden. Over there, under the cabbage roses. They haunt me through the day. At…

You Are What You Eat

By Barbara Diggs

so I know you are eggs. Sunny side up, salmonella-scrambled, salsa-slathered, over-hard yellow-white discs fried in bacon grease until the…

Softening

By Ruth Joffre

I used to tell people that my first kiss was on a December night, under a pine tree, when a…

Splinter

By Didi Wood

We’re not allowed to leave the yard, even when the other kids are playing in the wooded triangle everyone calls…

Vermilion Cliffs

By Allison Field Bell

Colors baked into a layer cake of rock. A hot and dry May in Arizona. We cannot drink enough water.…

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