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Grilled Cheese

By Addison Hoggard

Step 1: Butter both sides of two pieces of bread. Put mayonnaise on the outside of both.  The crows outside…

THE BABY BORN IN 1944

By Dianalee Velie

-after the paintings, The Baby (1944) and Artist’s Daughter by the Sea (1943) by Milton Avery Why I chose to…

A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth Sorrow to the daughter she grew in the garden

By Vic Nogay

Dear Ginny, It’s the last night of September. This week, your leaves started to change—darkest green to richest red. Your growth…

Tennis Elbow

By Kim Magowan

For thirty-one of their thirty-two years together, Lydia and Meredith shared an evolving dumb joke which started one day in…

Echoes of Rusty Children

By Tatyana Sundeyeva

When the war comes, I do not hear it. There are no planes overhead; It is civil, I am later…

Kichi Sibi

By Kim Murdock

If she’d been a regular girl like Janey, painting her nails whisper pink and talking with an affectation on the…

What’s Wrong With Sienna?

By mandira pattnaik

You can probably imagine a husband-not-baby say he’s hungry, and the woman-his-wife Sienna hurry and scurry, her hands and fingers…

The Scientist

By Jenny Irish

Toodle-loo, Kangaroo The last known living slender crawfish died in a small pool (technically, a kitty litter box, but perfectly…

Raisin

By Sara Chansarkar

I wake up to your moaning while releasing yourself in the bathroom without bothering to run the faucet or the…

What You Wouldn’t Do

By Sarah Freligh

Metaphors for a Tumor Like a spaceship was flying through a meteor shower in her boy’s skull. Knock knock, he’d…

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