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Capillary Action
November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Shanique Carmichael It was 2001. I sat on the edge of the velvety, teal couch in my aunt’s two-story home and stared at the frame of the...
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Floating
December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Benjamin Selesnick I don’t have much to pack: a small wad of cash, deodorant and toothbrush, a duffel bag’s worth of clothes. My brother would...
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The Forgotten Voices
December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Emily Mirengoff After my roommate dies and they clear her possessions, I have a few days on my own in room 112. My last roommate didn’t have a...
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How to Be Royal
December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Daniel Riddle Rodriguez The first time I got paid for it, I called myself a queen. I looked out the motel-room window and thought, this is your...
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Dog of War
December 4, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 /Maria Zoccola Stone’s father was an expert birdwatcher. There was a certain species of swallow, he told her, that lived on the banks of the...
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Cappuccino Take U-E
June 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 /Christine Kandic Torres I bought you a sword. It’s weird, I know, and it cost me seventy-five euro that I don’t have, and I’m not sure how I’ll get...
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Feng Shui and Other Subversive Religions
June 9, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 /Yong Takahashi Jackie Miller danced around her kitchen when she learned she landed a temporary-to-permanent position at Finch Life & Casualty....
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Jouma
June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 /Dor Shilton Jouma’s hands were like solid earth, the Great Rift Valley running down his palm. Ran watched him as he heedlessly reached down to the...
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Fault Lines
June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 /Thomas Pia I sat sweating on the front step, working up the energy to begin the slog down to the main road where the mini-bus taxis ran into town....
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Sympathy for Wild Girls
June 12, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 /Demree McGhee Between the slurred lisp of her words, Daisy’s mother starts to whisper to her about dead girls. It starts off as a trickle of...
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How to Skin a Fox
June 13, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 /Kelly Gray Girl is a Fox a Fox is a Girl Tell the girl and a fox a creation story in the moment before they are born. Lead them to their mother...
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Life Stories
November 27, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 /Taylor Mitchell Lou didn’t need another coffee, but she needed to see her reflection again. The café’s insides were a meshwork of devil’s ivy...
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In and Out
December 3, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 /Andrew Jacono And I pointed at him and yelled, Don’t you dare tell me who I am when you don’t even know who the fuck you are, and he looked...
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Objects in Space
December 6, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 /Emily Davis There are certain things that Abigail thinks about. Pins through the roadmap of her brain where her thoughts stop and rest and then...
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Nagano
December 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 /K-Ming Chang My mother had a cousin there. Her name was Aunt Yangyang, the woman who supposedly severed my umbilical cord with her teeth. Like...
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March
April 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 /Bethany Reid The low whistle of the northbound train broke a silence made of the shovel’s grating, of birdsong, of the rasp of Eva’s breath. Maud...
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Zoom Yoga
April 16, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 /Liza Monroy A woman died in Zoom yoga and no one noticed. She fell from against the wall during dolphin pose. We were all on mute. Nobody heard the...
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Gap Year
May 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 /Franz Jørgen Neumann For Martha Kaas, half the thrill of going bohemian was not letting her husband suspect that she had. She appeared to commute to...
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Keening
May 10, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 /Josh Denslow I have my own personal banshee. Most mornings, usually during my second bowl of cereal, she lets out a soul-melting wail to give me a...
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Black & Blue
November 23, 2021/ J. T. Townley Our new target was local. Considering he was responsible for dispatching close to a dozen of us, motivation was not in short supply. Nor wrath and fury, though we tried...
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Ice
May 30, 2022/ Valmic Shridhar Mukund It was cold the night Faruq let Narmina go. The draft climbed over his bare legs, sank into his pores and frosted through his insides. He shivered as he sat at the...
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Collision
June 2, 2022/ Claudia Schatz Let’s not read into it, but I got into my first and only car crash the same day I tried to move to the city where you live. I sat numb in the left lane with a bruise across...
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Facsimile
November 12, 2022/ Tanya Žilinskas My boyfriend’s reasons for bringing home the fax machine were unclear. The insurance office where he worked was a curiosity of anachronism; Sergei and his colleagues...
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Cat Wedding
November 13, 2022/ E. P. Tuazon When it was summertime and there was no school, Edmar’s cousin, Roanna, and her cat came from the Philippines to visit like they always did but, this time, to get...
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The Rucksack is Packed and Hidden in the Pantry
December 3, 2022/ Rachel Laverdiere Now, I will thread my arms through my raincoat and pull on my galoshes. Heave the rucksack onto my back. There is little I’ll miss in this house I’ve been scrubbing...
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What’s Left Beneath When All the Wishes Have Blown Away
December 4, 2022/ Diane D. Gillette I. Kara is 14 and over breakfast, Cousin Martha comes up, how she got herself in trouble running around with boys. “No one’s going to buy the cow if you’re giving...
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Federal School Safety Act 2029
May 31, 2023/ Sage Tyrtle Content Warning: gun violence, children, bird death I was in third grade the year they legalized guns in school. It happened during spring vacation and Mom took me to Staples...
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Simple Gifts
June 1, 2023/ Gina Thayer By the fourth day, Claire was no longer surprised when she went to the freezer for ice and found herself face-to-face with six dead gerbils. It was her daughter’s love that...
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Passing
June 2, 2023/ Dhyanna Raffi-David If your dad died on a mountain in Switzerland, blowing an alpine horn, if his anterior cerebral artery ruptured, and your mom told you his final breath flew...
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What Tempts Our Wives
November 18, 2023/ Sarah Horner My wife no longer washes her hands when she comes in from the garden. I find traces of earth around the house: dirty fingerprints on the refrigerator handle, last...
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