Mama's Car by Ariadne Will
I’m walking in the rain when I start humming that song from Mama’s car all those years ago. We had only listened to cassette tapes then,...
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Nov 13, 20232 min
Things You Own by Maggie Hart
I meet a man obsessed with bones. He runs impatient fingertips over my ribcage & grabs my hip bones & kisses my teeth instead of my lips,...
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Oct 15, 20232 min
Love, Cigarettes, and Lavender by Claudia Wair
I remember how much I loved to read as a kid. Books took me from my solitary life as an only child and transported me to Dickens’ London,...
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Oct 1, 20232 min
I, a Piper by Landon Wittmer
An indefinite number of rats populate the world. All estimates fall in the billions, but this does not include the number of mice,...
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Sep 17, 20233 min
Bitter Birds by Bucket Siler
Lock your bicycle in the alleyway where the restaurants empty their trash. Food truck exhaust mixed with garbage smell and the pavement...
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Sep 10, 20234 min
I'm the Squid by Angela Townsend
I have a friend who never uses the word “creatures.” I’m not sure I’ve heard him say “living things.” If he is speaking of humans,...
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Mar 12, 20233 min
Keeper of Magic by Emily Holi
Oops! usually followed by a wink. A few times a month. How do you keep them all straight? Weekly, probably. Have you ever heard of...
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Sep 25, 20222 min
All We Eat is Words by Emily Baber
Now all we eat is words. We used to eat sorrel and pawpaw and hen of the woods. We used to grow our own galangal and hot peppers and...
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Sep 18, 20223 min
Seasonal Depression by Sammi Leigh Melville
In my childhood, snow was magic. As the days grew shorter and the temperatures dropped, I became dizzy with the prospect of bright eyes,...
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Aug 28, 20223 min
Cords by Bethany Jarmul
My newborn is blue, not breathing, her umbilical cord wrapped three times around her neck. “Is she okay? Is she okay?” My voice catches...
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Jul 24, 20222 min
Dinkelmehl 630 by Anna Nguyen
I used to bake quite often. So often that whenever we go to the grocery store, I make it a habit to add a bag of flour into the shopping...
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Jul 3, 20224 min
A Splitting Open by Alaina Scarano
It’s what new parents call the witching hour, what people without kids call happy hour. I am standing under nearly scalding water,...
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Jun 19, 20222 min
Rocky by Adrienne Rozells
As a child, I loved the Gem and Mineral Society. They have a building at Balboa Park in San Diego. It’s got the same adobe design as the...
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Jun 12, 20221 min
Sweet and Silent by Kristina T. Saccone
I kick my legs in the shopping cart until Mom hands me a warm cookie from the bakery. The weekly trip to the grocery store means crinkly...
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Jun 5, 20221 min
As Fast as She Can by Janna Miller
The open road starts with a gifted car, decorative flowers spray-painted in a fluorescent-bright parking lot. A girl laughs as drips run...
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May 29, 20222 min
Ghost Talk by Jared Povanda
I love the bench’s broken legs, the white bone of metal underneath the red paint. Here is an elegant decline into new spring weeds, into...
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May 15, 20226 min
Two CNFs by Sam Moe
October Ocean I don’t get out of bed until I become so sick of researching jellyfish stings that the navy comforter starts to feel like a...
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May 8, 20222 min
Chlorine Kiss by Holly Hagman
The summer air is hot and damp as the sun disappears behind the faded fence posts in the shadows of the backyard. I revel in the sounds:...
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May 1, 20223 min
Plan for Going to a Music Festival with Generalized Anxiety Disorder by Annie Marhefka
If you ask a person without generalized anxiety disorder how they plan for a music festival, they say things like: “Wear layers in case...
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Apr 10, 20222 min
O by Wendy Newbury
They appeared in kaleidoscope colors, in the form of Siamese fighting fish, gliding about the room, performing graceful pirouettes. She’d...
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