Every Ending by Phebe Jewell
Alone in her room, Gladys traces the edge of the world, picturing a wall with a sign: “The End.” She watches herself climb to the top of...
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Nov 91 min read
We Thought We'd Always Have the Mountains by David Henson
We never imagined life without them. Then one day, with no eruption or rending of earth, Poof — peaks, slopes and valleys are fields,...
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Oct 262 min read
Wake Robin by Amy Allen
The snow has finally left us—the last bit of it melted into a puddle at the top of the driveway. Foraging robins scatter across the...
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Oct 122 min read
How To Have a Crush by Alison Wassell
Smile sweetly when his bag whacks you on the head as he makes his way to the back of the bus. Whisper ‘no problem’ even though he hasn’t...
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Jun 91 min read
Breaking News in Slow Motion by Steve Gergley
On the first day of August, the lake in the forest swelled like the belly of a waterlogged corpse. I sat on the shore and wrote a book...
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May 121 min read
Lady in Yellow by Vallie Lynn Watson
The lady in yellow didn’t dance at the show. Sad. Back in grad school, there was this happy-to-tagalong girlfriend of another student....
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Apr 143 min read
Tomorrow's Special by Heain Joung
I am going to prepare one of your favorite meals. You will like it, I’m sure. To start I will put dried anchovies, onions and some...
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Mar 241 min read
Out of Place by Suzanne Hicks
I was born to live on land like the others before me. For a time, I did, until my legs started to curl just below my knees. It wasn’t...
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Mar 101 min read
Wishing the Horse by David Henson
He’d been wishing the horse his whole life. As a boy, he managed the tail, pinned to nothing out back. As he grew older, the outline of...
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Feb 252 min read
Sky Teeth by Catherine Roberts
I lie on my back in the clearing, holding a telescope to my eye, tired or dying - I don’t know which. I used to look for them in...
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Feb 112 min read
Rinse and Repeat by Hilary Ayshford
He'd always meant to learn to use the washing machine in the flat, but the instructions were a foreign language. His lack of domesticity...
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Jan 281 min read
American Mourning Dove by Elena Zhang
I have a secret I clutch in my hands. It’s that I miss you. Who can I tell – my brother, my coworker, my husband? None of them would...
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Jan 143 min read
Cameron Diaz is my life coach by Cole Beauchamp
Strapped for cash, Cameron Diaz sold her digital image rights to a start-up called GeneTech. Back then, no one really knew where it could...
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Dec 24, 20231 min read
Campfire Food by Sarah R. New
If reincarnation is real, I want to come back as campfire food. A jacket potato, baked in foil. Rolled out of the bonfire with a large...
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Dec 10, 20232 min read
When the Stars Fall by Cathy Ulrich
The stars, when they fall, fall like rain, like broken-wing birds, like falling stars. The sky goes velvet black in their absence. They...
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Oct 29, 20231 min read
Stars Falling in an Empty Field by lae astra
After a day's hike, you arrive and head straight for the center, where the tiny star sits crying in a dimly lit heap. All of the other...
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Sep 3, 20231 min read
The Rent in the Galaxy by Travis Flatt
When Earth wakes up thirsty and reaches for the nightstand and can't find the glass she always sets out the night before, she'll think,...
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Aug 27, 20232 min read
Signals by Mikki Aronoff
The teacup rattles on its saucer as it crosses the space between wife and husband. The wife raises her eyebrows for a refill, then...
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Aug 20, 20234 min read
Grosseries by Julius Olofsson
With a shopping basket in his hand, he stands there. He took the bus. Others around him came riding upon genetically engineered Great...
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Jul 9, 20232 min read
Our Years of Golden Horses by Lynn Mundell
When one of them was 8 and the other 9, they drew horses on the printer paper one of the dads brought home from his office. Green horses,...
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