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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Along the Periphery by Hema Nataraju

You say you can’t bear to live with my parents anymore. I love them, but I choose you, so we move out of their warm basement and into an...

A Baptism by Nathaniel Spain

Follow the irrigation ditch beyond the railway line and you come to a thicket of willow trees. Between them the hem of a chain-link fence...

Sextant by Debra Mihalic Staples

In 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard led a successful expedition across the Labrador wilderness, then published A Woman’s Way Through Unknown...

Wolves in Yellowstone by Lauren Voeltz

I've been watching Dad suffer all weekend in Yellowstone National Park. He hasn't been the same since the divorce. Our campsite is on a...

Lost in Landscapes by Rachel Canwell

We have come here to walk, convinced that a change of scenery and aimless miles are the answer, or the beginnings of an answer. An...

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