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    Jones - Happy Birthday
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    Jones - Happy Birthday

    wake from summer’s sleep to rosehip frost and cold blue skies shirt cuffs stained with linseed oil door frame swollen in overnight rain...
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    In this short life that lasts more than an hour by Maria Castro Domínguez
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    In this short life that lasts more than an hour by Maria Castro Domínguez

    I’ll stop listening to the news, instead listen to the birds, their wings and the wind and how it edges doors open. I’ll wake up at dawn...
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    Hope Unplumed by Maria Castro Domínguez
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    Hope Unplumed by Maria Castro Domínguez

    I lost you but found you. Hope. I hope you’re much better. I hope you know who I am. I hope I’ll be a better stranger, lover, daughter,...
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    Review: Ursula Lake. "A Joyful Spot on the Fishing Trip of a Lifetime" by David Nash
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    Review: Ursula Lake. "A Joyful Spot on the Fishing Trip of a Lifetime" by David Nash

    Can a smile cast with sincerity be anything but good? That’s one of the many questions Charles Harper Webb poses in his novel, Ursula...
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    If Moons Collide by Tommy Dean
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    If Moons Collide by Tommy Dean

    Mia flicked the cigarette butt into the air, burning end, a cancerous firefly, drunk on the night air. The boy, four years younger, and...
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    Oh, You’re a Mean Old Daddy, but You’re Out of Sight
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    Oh, You’re a Mean Old Daddy, but You’re Out of Sight

    A Review of Jayne Martin's The Daddy Chronicles. By Dave Nash “Memory is like shards of glass from a broken mirror where pieces have gone...
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    Dear Child: An Explanation of Why I Never Had You by Tresha Faye Haefner
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    Dear Child: An Explanation of Why I Never Had You by Tresha Faye Haefner

    The truth is, you were better in the imagination. Staring out a window watching snow fall into caverns. The truth is I never wanted this...
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    What Is It to be Sick by Adrienne Marie Barrios and Leigh Chadwick
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    What Is It to be Sick by Adrienne Marie Barrios and Leigh Chadwick

    Leigh Chadwick thinks bed is good. She says, Bed is where people should be when they should be in bed. Adrienne Barrios tries to nod with...
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    Maybe This Is Something After All by Adrienne Marie Barrios and Leigh Chadwick
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    Maybe This Is Something After All by Adrienne Marie Barrios and Leigh Chadwick

    Leigh Chadwick listens to “Step” by Vampire Weekend while driving to the Orange Hat. She’s two miles south of Clinch River when she sees...
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    Shepherd's Pie by Sophie Develyn
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    Shepherd's Pie by Sophie Develyn

    1 tbsp oil 1 large onion 4 cloves garlic 2-3 medium carrots 1 turnip, elderly 500g pack lamb mince large splash Worcester sauce 2 tins of...
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    Compassionate Humor: On John Weir's "Your Nostalgia  is Killing Me"
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    Compassionate Humor: On John Weir's "Your Nostalgia is Killing Me"

    By Jessica Willingham John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a...
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    There is News Along The Ohio River, IV-VIII by Beth Gilstrap
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    There is News Along The Ohio River, IV-VIII by Beth Gilstrap

    You have come to call her Mama, this water. Today she is high and rising still, ornery in the midday sun, carrying trees that stood tall...
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    Madeline Anthes, Our 2022 Spring Flash Fiction Prize Guest Judge
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    Madeline Anthes, Our 2022 Spring Flash Fiction Prize Guest Judge

    The Five South Prize in Short Fiction celebrates both emerging and established talent. This year's prize is judged by Madeline Anthes....
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    The Things We Found in Your Purse by Cathy Ulrich
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    The Things We Found in Your Purse by Cathy Ulrich

    A book called “Conversational Korean,” pages dog-eared and worn, and we wondered if you would have insisted that your friends call you...
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    The Home Is Six Hens Which Never Lay Eggs by Alina Stefanescu
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    The Home Is Six Hens Which Never Lay Eggs by Alina Stefanescu

    The home is those animals who eat and keep trying. Two parents, a little sister, the trusted friendship of crimson azaleas. The hearth is...
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    This Is How You Groom a Dog by Shaindel Beers
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    This Is How You Groom a Dog by Shaindel Beers

    1. The woman looks ridiculous with opera gloves and sunglasses on indoors. She makes a kissing noise to a tiny, ghost-white schnauzer...
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    Space Race by Warren Woessner
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    Space Race by Warren Woessner

    When John and I tried to make rocket fuel in my basement lab, we ground up sodium chlorate and sugar, and it blew up. Pieces of the glass...
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    In the Belly of California's Central Valley by Cecil Morris
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    In the Belly of California's Central Valley by Cecil Morris

    In the flat and dusty nowhere between two glorious somewheres, dust lacquered our shoes, conditioned our hair, desiccated the skin we...
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    Our Bodies and All Their Limitations by Melissa Darcey Hall
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    Our Bodies and All Their Limitations by Melissa Darcey Hall

    We discover our ghost selves one Saturday night while sneaking sips of tart-as-cherry pinot noir, the bottle stolen from Renata’s...
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    The Castaway by K. Albasi
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    The Castaway by K. Albasi

    Whenever that question, “where’re ya from,” invariably arose among the transients and tourists alike thrust together in the service...
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