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    sanctuary by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala
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    sanctuary by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala

    German Dario resides in Tempe, Arizona with his wife, two sons, three dogs, a guinea pig, many plants, and sometimes a fish. Recently...
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    I Could Kill You If I Wanted To by Kelle Groom
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    I Could Kill You If I Wanted To by Kelle Groom

    🏆 Nominated for Best Short Fictions I knew him in the way you know someone from a bar where you’re a regular. But he’s not a regular;...
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    Lady by Anthony Okpunor
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    Lady by Anthony Okpunor

    A sequel to Craziness Before the moon swells, and a god untangles a knot at my thighs, and my room smells blue in summer & mistletoe, my...
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    Gnome Solution by Jasmine Sawers
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    Gnome Solution by Jasmine Sawers

    Raccoon problems are chucklesome. When garbage strewn across the driveway and the lawn reveal your raccoon problem, of course, you’re...
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    Symploké by Frank Passani
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    Symploké by Frank Passani

    What was that? What was it? I recall reading it on the bluish leather couch while she was breakfasting at the kitchen table under that...
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    Cross on the Highway by Anthony D’Aries
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    Cross on the Highway by Anthony D’Aries

    🏆 Pushcart Nominated I’m still not sure it’s legal. A young cop stopped us once, asked what we were doing, and when I told him, he...
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    Third Kidney by Kaitlyn Burd
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    Third Kidney by Kaitlyn Burd

    I admit I’m freaked out about going under in two days to get big teeth from the back of my mouth pulled, and somehow this devolves into...
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    Side Gate by John Brantingham
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    Side Gate by John Brantingham

    You’re standing by the side gate of your place, waiting for your son to come home on the first day that he’s walking home from school on...
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    Back to School by Ian Woollen
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    Back to School by Ian Woollen

    Our Illinois college town was a complicated organism, the busy campus of Prairie State, way more than an educational institution. It...
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    Resurrection Blues by Garrett Rowlan
    • 12 min

    Resurrection Blues by Garrett Rowlan

    The black dog died of blunt force trauma. It happened at dusk on the first hole, the shortest of the three-hole golf course that Mike...
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    A Man Belongs to Women by Gladwell Pamba
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    A Man Belongs to Women by Gladwell Pamba

    It was common knowledge that Nairobi was one big bedroom. He came into her life when this fact no longer kept her awake at night. She...
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    A Cool Breeze in August by Rick Stein
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    A Cool Breeze in August by Rick Stein

    John Simmons sat quietly on that stinking hot August day, listening to the wheels grind over the seams in the railroad track. Like a...
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    Backstory: sanctuary by K.D. Harryman
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    Backstory: sanctuary by K.D. Harryman

    sanctuary by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala can be read in Issue Three. The poem “sanctuary” by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala was one of...
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    Courtside Tickets for the Nightmare by Lauren Christiansen
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    Courtside Tickets for the Nightmare by Lauren Christiansen

    I tweeted a while back that “parts of my life right now feel like I'm in the early stages of a comedy film, where everything is totally...
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    Moon Landing  by Erin Carlyle
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    Moon Landing by Erin Carlyle

    When daddy went to the moon, I sat quietly at home, moonless. I thought to myself: I’d eat it all, and the crust of the earth, if I...
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    Having a Baby at 43 by Debora Kuan
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    Having a Baby at 43 by Debora Kuan

    🏆 Pushcart Nominated Your body is the oldest house on the block now. Or so it feels. Its tall frame heaves from the cold push of winter....
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    Backstory: Art by Gabriela Knutson
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    Backstory: Art by Gabriela Knutson

    by Gabriela Knutson It was a pleasure and a joy to select images from my collection and pair them together with the poetry, flash, and...
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    Editor's Note - Fall 2021

    Dear Reader, Every issue of Five South not only represents the mindsets of our writers but the world at large. So, what’s on everyone’s...
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    Backstory: Cross on the Highway by Andy K. Smith
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    Backstory: Cross on the Highway by Andy K. Smith

    In August of 2012, a couple of close friends and I embarked on a cross-country tour from Los Angeles to San Antonio. The three of us were...
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    A Vision of Sunken Beauty by Sam Wilcox
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    A Vision of Sunken Beauty by Sam Wilcox

    Sam Wilcox is an emerging poet and artist living and teaching in eastern Tennessee. They are interested in materiality and form. When...
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