But They'd Never Believe Me by Tommy Dean
The water sloshed against the concrete barrier. How long would we have to stand there before erosion would let us slide right in?
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THIS IS WHAT I WANT & THIS MEADOW by Despy Boutris
🏆 Pushcart Nominated THIS IS WHAT I WANT after Holly Prado uprooted trees filled with Earth’s art, music notes in each particle of...
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More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person & Quars Poetica by Ally Ang
More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person “Nothing is more frightening than looking / and loving what you see.”...
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No Cure by Lucy Zhang
🏆 Nominated for Best Short Fictions The first thing I looked up was whether girls enjoyed giving guys blow jobs. If girls drank...
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A process of cleaning out & Poem for some sort of security by Loisa Fenichell
A process of cleaning out Winter, then, kept the body cold. I was saved by a woman blowing some whistle & corn pipe. My voice was dead. I...
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God Save the Forest by Ashia Ajani
I didn’t intentionally spurn the forest rather it became another question of Southern belonging I didn’t have the patience to unravel....
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Take Me Out by Sarah Perret-Goluboff
Jerry’s leaning against the doorframe. He has one arm crossed against his waist, the other propped up holding the phone. His face is...
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Redacted Love Letter, May 31st by Chloé Allyn
I wonder Frances, will you love me? This day has a bad feeling, less bad than the last few days, Frances because today I woke up thinking...
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Epicaricacy by Mandira Pattnaik
“A sharp and precise incision—you’d think he was a surgeon! Gouged out the animal liver, put it directly into his salivating mouth—warm...
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Poky’s Levitating Grandmother by Jonathan Baker
The first time Poky Jernigan told me about his levitating grandma, I thought he was full of shit. He mentioned it so casually. I figured...
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Be Mine by David Desjardins
When he got his first look at it, Frank wanted to turn right around and let the tax agents keep the dump. The lawyer had warned him. What...
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John in Concord by Chris Sheehan
The house was a sprawling ranch cut into mustard grass and adobe. Oak scrub and manzanita kept a vague property line, stunted and twisted...
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Nicer than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too by Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek
The zombies rattle the high school’s doors or as close to it as something deceasedly lackadaisical can. Mostly, they’re just bumping into...
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Prophecy (Judgment Day) by Angela Wei
Where there is grass, sin. All flesh and fat fish snapping in the pool. Here I come to lull my head and wallow waist-deep in the sweet...
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Like Any Other Vice by David Carrington
🏆 Pushcart Nominated The Vagrant still felt an urge to eat, though his body rejected even the blandest food. Crackers, cornflakes—minute...
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Backstory: Guest Art Director, Russ Rubin
By Russ Rubin Immediately I was struck by the color and rawness of emotion in all these poems and stories and by the idiosyncratic...
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