Elegy by Nicole Callräm
Nicole Callräm (she/her/她) is a nomadic bureaucrat and disciple of existence in all its confusing manifestations. She adores rideshare...
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WHEN THE WRITER TRIES TO MAKE NUMBNESS HUMANE by T.R.San
T.R.San (they/them) is a queer poet based in Yangon who writes horror without meaning to. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in...
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My Grandfather's Gardens by Richard Weaver
The author hopes to one day again volunteer with the Maryland Book Bank, and return as writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. A few...
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And Another Thing by L Mari Harris
My sister Tara says, “Tell me everything you know.” I do her one better and tell her to grab her keys. We park at the far edge of the lot...
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The Sympathy of Clocks by Cate McGowan
The sympathy of clocks is a phenomenon in which a pair of moving clock pendulums in close proximity synchronize movement. 1. The Ship...
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Ashore by Abby Manzella
The summer that the freak, lone wave crashed ashore was the same summer that Mika Carmichael went missing. The wave, which was more like...
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World by Kate Copeland
The trees showed the way, but in the course we couldn’t find the stairs, followed the canal. I remember there were day trippers. I...
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Apocalypse Now by Dorothy Rice
After the last sold-out show of the weekend, I stood sentry behind the concession stand counter, pregnant belly pressed into the cash...
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Thirst by Tara Stillions Whitehead
After six days burning, the Mesa Fire merged with the Jamul Fire, and the air quality got so bad—something over 300 AQI, I think—that the...
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Swimming Upstream by Amy Barnes
We wear Saran Wrap cloaks because real invisibility cloaks are too expensive. We met frantically on Tuesdays for months trying out other...
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Copy Artist by Will Musgrove
Last week, the office photocopier gained sentience. In need of inspiration, I photocopied Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage” and...
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If You Could See Inside Pandora’s Box by Chelsea Stickle
from the Screaming Meemies series Guys like Casey are always trying to prove something. They’re the toughest, the strongest, the baddest....
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The Psychic Receives Yelp Reviews by Chelsea Stickle
from the Screaming Meemies series Patricia N. ...
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Why you can’t believe the weather report, no way, no how by Francine Witte
It’s still yesterday somewhere, almost tomorrow somewhere else. One minute, you’re getting a fistful of sunshine slamming you in the...
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Owen will tell you by Francine Witte
that his name begins with a zero and not the letter O. He will insist that you need to know this. It explains me, he will say. People are...
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Even as little by Francine Witte
as five years old, you would stand in the doorway that wasn’t a doorway, just a spot in the park your father walked you to, told you...
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Even by Dan Crawley
Someone has reserved the beach volleyball court at the park for the office party. Mary wanders up to the sand and waves at Heather, her...
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The Bird Beneath My Feet by Kenton K. Yee
As the sky reddens, it only stares, silent and steady like me. As the sun sets we only stare, although it’s time to sleep. I want it to...
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I'd Break the Pane by Kenton K. Yee
but who I’d see on the other side stops me. Our eyes would meet as if he were alive (though he was never alive). Those eyes—they see a...
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Family History by Kenton K. Yee
In my teens, we moved to the sky. My mother turned to clouds; my father, to rotor blades. I turned to the moon. The blades razed the...
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