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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Modern Breakup by Kenton K. Yee
Fake meat, dry heat while fires spread and there is no great way to say this. The smoke trees are fruiting. People are reaching for their...
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Good Girl by Claudia Smith
I half-believed she'd back down up until the morning we drove to Hobby Airport. On the drive there, she had said, "Remember there is no...
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My Paranormal House by Lindsay Calzone
The day we moved into our new house I noticed two things: the shingles looked less charming in the daylight, and I developed psychic...
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Lake Number by Tyler Barton
She was short on change but changing me, even as I swung on sight at men with money. Her songs had not impressed the punks, lost to their...
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Father catches my eyes in the rear-view mirror and says, "Make sure Cookie stays clean."
by Rachel Laverdiere Before Mother belts herself and Baby Brother into the passenger seat, she straps in Cookie and whisper-warns that we...
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Tickets 1981 by Glenn Verdi
Ted is portly, twenty-six, and uncomfortable in an old blue blazer, gold and blue striped tie and gray dress slacks. The blazer is too...
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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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