Feb 19, 2024
"Two for Dinner" by Edward Ahern
I watched a fly join several others on an adhesive strip. I wondered how long it would take him to die. A day or two at least. I also...
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Feb 15, 2024
"Weak Week" by Russ Bickerstaff
Monday Trina, Apartment 311 Wake up into a whole new week. The news turns on. Something about tensions overseas. I shower to try to...
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Feb 13, 2024
"Lila’s Left Wing" by Jordyn Elizabeth Pimental
My dreamiest day of the week is Tuesday. I’ve tracked nearly every dream I’ve had since I was twelve years old and for the past six or so...
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Feb 6, 2024
"The Old Guy" by Laura Shell
What I'm about to reveal is the stuff they tell you to keep to yourself or share with a group or save for a professional. It's of blood and
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Feb 3, 2024
"who is, I am" by Adedapo Adeniyi and Saint Adam
Mummy Adanma had just gotten back from another day of work at the farm, she lived in a village called Nsugbe in Onitsha along with her...
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Jan 25, 2024
"Whatever Happened to Candy?" by Mather Schneider
I crawled out of bed and went down to the gas station to buy a newspaper and a coffee. Then I flipped through the help wanted ads. Sell...
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Jan 13, 2024
"ALT + END" by Felix Anker
According to my grandmother, not finishing my meal would bring rain, but it never did. Until last week. Last week we had potato soup, I...
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Jan 4, 2024
"Ascent to Mt. Carmel" by Jessie Lifton — part two
Later that same week, a muggy week in September, between all the black holes, I remember watching over my mother’s shoulder, as she...
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Jan 1, 2024
"Ascent to Mt. Carmel" by Jessie Lifton — part one
1.​ ​ I once told my Mother, a few years ago, when I was maybe 14, that if she died I would lose my mind. I said it like it was a joke....
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Dec 25, 2023
"Theory of a Dog" by James Krendel-Clark
"Dogs, according to their transcendental philosophy, ought to improve their nature, and to behave better." -George Santayana, "The Irony...
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