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Dec 20, 20243 min read
Unwrapping Christmas, a Short Story by Awara Fernandez
Secondly, the rest of the children’s voices suddenly rose up and filled the room.
And then, John began to spin.


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Nov 22, 20246 min read
Looking for God in My Enemy’s Breath, an Essay by Jessica Natasha Lawrence
—it’s the pain of those unmet needs that exposes your claws and bares your teeth. Every fallen feather is a prayer—God, save this world.


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Oct 25, 20245 min read
Baggage, a Short Story by Elizabeth Rose
Without waiting for an answer, he retrieved my turquoise suitcase and handed it over to me.
“Thank you,” I said.


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Oct 4, 20246 min read
A Happy Seat, a Short Story by Kenneth M. Kapp
You got your Happy Seat; I’m going to have my Grouch Chair. Figured if I get down I may as well sit down...I tried it already. It works.


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Sep 27, 20244 min read
Slaughtering Lies, a Short Story by Awara Fernández
There has been harm in my story, and as in all good stories, an enemy lurking. Sometimes we say, “I would not wish this on my worst enemy,”


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Aug 23, 20244 min read
Mother's Day, a Short Story by Kenneth M. Kapp
Old age does have its perks. I don’t have to take off my shoes going through security when I fly.


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Jul 26, 20242 min read
Masquerading as Crows, a Short Story by Awara Fernandez
Until then, I long for my father to find rest, to fly away on the wings of a dove,* which is perhaps masquerading as a crow...


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Jun 28, 20244 min read
Sheridan from Cavan, an Essay by Maeve McCormack
The last time I passed by the house it was derelict and overgrown, regressing to an Irish-style wilderness.


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May 31, 20245 min read
Daily Resurrection, Creative Non-fiction by Beth Yoakum
Her writing became bolder. In the long, lonely hours alone, she ruminated over the fate of those captured.


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May 3, 20248 min read
Ventriloquist, a Short Story by R. Craig Sautter
“If there is no God, what is left?” he interrogated himself. He stood motionless in a warm, dry wind, felt himself falling into an eternity


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Apr 5, 20245 min read
Moria, a Short Story by Caroline Siebbeles
My home in Syria, loud bangs I hear, my hands on my ears, mama say bombs fall from the sky, she grab me down the stairs like she is the wind


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Feb 2, 20242 min read
She Lifts Her Burka, a Prose Poem by Alicia Viguer-Espert
This woman who shows me her lovely fifteen-year-old face, polished nails bright red, and the green eyes of a 1985 National Geographic cover.


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Jan 5, 20248 min read
Whys and Wherefores, a Short Story by William Cass
Luis had been a patient of mine for less than a year. He’d been referred to me by his primary care physician on the south side of San...


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Nov 3, 20233 min read
МОЇ ЖІНКИ / My Women, Prose by Yuliia Iliukha, translated into English by Hanna Leliv
жінка, яку окупували у власному домі, перетворилася на страх. вона боялася, що її здасть сусідка навпроти. кілька років тому вони аж до...


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Sep 29, 20233 min read
My New Father Has More and Better, a Short Story by Awara Fernandez
Our sons lived for five years in an orphanage in the rainforest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru after their biological parents died. When our...


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Sep 8, 20236 min read
Lost Boys, a Short Story by Ann van Wijgerden
Chaos. Wrenching at her. It will sweep her away if it can. Clari’s left hand grips the gummy steering wheel, her right the stubborn gear...


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Aug 25, 20232 min read
Neverland, Flash Fiction by Daylund Prior
I am not a lost boy.
Lost girl. It doesn’t sound the same, the name doesn’t roll off the tongue. No, girls cannot be allowed in Neverland.


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Jul 21, 20232 min read
Golden Triangle, 2022, Non-fiction by Donna Obeid
I looked for everything the way it was twenty years ago. Buffalo boys balancing on the horizon. Bungalows on stilts with woven reed...


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Jul 7, 20231 min read
August 27th at 3:43 p.m. Flash Fiction by Thomas Elson
At this stage in his life he worried about everything. Five days before his seventy-eighth birthday, he scanned his body. Eyes cloudy....


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Jun 2, 20237 min read
Stationery, Short Story by Kenneth M. Kapp
Harry pneumatically lowered the front of the bus. John smiled, went along with the joke, and hunched over as if he were an old man. He...
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