The First Good One - Niki Byrne
Everything you need to know about women, you can learn by rolling a cigarette. But I don’t know how to roll a cigarette. You also know...
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Feb 26, 20213 min read
Sunshine State - Mandy Clark
You’ve just stepped out of the movie theater into the humidity of a late August day. You weren’t particularly moved by the flick,...
Feb 25, 20213 min read
Hills to Die On - Madison Robinson
It was Nat’s first time being anywhere between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. Humid salinity. Drink bar. Squishy mucky sand. Hippy...
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Mother Knows Best - Rita Redd
The sun and I yawn, the time of day when light spreads like a pesticide. Leaves you drowsy in the poppies like Dorothy, limp as a noodle....
Feb 1, 20214 min read
We Were a Lie - Tamerlie J. Philippe
That day he threw us out my mother and me. Very few people know this. Not my older sister, not my older brother. That day, he packed up...
Jan 27, 20213 min read
Jacarandas - Colette Estelle McCormick
When she looked at that jacaranda she did not see what they saw. She did not see it’s lush, creamy periwinkle petals that floated in the...
Jan 26, 20214 min read
The Magic Airplane - Kimberly Parish Davis
The child lay on her stomach, elbows supporting her upper body, legs bent at the knees, bare feet in the air. She rested half in, half...
Jan 11, 20213 min read
It’s Not Me, It’s You - Melina Maria Morry
What did I do to make you not want me? Was it something I said? Something I did? Did my body change, or was it yours? Do you see me...
Jan 10, 20212 min read
White Feathers - Roberta Beary
You want to scream as you feel his gold ring which matches yours pressing down which you notice as an afterthought and you don’t scream...
Dec 29, 20204 min read
The Millpond - Kira Wronska Dorward
Everyone called it the Millpond. Built by an enterprising gentleman to run his saw mill a hundred and twenty-five years before, the...
Dec 26, 20203 min read
Fleas - Elizabeth Conard
We slept with the fleas that August. The house was situated along the White River, about twenty minutes from West Lebanon, New Hampshire....
Nov 7, 20204 min read
Missed Connections - Melanie Thompson
You asked me if I liked Van Gogh. “What?” My eyebrows rose. “The Irises,” you said, motioning to the purple flowers sifting down the...
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