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The Search

Wayne McMahon
Russell has been trying to find a job for months. The problem isn’t that he can’t get interviews. Russell worked as a project manager for a few years before get...
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Question Begging

Jon Repetti
On an evening in late spring, she sat down at her desk and wrote, “Never again will he ask me, ‘What do you want?’” She paused, frowned, passed her fingers over...
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On The Blade

Andrew Petracca
In hindsight he knew he should have wrecked her engagement.  She gave him every cue imaginable: inviting him over while her fiancé was at work, riding on the ba...
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Other Mothers

Joseph A. Gross
Dori’s house smelled like pizza bagels in the morning, just like it always had in the afternoon, but the upholstered sectional shimmered differently when blanke...
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Pea Soup

Molly Zhu
In the middle of the night, she dreamt fervently of pea soup. Lush and electric green. The soup swirled around in a shallow serving bowl and left an impression ...
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Magic Man

Megan Koch
The room was painted a crimson red, darkening in the corners where it got more damp. It is sunny outside but cloudy through the windows. In the middle was a wid...
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Almost Famous

Claire W. Zhang
You live for those moments when you share a space with someone famous. Your pleasure swells with their fame and wanes with your physical distance; it deepens in...
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Grand Champion

James Callan
There is no princess waiting to be saved. There are no rings, rupees, or coins to collect along the way. There is no prize money. No cheerful celebration. No fu...
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Zoom In

John Thompson Guillén
I’m with my drinking buddies and all I have to do is lean over once and whisper at them, psst, and then I just start on it. It was from a morning where I wok...
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Showered in Gold

Danila Botha
She was always unapologetically pissing his money away. Right now, in her capacity as an executive assistant in an integrated health clinic, she was spending ev...
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The Big Joke

Daniel Roman
The trumpet sounds through intercom speakers in the form of a man’s voice—“2 minutes”—echoing off these blackened underground walls. In “2 minutes” I will learn...
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Dry Ice/Wet Eyes

Don Robishaw
Five Years Ago Yesterday  “What’s the diagnosis, doctor?” “Need a new kidney.” “How much time?” “Five years.”     It's a brisk morning. While tr...
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Water Babies

Mary Thorson
A mother walking towards a lake with a baby is inherently terrifying. It gets more terrifying if it’s her own baby, but anyone’s baby will do. Water, in general...
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Space Mountain

H.M. Ryan
His brother Alex died, they buried him, a few days passed, and then George booked the tickets to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. George got tickets for himsel...
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To the Other Side

Mari Klein
They left their homes with only the essentials: a single suitcase to set out with. All other valuables that proved difficult to move or unnecessary for survival...
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Spaghettification

Emily Buli
When you go through a black hole, your body turns to spaghetti. It can’t withstand the extreme gravitational pressure, so it gets stretched long and thin—a thre...
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VOCABULARY

Peter DeMarco
Henry liked to spell multi-syllabic words, like dilapidated, one of the new words from a sixth grade Halloween vocabulary assignment. For extra credit, the teac...
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