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Sticky Socks

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CW: suicide, eating disorders, self-harm     In college, Henry would say, “I’m going to make a self-portrait,” before going into a stall, dropp...
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Sip

Sean van der Heijden
You are the only one left in your family. Take a sip of water, you’ll be fine. It was quite the set of circumstances. Remarkable, really. I’ve never seen ...
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Spyder

Wilson Koewing
It is true that if you look down a lot of shitty streets in Denver you can see dusted peaks and it does resemble the Coors logo. To escape downtown, I’d walk ou...
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SPACE CAPSULE

Michael Morris
I never had plans to be an astronaut, but somehow I ended up in outer space.  For several decades I had to come to terms with the fact that there was something ...
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Dr. Snoop Marley

Kate Faigen
It was 7 p.m. on a Saturday and Cinderella 99 Hospital was in a panic. The surgeon was late for surgery. To top it off, it was senior prom night, so I, the ER f...
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Group

Scott Mitchel May
Old Fashioneds in WI are different because WI is different, not the same, a weird kind of a place, full of friendly faces, welcoming, charged with the kind of t...
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Brain Worms

Nick Thorburn
The good news: The wife won big. The bad news: I have brain worms.   Worse still, the medication I’m on makes me furious and paranoid. Not to mention...
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Ice Cream Knuckles

Kevin Bigley
“I’m begging you to give me permission to fire him.” Gabe’s plea was more pathetic than intended, his meek tone reverberating within his doughy jaw. “Plea...
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The Deep End

Wilson Koewing
The first time Aly said she couldn’t be killed, I thought nothing of it. She was filing her nails on the edge of the bed. I was sleeping over. Her hair smell...
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GROTESQUE

Lee Matthew Goldberg
I MISSED THE CONNECTION TO SOME NOWHERE CITY ON MY ROUTE AND WOUND UP STRANDED IN ONE EVEN LESS APPEALING. Christmas season brought booked flights and little sy...
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Sound Chasers

Teddy Burnette
There are sounds that come from trees that he cannot explain or identify. He understands the sounds are emanating from bugs or birds, but with no visible origin...
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Night Drive

Jon Nix
The screaming stopped the instant Sam opened her eyes. She’d been having nightmares about mass shootings again. They’d mostly gone away during the pandemic. Now...
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MAN AND HIS KIN

John Chrostek
No one at Sunny Wonders Amusement Park was more downtrodden about owner Barry Victor’s death than the twenty-seven mannequins of his likeness that stood like se...
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Debted

Crow Jonah Norlander
He could afford the minimum payment on his credit card bill, but the statement said if he paid the minimum it’d take him 73 years to pay off and the total amoun...
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Faking Senses

Mirvat Manal
You’re faking your way to a false sense of happiness, that’s what I told her on the eve of her wedding day.  I also said that she didn’t have to do it, and that...
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Pink Clouds

Kris Hartrum
I grabbed some beers and chips from 711 and met Akari outside the building. The love hotel Pink Clouds was pink with powder-blue clouds. She looked serious and ...
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Being a zombie

Florence Heap
When I wake up I want to eat people and that’s literally all I want. I used to want so many different things, so it’s pretty nice to just have the one want now....
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