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The Other People

Pascale Potvin
The screams upstairs were distinctly Ivory. “Ew- Dad! Kill it! Kill it!” she cried. “Where is it?” August returned, clunky sigh accompanying. “The bathroo...
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You Be Illin’

Richard Daub
With the money he'd made from his 23-house Newsday delivery route, Carl had purchased a TV, a VCR, a $400 Centurion Accordo Tour de France Limited Edition twelv...
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Between the Lines

Eric Lawson
After a myriad of meandering meanwhiles, the crux of modern civilization came sharply into focus: lines. More specifically, what lines are, what they can and ca...
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Beguilers

Mackenzie Singh
The specialist is coming to see me today. I’m told the first session will be a consultation. If I “cooperate” she can do for me what she did for a woman in Tall...
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Highlander

Alexandra Kessler
It’s only us out here. Going fast on the dark road. Clare always takes the back way. Her Shortcuts. She’s my Best Friend. Her fingers on the steering wheel, min...
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Coyote

Alexandrine Ogundimu
Saint never had a lot of luck, but then again, who does? Mall food court. She was asking this manager for a job, a man with an eyebrow ring and a University ...
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Day Job

Mila Jaroniec
I opened the closet. What would he like? Male professional, said the ad, seeking date with discreet, easy-going woman for fun, friendship, and more. The last on...
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earthwork

Michael Farfel
1.   The moon is a sort of carcass. Don’t you think? It was God or a lover of God. Now she’s just an empty yellow thing, she said. It's not exactly yello...
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Eleven

Mat Hooper
Despite being nine, you remember a lot about that day. You remember sinking into a beanbag, flipping through one of your favorite Magic Tree House books, get...
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Boys to Men

Shannon McLeod
The air was cold and misty when Garrett completed his first lap around Olsen Pond. Yesterday he walked four laps around the 1.2 mile trail, and today his goal w...
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Inertia

Elliot Harper
Inertia is defined as the tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. That sounds about right. To go even further, it’s the resistance of a psychical o...
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Turned Out

Janelle Bassett
She doesn’t need the gift of vision to predict the futures of people captured in forty year-old photographs. It’s even easier when the photos are sixty or seven...
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Repair Date

Ann Fowler
As Ally’s hair dripped, she swirled a wad of toilet paper over the bathroom mirror. Her plump face filled a wet circle—no new wrinkles this week, thank goodness...
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Demolition Day

Lindsay Crudele
This year, I decided I’m going to become a real bad bitch. I’m nobody’s punching bag. I’ll show them. My therapist told me that it’s ok to have boundaries, s...
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