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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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Support Group

Andrea Taylor
I settle into my chair, a kid’s school desk, in the Baptist church classroom. I barely fit. Around me, others take their seats as well. I know most of these peo...
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Imaginary Summer

Mike Murphy
It was 9am when Officer Onion strolled up Union Street in his new sweat-wicking shorts. They showed off his big, pasty calves. By the way he moved across the we...
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Determine

Patch McCurry
Prologue   In the fraught tides of space the door hinges of one particular door rotate endlessly without cause. In one smooth, continuous motion they b...
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Dog Person

JH Tomen
I’m so sick of these goddam dogs. To clarify — since 90% of my readers are on Earth — by dogs, I mean those creatures we found in the moon void, snarbls. Not th...
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The Last Outpost

Marcus Field
Edwin knew the risk. The penalty. Two Earth-Years ago, and of course that was still how they counted time, a crew member was ejected from the station for the ve...
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Lessons

Kevin Sterne
My stepdad would throw knives at me. It was a like a reflexes thing, catching a fly with chopsticks. Character building, a boy’s first funeral. I learned to wri...
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Blueberries

Chris Scott
I’m upstairs folding laundry in our bedroom when Colin calls out from downstairs. “Hey, I think you cheated on me!” I drop his green v-neck mid-fold onto our...
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Follow the Snails

Kyle Weik
There’s a legion of snails migrating at breakneck speed across state lines. Footage shows the critters rafting on vegetation down the Colorado River, travelling...
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This Didn’t Happen

Josh Rank
Have you ever seen someone commit a crime? Maybe you saw a kid slip a candy bar in his pocket at the gas station. Something like that. Unless you start shouting...
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Names Without Faces

Tessa Case
Margaret’s cataract occludes her left eye, and she lets me stay in her mother-in-law suite, though I suspect there never was a mother-in-law. On the walls, one ...
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Sunflower

X.C. Atkins
The first thing Arthur saw when he woke up was the ceiling fan whirling in the faint blue light, third speed. Slow speed. Slow blinks. For a moment, he thought ...
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Sex & Food

Jessika Bouvier
She was careful, so for a while no one noticed. There was always someone sloppier, a bartender whose eyes went gluey mid-shift, a server with shrimp confit knot...
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ERASE

Lee Matthew Goldberg
The woods behind the Pike’s house, labyrinthine and majestic, but dark and secluded, held a fascination for Alan and Daniel. After school, they made it their ki...
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