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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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On Face Tattoos

Willy Palomo
I told him I’m not a fan of face tattoos. I usually avoid talking usually during tattoo sessions for this goddamn reason. Sometimes I talk too much when I am hi...
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Lies

Jane Snyder
When my children were born I worked in the prison. Wasn’t I scared, people asked, being pregnant there? No, I’d tell them. It’s fine. The officers run a tight s...
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THE WORLD BLEEDS

Atlas Lee
Jess Curtis stooped at the window and stared at the dark. Wind rustled. Foliage shook. Valerie Finn and Noah Thacker, eating pizza straight from the box, sat on...
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Two-Party System

Mark Abdon
Coyote’s scat smells of stolen meat. With no thought to the impacts on the ecology, he’s taken to filling in prairie dog holes – my prairie dog holes – with dir...
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Bad Spelling

Nichole Lightner
When the bus stops in front of our house, I walk off slow because I am afraid that Bertie’s body won’t still be in the bathtub. Mother Julia made me go to schoo...
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Ghost Girl

Lori D’Angelo
Sam hadn’t always been a ghost. Of course, she hadn’t. Like the rest of us, she’d once been fully real. But then, like Marty McFly’s sister in Back to the Futur...
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Reddit on a Stick

Eric Farrell
There was a rumor that the old Hot Dog on a Stick was closing the weekend before Labor Day. Picture this, a young Vito  – that’s me, with older bro Nico, Mom an...
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Pink Chewing Gum

R.C. Herberg
My 25 milligram edible gummy is just starting to hit when Jamie tells me he doesn’t want a relationship. He says he’s going to Chicago soon, on account of his a...
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Kiss from a Whale

Joshua Vigil
Finally, some whalers found me. Bobbing on a lone plank, stranded at sea. The large one who hauled me up smelled of fish and vinegar and when my forehead slippe...
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