The Cloud Is (after Aeneid IV)

Josh BoardmanJanuary 11, 2017

A place out west. Google buys the countryside. Here’s how it must have happened: excavators rode at full night with bronze shovels to dig the foundation, strew ...

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An Essay on Detachment

Reggie MillsJanuary 5, 2017

I. Plasticity —So you’re saying you do think that’s how it should be. Is that what you’re saying? —No yeah yeah yeah, that is what I’m saying. Well I mean...

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Hypnotized with Motion

Jane-Rebecca CannarellaDecember 13, 2016

I didn’t suck on any honeysuckle this year. And am reminded of this loss while looking at unremarkable green bushes with clusters of golden-y flowers that frame...

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Changing into a Comfortable Sweater to Improve Sleep

Nick AltiDecember 8, 2016

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The Interview

Samuel SmithNovember 24, 2016

He readjusted his tie for the third time in as many minutes and shrugged the shoulders of a suit that formed a near-perfect square on his lanky frame. Attemptin...

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Trivial Pickles

Jacob SchroederNovember 18, 2016

The builders were eye-level with swarming news helicopters. Frank’s eyes though probed a towering triple cheeseburger cradled in his thick, calloused fingers. H...

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d/rift

Sean BurnNovember 16, 2016

stranged house, long-time friend & handfuls seed out pillboxings - wildflowers compost- downing, spore to rugs, pips under floorboardings, husks ins...

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3am Thought Catalogue of the Unassuredly Perturbed

Spencer FolkinsNovember 9, 2016

Right now I'm surviving off my desperate urge to burn every doorway I've ever walked through. Ever since the echo of all the words I never spoke had an affair w...

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One, Two

Elise KahnOctober 27, 2016

One   I could one day see myself drinking an entire bottle of champagne while riding my bike in the middle of nowhere.     Two ...

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Morningtown

Melissa GoodeOctober 26, 2016

They probably looked homeless under this blanket, on this train, catching it for shelter rather than to reach a destination. His head was heavy against her shou...

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Saving Black Cats at Halloween

S. KayOctober 19, 2016

I found out that a gang of superstitious teens plotted to kill my black cats at Halloween, and had to do something to protect them. I bathed my dark kittehs,...

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Being 18 is like

Kayti LahsaiezadehOctober 5, 2016

Being 18 is like having a cavity you can’t seem to stop tonguing. You go over everything endlessly: the fumbling grit of mistakes, your heart’s little stutte...

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Child On Top of a Glass House

Allen JonesSeptember 22, 2016

Somehow this kid gets into your house and rather than steal all your stuff in one shot he is running some kind of psychological project and follows you everywhe...

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10 Adages for the Millennial

Dylan TaylorSeptember 17, 2016

  Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you give him mercury poisoning. A bird in the hand is cheaper than two in Bus...

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Origin Story

Jacob SheltonSeptember 14, 2016

When Alex and I started dating I didn’t tell him about how my first boyfriend, Eliot, rescued me from a laboratory, or how he helped me open a portal to another...

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Shadowboxer

J. BradleySeptember 8, 2016

The first time I took a swing at the inflatable swan, I landed face first against one of the corners of my living room table. My mouth was too full of blood to ...

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The Man Who Was Not That Into Technology

Bart VanSeptember 7, 2016

  Mark’s wife left him for her smartphone. That didn’t come as a surprise. One night they were having sex and she was updating her Facebook status. Her ...

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Birds of America

Jack C. BuckAugust 31, 2016

The mountains are shrinking and the birds of America are just too sad about it to wait around and watch it all happen, so they gotta go. It’s truly a sight to s...

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When I was young I used to sing at the ocean.

Nicholas RysAugust 25, 2016

I had only ever been in the Atlantic. It was warm and the waves weren’t much taller than me. I had been knocked around in them but also rode on top of them; s...

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INVITED

Rebecca HanniganAugust 24, 2016

You invited me over, and you said hi and gave me a side hug when I walked in the door with a six pack of IPAs and a smile and some regrets, and then you left me...

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Office, Itemized

James R. GapinskiAugust 17, 2016

Seventeen file folders. Contents include twenty-eight memos, three blank sheets of paper, one compact disc titled “Sounds of the Ocean,” and six Post-its® featu...

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i hope god is a fan of stylization

Ally WhartonAugust 10, 2016

it is 10:46 and i am eating cheese that expired yesterday in my room thinking about my friend that says he wants to be a chef but does not actually want to be a...

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Our Nouns

Colin ThronessAugust 3, 2016

Me. You. There at the park. That night. After the show. The mountain above us. The moon on a string overhead. Drunken lullabies from a few nearby Latinos. Our f...

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Girlsong

Mary SellersJuly 27, 2016

The afternoon light unspools itself as I watch her paint. She’s considering the purple and blue watercolors for the canvas that’s already turned bruise. She has...

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And a Smile

Lucian CarterJuly 26, 2016

The can said “Share a Coke with your Dad.”   My Dad died in 1998.   At first, I was offended by the can. The ill-conceived idea everyone had a fat...

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Indigo Prose

Tanya BreshearsJuly 21, 2016

She looks up from her pen and paper, and when her gaze meets mine she asks, “is this prose too purple?” Words trip over her tongue, but I couldn’t rightly tell ...

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Response Upon Being Asked by Amazon via Email: Kate, How Many Stars Would You Give Pretty Woman this Time?

Kate JayroeJuly 12, 2016

Hi Amazon,   I would give Pretty Woman 500 stars, if this were possible. This masterpiece of a film rescues me right back. It really packs a punch from t...

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Revelations of a Half Man

Spencer FolkinsJuly 5, 2016

I sit in the shade of a beard tree until the sun inevitably dries itself up. Of course our eyes quickly evolve to produce their own light, though light was neve...

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Facebook Algorithm of Death

S. KayJune 23, 2016

Celery, carrot sticks, pickles. Shocked, she read about a friend's death on Facebook. Diagnosed with cancer two weeks earlier, it was a swift, awful demise. ...

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Brownie Monster Mix

Matt AlexanderJune 16, 2016

I knew you wanted a traditional brownie, so I began with flour, a pretty standard ingredient as far as baked goods go. When mixed with water, flour coagulates ...

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