Ocean Culture Mocha

S. KayApril 12, 2017

I get a mocha to go, taking it to a Pacific park, thinking about food and art as I pass a fish taco stand's orca mural and a t-shirt shop.   Flowers ...

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Brooke Davis knows her worth and you should too

Madeline AnthesMarch 22, 2017

So listen up. If we’re going to date I need you to understand Brooke Davis. Because she is me and I am her and if you don’t support her you don’t support me. ...

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The Belief Space

Soren JamesMarch 21, 2017

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dreamstop and dream journey

Logan EllisMarch 14, 2017

dreamstop At the four way stop of your dream, a version of you and a long time no see friend are chatting across cars, heads spilling like jugs of formaldehy...

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Carnivore Morning Breath

Kathryn McMahonMarch 8, 2017

  The dinosaurs are shy and fairly small. My T-rex waits in the foyer for the mail as the Stegosaurus munches aloe vera in the kitchen. In the garage, t...

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Special Cargo

S. KayMarch 1, 2017

Soft grey dusk slowly fades into the dark depths of the ocean cove. A lone motorboat speeds across choppy water.   The Canadian boat pulls up to a pr...

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A Very Small Cockroach Negotiates With God

Dylan Jones HintonFebruary 21, 2017

Look, it’s not that I’m not grateful to be here, I am, I get it, I am. It’s just that I don’t think I’m a good fit. Oh, yeah, ha ha, I see how that’s funny, I’m...

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Infested

Kelsey DeanFebruary 14, 2017

The butterflies are becoming a problem. At this point they’ve reproduced several times, and my organs are littered with dead cocoon matter. I’m feeling quite cl...

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Bank Vault Dinner Party

Austin Sanchez-MoranFebruary 9, 2017

I walk into an underground bank vault where my parents have planned a dinner party. There is a long oak table with 3 chairs on both of the long sides of the tab...

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BLUE RING

Therese CalegariJanuary 26, 2017

A circle moment as big as me. I step in and out. Each undulation hula hoop round, a frisk, a foot, a wiggling toe. Then breakfast, a thimble's eye of dough to m...

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New Hear Style

Grant PriceJanuary 24, 2017

—Look at this. —What? —This advert. ‘Stylish, compact hearing aid remote control.’ —So? — Don’t you see? “Let me have a go on your stylish remote co...

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The Lego Hotel for Idle Thought

Caleb PainterJanuary 19, 2017

I never once thought of my mind as a place where thoughts would come and go until the day I needed to illuminate my “No-Vacancy” sign. I decided to build an exp...

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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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