Eight Steps to Enlightenment

Greta HayerMay 11, 2021

step 1. separate the lights and darks, the things that clash, your mess from his mess.  you cannot clean his mess.  his stains have set deep into the cloth.  yo...

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The Bees

Grant Gerald MillerMay 3, 2021

  The neighbor was covered in bees. I knew which neighbor it was because he always wore dirty house slippers and jogging pants and I saw a sliver of the...

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like love but better

Annakeara StinsonApril 29, 2021

why desire smooch lips affection? be raked out lightening. dry grass painted yellow, Ames packing tubs, doldrums of late-day in a rural area, mildew taste of a ...

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Tara Stillions WhiteheadApril 22, 2021

The townhouse on Agua Hedionda is two miles from the payphone on PCH where Janae picks me up, but it’s too early for Bob to be awake and we are too sober to hea...

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Hexed

Brett PribbleApril 21, 2021

He inhaled flies. They glided off the sap in the floorboards, the ground meat seeping out of its plastic, his stacks of soiled overalls. Outside children sniffe...

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Anniversary

Natalie WartherApril 14, 2021

It was Sunday, we’d already done the chores, nothing was on TV, and sex was still off the table, so we switched bodies, just to see what it was like. I was i...

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I Tell My Wife That I Want To Go To Outer Space Before I Die

Tyrel KessingerApril 11, 2021

I tell my wife that I want to go to outer space before I die. “You’re crazy,” was all she said. Fair enough but then again she thinks everyone is crazy. &nbs...

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I Statistic. Now

Tyrel KessingerMarch 2, 2021

Hello! Nice to meet you! I’m a statistic! (Previously a human being!) But when you die you become a statistic so here we are. I had a job before I w...

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The Perfect Woman

Madeline CashNovember 23, 2020

Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, a year of house arrest, and two years of probation after being charged with conspiracy, obstruction of ju...

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Moon Work

Ryan NormanNovember 19, 2020

It’s the Dark Moon. I’ve been wandering these woods for hours, passing trees, each peak and valley in the bark a fingerprint, yet I circle them. Lost. Who did I...

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Death confetti

Zoë MeagerNovember 10, 2020

  Death actually just climbed into the cannon himself, so that was pretty profound and everything. Before he got in, he stood there for a moment admirin...

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Being Fictional and Eating Pizza

Tian YeungNovember 3, 2020

The day she found out she was fictional, she was eating a slice of pizza. No, it was not pepperoni or cheese. Those toppings are too common, too overrated. She ...

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mtg minutes

D.T. RobbinsOctober 28, 2020

EL SEGUNDO SECT OF THE SATANIC ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA (SAA) Date: 8/10/2020 Start time: 6:00pm Venue: Pasadena Hyatt Business Lobby   6:02pm – ...

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The Manhattan Project

Emma ShepardSeptember 24, 2020

The apartment stunk of microwaved meat and potatoes. My grandfather sat on his brown leather recliner, picking at the stuffing coming out of a hole in the leath...

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The Turquoise Tiger

Josh DaleSeptember 22, 2020

My partner left me because I told her turquoise jaguars weren’t real. And I realize I may have been mean, despite the realistic turquoise bust that was mounted ...

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Rock Wall

Wilson KoewingSeptember 18, 2020

On a trail near Wolf Creek, a shirtless jogger passed our group at 12,000 feet. A tattoo of Idaho was emblazoned on his right shoulder. Sweat trickled down his ...

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An Incident at The Vladi-Schwarz Sixty-Four Squares Championship

Kausik KskSeptember 17, 2020

Tabakovic’s gaze bores through Dashem’s head. The rapping of Dashem’s knuckles on the table intensifies. Would Dashem restore the lost glory to Vladivania? How ...

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The Name You Asked For

Ernesto ReyesSeptember 8, 2020

When you’re born, your Name will be waiting for you, standing by your father. You’ll quickly be able to recognize your Name, even if you don’t know how to spell...

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Three Blurbs

Zac SmithSeptember 7, 2020

1. Drunk and despairing, I plucked this book from a low-hanging branch. I bit into its tender flesh and let the inky juice drip down my chin. I stumbled back...

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NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY

John BanningSeptember 4, 2020

I was in the hotel room and had managed to create a wedge of space between the bed and the nightstand, about a metre wide, and I had bunched myself into this bo...

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That Wolf Motherfucker

D.T. RobbinsAugust 31, 2020

It pretty much started with him howling during orgasm on top of his girlfriend one night. After that, he grew a mustache. He’d never had a mustache. Thick red f...

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Building Normalcy with a Ring of Fascination Around It: An Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano

Gauraa ShekharAugust 27, 2020

Details accrue quietly in Tara Isabel Zambrano’s debut collection — in the click-clack of a neighbor’s stilettos, in yolk that clings to the fractured shell of ...

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Upon Not Being Diagnosed a Wizard as You’d Hoped

Renee AgatepAugust 27, 2020

So you’ve been questioned as to whether or not you possess magic power! Here are the diagnostic criteria for determining if you are, in fact, a wizard. Symp...

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Likes

Yash SeyedbagheriAugust 25, 2020

I milk likes by posting comments on YouTube. I regurgitate Tropic Thunder quotes. Bloviate about Rasputin. Make comments about friendship being like politics, r...

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The Credits Are Rolling, Aren’t They?

Daedalus FitzgeraldAugust 20, 2020

The worst part about killing yourself is the urge to die a death that’s yours- as if the method of your exit will affect the tone of your absence.   ...

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Friday Morning, 9:36 a.m.

Jennifer DickinsonAugust 18, 2020

After the tenth shot, Giant said we had to run. “Fuck no,” I said. This wasn’t what we’d practiced. I pictured Laura and Quinn and Danisha barricaded in Ms. ...

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Pizza Friday

Davon LoebAugust 14, 2020

Later they said this is where it started, when he became a bad kid; but really, he was just pissed his square pizza was cold and that it flopped between his han...

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You’re The Most Entertaining Person I’ve Ever Met

Torey AkersJuly 7, 2020

Rhea sits in a weathered Adirondack chair outside her trailer home in Novelty, Ohio, the only hotel-free location in the whole of Russell Township. The Titans a...

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Mechanisms of Defense

Nina Shevzov-ZebrunMay 27, 2020

  Altruism The rain is unexpected, so violent the sun chokes. A stranger gives away her umbrella.   Humor (warning: medical, probably not ...

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Hairy Monster

Ben UmayamMay 4, 2020

“You very handsome now.  You look very cool.   You look 26, not 62!”  Cheryl laughed her low, deep laugh.  If Cher had a Malaysian counterpart, she would sound ...

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