College and Collage

Ivy GrimesMay 24, 2023

  College   That one Thanksgiving, we wanted to reuse our Halloween costumes, so you went as a Christiana Ricci and I went as Beverly D'Angelo. W...

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Making a U-turn in the middle of Route 17 in the middle of the night

Ashley BereschMay 21, 2023

Swerved to miss a rabbit and missed. Three-point turn, almost not enough shoulder and almost tipping the car. The highway empty except for a deer in the pine st...

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DEAD CERAMIC

Jamie Anthony LouisMay 15, 2023

A broken plate lies between us. I say, “It’s not my fault.” You say, “You should have put it away earlier.” I look at the shattered off-white ceramic piec...

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Danny Boy

James CallanMay 5, 2023

When my wife and I considered a name for our son, deliberating between the traditional, the lyrical, the new age unique, we ultimately decided on Finn one week ...

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Time Travel

Aiden Grace SmithApril 25, 2023

“What happened to the bottle opener?” I ask. “What happened to the murder hornets?” he counters.  My partner has a theory that 2020 is proof that time travel...

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The Worst Downhill Cheese Wheel Chaser in Town

Caleb BetheaApril 19, 2023

His theory. Just like time and space, sex appeal works as a building block in the universe. Athletes funnel this energy into prowess on the court, the field, do...

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After watching the finale of Daisy Jones & The 6 on Prime Video

David ColodneyApril 19, 2023

Last night’s mist drifts from my eyes as the Today show plays a clip of Daisy Jones & The 6 performing on SNL like a band called Daisy Jones & The 6 WOU...

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Suds N’ Duds

Kayleigh ShoenApril 10, 2023

Aaron likes to gamble, but casinos don’t appeal to me. I’ve spent too much time here, feeding bills into machines with handwritten “costumers only” signs. (My r...

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Winter Driving Dreaming by J. F. Gleeson

J. F. GleesonApril 3, 2023

We have gone on a drive because Grandmother has been drinking. The drinking this time meant that Mum said please can you tell us when you’ve been drinking becau...

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Succession

Sabrina HicksFebruary 26, 2023

We played hide-and-go-seek in each other’s homes: dinner parties, backyard barbecues, white elephant gift exchanges. We’d steal bits of towering deserts, macaro...

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Your Home

Tim FrankFebruary 23, 2023

Your mum makes me wade through the floorboards with a dustpan and brush like I’m paddling into the sea—she doesn’t even care that I’m asleep. No one in this hou...

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I Am A Trainwreck Actress’s Vagina

Emma BrankinFebruary 19, 2023

I am a trainwreck actress’s vagina and I just thought I’d say hello. You seemed keen to see me, the throb of your flash piercing me with its up-skirted glare. Y...

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An 80 Proof Love of Destruction and Other Co-Dependent Behavior

Margo GriffinJanuary 23, 2023

Beth and Malcolm broke up right after their tumble from the top of Beth's second-floor landing. Malcolm only remembered waking up at the bottom of her stairs, o...

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Unlikely Scenes at the End of the World

James CallanJanuary 17, 2023

As I stood in the path of Neptune’s wrath, stared into the wide, angry eyes of the end of the world, such unlikely things popped into my mind. Scenes from movie...

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How to Tell a Polish Joke

Annie BerkeJanuary 2, 2023

Over an uneventful family dinner, decide to tell your parents a blonde joke you heard at school.   “That one is as old as I am. But back then, it was...

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The way you wear the corpses in your hair

Caleb BetheaDecember 30, 2022

Hammocked in your curls. Little dead humans, embalmed with nothing but shampoo, linseed oil conditioner. Even their teeth are cleaned with scalp-curing properti...

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Human Trash

Angela LiuDecember 21, 2022

In my second year of graduate school, there was a couple that would sometimes have sex in the printing workshop after midnight. The man had bought a foldable fu...

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Carl Jung Would Love This If He Was Still Kicking

Bruce ReisnerDecember 19, 2022

1. One thing about here.  You can see for miles.   Civilization landed on the Appalachian hills like a bird dropping.  Like bird shit falling miles downward an...

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Manchester Gate Apartments

Monique QuintanaDecember 12, 2022

Tino lived in an old blue stucco apartment complex just off Blackstone Avenue, one of Fresno's most extended and busiest avenues. It was also next door to a fun...

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Christmas Cactus

Max Kruger-DullDecember 5, 2022

I do not find my Christmas Cactus beautiful. When my boyfriend and I bought this Christmas Cactus, its arms were stiff, cute, plastic-looking, window-worthy. Bu...

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Cost of Admission

Cheryl PappasNovember 25, 2022

The forest cleared to let the Ferris wheel in, let in the popcorn-chewers, the crushed, greasy striped hot dog trays, the guns in pockets, the new babies scream...

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The Guy Who Speaks Piano

Steve GergleyNovember 23, 2022

At the jazz club, me and Kyoko meet a guy who speaks piano. Instead of words, his mouth forms the sound of a Yamaha baby grand. Sitting at our circular table ne...

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Seeking Our Neighbor John at Lake Ridge Apartments

Noémi Scheiring-OláhOctober 26, 2022

Hey buddy, nice loafers. Listen. Do you know our neighbor, John? Battered-brown-Toyota-Camry John? V-neck-T-shirts John? Wouldn’t-pick-him-for-our-basketball...

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Short Shallow Breaths

Karen SchauberOctober 3, 2022

When the lights came back on the aircraft was in full nosedive. Walter had been thrown from his seat and hurled some three rows ahead. I couldn’t get rid of him...

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#AD-terlife

Will MusgroveSeptember 23, 2022

Becky and I got into a fight. Then I died. At least I think I’m dead. A minute or so ago, a sedan swerved onto the sidewalk, smashing into my hip. I heard a squ...

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Wheel of Fortune

Melissa Llanes BrownleeSeptember 5, 2022

Tutu took a bottle of fish sauce and the only green mango left and draped the curtain between us in the kitchenette and his cubby hole. My mother rolled her eye...

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The Duplication Process Reflected in a Broken TV

Nikki BauschSeptember 5, 2022

She awakes in a foreign land in a twin bed under its plaid gray duvet, surrounded by walls plastered with heavy metal posters. She’s far away from St. Louis. A ...

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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Will MusgroveAugust 9, 2022

Yesterday was high school summer vacation, green and empty of responsibility. Yesterday I pushed a grape Jolly Rancher from cheek to cheek. Yesterday I sorted m...

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ABOUT THOSE NAIL CLIPPINGS

Joshua VigilAugust 5, 2022

It was tradition for new guests to leave behind toenail clippings after check-in. This explained the mounds of yellowed shards that dotted the hotel counter. Th...

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Covenant

Glenn BertramJuly 18, 2022

We’re charting a new theology, Pat and I. We’re working out a pantheon of small objects. Household gods, strewn across our counters. Divinity in banality: this ...

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