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Admissible

Mingpei Li
It was the same feeling. What you would hear described as bone-tingling, and what I had, myself, described the same way. A heavy coldness at the point where ...
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Shrekathon

James Callan
Chantal knew that when Astral Projections, her local cinema, decided to showcase a Shrek event, an overnight, back to back to back to back showing of Shrek, Shr...
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Carillon

Erin Lyndal Martin
Stief accepted the gig for us to play a Halloween show in Centralia. We told him to back out, that we’d land us a spot at Urban Bloodbath and we wouldn’t have t...
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Waste Not

Chelsea Stickle
Every night we get drunk on a dead woman’s wine. We run eucalyptus bubblebaths to sooth our over-worked bodies and lather ourselves in her lotions and creams. W...
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The Cabinet

Anthony Verdi
“Why come out here for peace if everything is still so goddamn loud?” I ask the empty room. Brushes and scratches fill the cabin's air, the caked artificial ...
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Prehensile

Thomas Mixon
Before Waze, before GPS, before MapQuest, there were road atlases, and before forgotten drinks in the trunk of a grandfathered vehicle – exempt from emissions t...
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So Stay.

Stéfanie F.S.
Now you inhale her because you once read that cyanide smells of sweet almonds. In her bed, after finding each other in a bar you only entered because of its boo...
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The Boombox

E. Nolan
His father announced to the table that he brought the boombox. "No, Dad," said Gerry. “If you do . . .” Gerry was my best friend, and we were at the rehea...
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Soda Drinkers

Peter Smith
Everybody loves Soda, the new soda from Food Corp. We all drink it all the time. People say it has a secret ingredient that turns estrogen into tumors. I don’t ...
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Daddy Long Legs

Andrea Harper
Hedy lives in the city now. I try not to think of her too much, tossing her long braids in class, or drinking at a bar in Hell’s Kitchen, a young, flabby Wall S...
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Mira

Sona Verdi
She brought me Mai Tais at my brother’s private resort in Mexico. They tasted like medicine - thick syrup on the bottom and pure liqueur on top - but I still do...
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THE GIANTS

Devan Murphy
I lived in a village in the woods where looking up was forbidden. It was forbidden because it was dangerous. If you looked up into the sky you would be sucked a...
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Breakup Sketch

Ross McMeekin
Attorney Meredith Browning’s husband of five years, Drew Baxter, an emerging star in stand-up and sketch comedy, now on the second season of the eponymous sitco...
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Pastoralia

Spencer K.M. Brown
They were hitting. The two boys along the streambank, angry as Cain and Abel and oblivious of paradise vanishing, and just by the water’s edge, they were hittin...
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The Imposter

Amy DeBellis
The first time I see the robot inside my husband, I think I must be imagining it. The alarm fractures my dreams, propels me into a hot cave of blankets, a ha...
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