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Reflections

Sadee Bee
Their dining room felt a thousand yards long. His ice-blue eyes bored into her like needles pricking her delicate skin. Words filled the air, his lips even move...
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We Worry, Inc

Jan Hassmann
Wading through the jungle of mental health ads, you almost feel bullied into peer depression. And what's wrong with bottling things up? Works for the whole fami...
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David Ullmann
Kyle wants to have a baby with Abby. They are not married and never dated. But, he loves kids and can’t go five minutes at a family gathering without swaddling ...
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Chatterbox

Michael Duffy
I was just outside of Pinewood Cove, ten miles from the anomaly, but I don’t quite remember driving, parking, or sitting at the counter of Tom's Diner. Not unco...
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Man-monster

Courtney Causey
Whenever I get together to have lunch with my sister Pris, she’ll bring up my husband Dicky, me, Dicky’s ghosts. Then she’ll bring up daddy, because daddy had g...
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The Electric Cousin

Andy Junk
“Damn you, my Grandmas. Damn you, my Grandpas.” Kevin spoke these words under his breath, softly and without emotion. He had said them countless times: first as...
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baby pink

Grace Raidan
In the bathtub, I want to float like a witch, but instead I sink like a girl. The water was piping hot just moments ago, steam rising, but now it is frigid and ...
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1-800-PSYCHIC

Neva Cirkveni
Did you know there's a woman you can call?  She sits with three piles of cards in front of her, lets you pick one (but just one), and tells you not what tomo...
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The Diver

Cory Derringer
How dark the unknown depths of the soul, How strange the nameless author of the will. It doesn’t feel like you'd think. You're not a puppet on strings, a pass...
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Stay In Line

Sam Franzini
Eliza had a sneaky look on her face, like she’d done something bad. “I have something to tell you,” she said. We were in the teachers’ lounge while the kids wer...
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The Cry Room

Melinda Li
The lobby was everything the recruitment video promised: moss walls, bleached oak accents, air that smelled faintly of lavender. A woman with a fashionably over...
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Open Your Eyes

Ryan Norman
“It’s time to get away from all of this,” Erick says sternly to himself. Closing the door behind him, Erick walks barefoot across the hardwood floor toward his ...
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