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“Swamy” by Ranjit Kulkarni

June 24, 2022July 10, 20220

I sometimes wonder if …

“A Fair Deal” by Jon Kemsley

June 20, 2022July 29, 20241

Featuring original art by …

“That Damn Selfie” by Laurel Osterkamp

June 13, 2022June 12, 20221

If only Joyce hadn’t …

“The Burial Begins Slow” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

May 23, 2022May 22, 20221

The burial begins slow, …

“The Arc” by Nath Oddson

May 9, 2022May 10, 20221

From Atlanta to New …

“Close to the Fire” by Bill Kitcher

April 18, 2022March 23, 20240

Jerry backed the ’68 …

“Plastic Hearts” by Chella Courington

April 15, 2022April 10, 20220

At fifteen Anne bought …

“Mortuary Rites of the Blattidae” by Patrick M Hare

April 8, 2022March 23, 20240

The first cockroach appeared …

“Rare” by Joanne Howard

March 28, 2022March 20, 20230

Two a.m., well into …

“Pandemic Yoga” by Judith Beth Cohen

March 25, 2022May 16, 20250

At the Senior Center, …

“Indistinguishable” by Kenton K. Yee

March 14, 2022March 23, 20240

When I was in …

“Eyelash Extensions” by Clive Aaron Gill

March 11, 2022March 20, 20230

Brittani, the unmarried maid …

“Scrutiny” by Tim Frank

February 14, 2022March 15, 20220

I played with the …

“In the Willow Garden” by Isabel O’Hara Walsh

February 7, 2022February 13, 20220

Down in the willow …

“In the Kingdom of Songora” by Linda McMullen

January 31, 2022January 30, 20220

James was a senior …

“Abracadabra” by Christina Marable

January 24, 2022March 15, 20220

The man I loved …

Microfiction by Megha Nayar

January 10, 2022January 15, 20220

Grievances David calls as …

“In Between” by Kelly Claytor

December 24, 2021March 23, 20242

Are you dead, Maria? …

“Maybe Next Time, Pat” by Mike McLaughlin

December 13, 2021December 16, 20210

The man’s souvenirs were …

“The Sky Traveler” by Dan Yokum

December 6, 2021March 23, 20240

When I remember to …

“Damp Streets in a Dry Town” by Timothy Resau

November 26, 2021November 21, 20211

Countless streets going past, …

“Red Sun Red Moon” by Dan Yokum

November 19, 2021November 14, 20210

Pauli stood at the …

“Remember Miss Dorothy” by Christopher Matthew Thomas

November 15, 2021November 14, 20211

“Is that Dorothy?” Elaine …

“The Living Room Express” by Jared Cappel

November 5, 2021November 4, 20210

You tell me I’m …

“One Learns Ruthlessly” by Lydia Storm

October 25, 2021October 24, 20210

“And I learned, gentlemen. …

“Coffee with David Lynch” by Thomas Morgan

October 15, 2021February 23, 20220

“Say I had the …

“A Vacation” by Matthew Brinkley

September 24, 2021September 22, 20210

While his children bickered …

“Departure” by Richard Helmling

August 13, 2021August 8, 20211

On the first day, …

“Wildflowers” by Matt McGuirk

August 6, 2021July 25, 20210

People say suburbs are …

“African Stamps” by Brecht De Poortere

July 23, 2021July 18, 20211

In my first memory …

“Boy, Deer, Chair” by Sam Asher

July 9, 2021March 23, 20241

There’s a cloud in …

“A Future Leviathan’s Prodigious Sister” by Mina Rozario

June 28, 2021June 30, 20211

They called me incandescent. …

“Rangoli Man” by Mina Rozario

June 11, 2021March 23, 20241

Maya’s entire town had …

“Cardinal Sin” by Jennifer Fox

April 30, 2021June 30, 20210

Julie stared at the …

“The Donkey Saint” by Carl Fuerst

April 16, 2021June 30, 20210

When Emil was in …

“A Wounded Sky” by Andrew Johnston

March 29, 2021March 23, 20240

The sky’s been running …

“Tchotchkes” by Don Noel

March 26, 2021June 30, 20211

“Who’s Rick?” Alicia holds …

“We Built a Fine Madness House” by Lorna D. Keach

March 19, 2021March 23, 20240

Before their house was …

“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts

March 15, 2021June 30, 20210

She’s even made the …

“Nightlife Spots in Little Rock That No One Knows About” by Jeff Harvey

March 12, 2021August 12, 20220

Little Rock is the …

“A Very Full Closet” by Anonymous

March 8, 2021November 3, 20210

Thijs walks to the …

“Unleashed” by Catherine Zickgraf

February 22, 2021February 22, 20210

I clutch Dad’s oak …

“Through Other Eyes” by Marco Etheridge

February 12, 2021February 12, 20211

You are perched on …

“Transformations” by David Henson

February 5, 2021March 23, 20241

Mom’s breathing was shallow, …

“A Steppe Doctor” by Sergei Linkov

February 1, 2021February 1, 20210

The doctor’s fingertips have …

“Minotaurs” by Lane Talbot

January 25, 2021April 19, 20221

Red police lights revolved …

“Little Gem Magnolia” by Paul Rabinowitz

January 15, 2021June 28, 20221

I In an old …

“Bamboo” by Mary Donaldson-Evans

January 4, 2021January 3, 20210

Privacy. Who doesn’t want …

“Gone” by BH James

December 4, 2020March 22, 20240

Bob Sanders awoke one …

“Other Wars” by Greg Farnum

November 23, 2020November 22, 20200

1 It was a …

“Take it Off” by Evan Rodenhausen

November 20, 2020March 23, 20240

It’s odd. I’ve never …

“The Dog in You” by Omar Hussain

October 26, 2020February 13, 20223

My self-destruct button pops …

“The Dinner Party” by Alexa Hailey

October 12, 2020March 23, 20241

We arrived right on …

“Carry Tiger to Mountain” by Morton Milder

October 9, 20200

In the Third Year …

“On Perfumed Wings it Ascended” by Andrew Johnston

September 21, 2020January 10, 20210

When the dragon first …

“Nigh” by Scott Mitchel May

September 14, 2020January 10, 20210

Harvey Olsen never had …

“1984” by DC Diamondopolous

August 28, 2020September 4, 20202

James, as the doctors …

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” by Jie Wang

August 24, 2020January 10, 20211

We are all doomed …

“A Bride” by Michael Howard

August 14, 2020August 24, 20200

It was official: Angie Lash and Marco Di Luca, twenty-one years her senior, were wed.

“When My Ear Fell Off” by Stratos Moustakas & Dora Mezei

August 7, 2020March 15, 20221

When my ear fell …

“As We Know It” by Marco Etheridge

July 31, 2020August 29, 20201

You pause in the …

“The Crack Up” by Steve Carr

July 17, 2020September 23, 20200

Morning, a hot wind …

“The Road to Gold Ridge” by Jennifer Swallow

July 13, 2020August 29, 20200

The photos on the …

“The Red Worm” by Isaac Aday

May 11, 2020May 18, 20200

Sam Karrington’s size-six loafers …

“Cattail Confessions” by Hannah Melin

April 20, 2020January 10, 2021

I’ve fallen in love …

“Clouds” by Adam Kelly Morton

March 29, 2020August 29, 20200

Honey’s Pub is loud …

“Tree Song” by Melissa Reynolds

March 23, 2020March 15, 20221

I have stood for …

“Naked Cake” by Scott Mitchel May

March 16, 2020August 29, 20200

There is something sad …

“Spinning the Sensualist” by Michael Grotsky

March 2, 2020August 29, 20200

One lost Saturday night, …

“Barrow” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

February 24, 2020January 10, 20210

The darkness should be …

“Taco Dreams” by William Torphy

February 17, 2020February 24, 20200

Peg had made good …

“Nightchild” by Paul Negri

January 27, 2020January 10, 20210

She shone bright in …

“So Dark, Up Above” by Emily Ruth Taylor

December 23, 2019March 23, 20240

Sure, no one ever …

“Arizona Rattlesnakes” by E.G. Farrelly

November 25, 2019December 16, 20190

“How d’ya s’ppose we …

“Off the Deep End” by Richard Risemberg

August 19, 2019September 23, 20200

It was the kind …

“Romulus” by Charles Rafferty

August 5, 2019January 10, 20210

It wasn’t like that. …

“The Night the Billado Block Burned Down” by Elizabeth Gauffreau

July 29, 2019September 1, 20202

Then the Billado Block …

“South of the Nipple” by Paul Negri

July 15, 2019September 11, 20221

It was just beneath …

“Stripped” by James la Vigne

July 8, 2019September 4, 20200

Having little to his …

“I guess I never told you about Texas” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

June 17, 2019January 10, 20210

I guess I never …

“One Day” by Rebekah Ricksecker

May 20, 2019February 23, 20220

6:47 AM The darkness …

“The cops have Julia” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

May 6, 2019January 10, 20210

I knew already, struck …

“On Light on Shadow” by L.L. Madrid

February 10, 2019September 4, 20200

The air is thick …

The Missing Brutal Honesty in the Final Walk-Through with the Soon-To-Be-Ex-Tenant by Erika Murdey

January 21, 2019February 23, 20201

Entry Door Yes …

On Watermelon Street by John Short

December 24, 2018September 3, 20200

It was the upper …

“45th Parallel” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

November 26, 2018January 10, 20212

We will not subside, …

“Ash Lee” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

October 29, 2018February 13, 20221

Come with me, it …

“Buddy” by Benjamin Austin

October 22, 2018September 23, 20201

“Pickup for Angelo.” He …

“Ice Cream or Moxie” by Kristy Gherlone

August 12, 2018August 29, 20200

In the heat of …

“Nothingness” by Anne Strand

June 18, 2018January 10, 20211

…

“Ship Inside a Bottle” by Charles Rafferty

May 14, 2018January 15, 20220

Her new …

Excerpt From “We Three Kings” by D.M. Rice

April 23, 2018December 10, 20240

D.M. Rice is a non-binary writer …

“The Hitchhiker” by Michael T. Smith

April 16, 2018September 23, 20200

It was late enough …

“Icing” by Melissa Bobe

February 12, 2018January 10, 20212

She’d had a cupcake …

“Coming Home” by Ray Cicetti

October 23, 2017March 15, 20220

Once there was a …

“The Confession of the Watcher at the Bell” by K.A. Liedel

September 25, 2017January 10, 20210

The peace inside the …

“This is What We Do Now” by Becky Shirley

September 18, 2017March 15, 20220

You come home, half …

“A Fairy Tale About War” by Matthew McAyeal

September 11, 2017February 23, 20220

Once upon a time, …

“Jigsaw” by Amber West

September 4, 2017March 15, 20220

I was born a …

“Truth Conditions” by Natalie Einselen

August 14, 2017May 16, 20250

Tsuki Amai’s wristwatch emitted …