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“Hares to Hounds” by Marco Etheridge

Posted on November 21, 2022

The boy feigns sleep, but he is ready to spring. Two children stalk his bed, dark-light-girl-boy, clad in spring-green and ochre, barefoot both. The boy watches from under hooded eyelids, […]

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“On Visiting My Dear Friend” by Martina Reisz Newberry

Posted on October 10, 2022

You and I will read our ways into the eternal whatever—questioning, wondering,  wandering under skies grown gray with concern or maybe apathy. We’ll play outside  until the streetlights come on like small meteors in […]

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“Fireworks” by T.K. Howell

Posted on July 4, 2022

Vincent closed his laptop and stared at the wall. The afterglow of an Excel spreadsheet burned across his retina. He waited for it to fade away to black and realised […]

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“Plastic Hearts” by Chella Courington

Posted on April 15, 2022

At fifteen Anne bought her first action figure—Wonder Woman. When she saw her on television in her blue starry shorts, legs rising out of red boots, steel cuffs, and gold […]

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“Hoops” by Stephen Kingsnorth

Posted on April 1, 2022

In vest, short shorts, quick reflex points, our up and over, chain-link fence, we traded jokes, paraded skills, especially under watch of girls, as learnt to make a better pass, […]

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“Abracadabra” by Christina Marable

Posted on January 24, 2022

The man I loved as my grandfather was a tall, strong, broad-shouldered man who carried a fake ear in his back pocket. With his indigo skin and smile brighter than […]

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“Maybe Next Time, Pat” by Mike McLaughlin

Posted on December 13, 2021

The man’s souvenirs were in a box somewhere. He had kept it handy for a few years then put it away. In a desk, then in the basement. Maybe up […]

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“Red Sun Red Moon” by Dan Yokum

Posted on November 19, 2021

Pauli stood at the railing on the back deck and flicked glances at the giant red sun fall slowly to the ground. The surrounding sky was a uniform hazy gray […]

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“Remember Miss Dorothy” by Christopher Matthew Thomas

Posted on November 15, 2021

“Is that Dorothy?” Elaine asked as we turned up the driveway. An old woman stood next to the mailbox. Her white legs with blue veins protruded out from a trench […]

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“The Living Room Express” by Jared Cappel

Posted on November 5, 2021

You tell me I’m a bird. Calloused hands pinch into my ribs and lift me overhead. In your eyes, I’m soaring through the clouds like an eagle. I brace against […]

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The Metaworker Podcast – Meditations on Water by Stella Meadows

Posted on July 28, 2021

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, Elena, and Melissa talk to Stella Meadows about her brilliant nonfiction (as well as what makes brilliant nonfiction in general), identity, introspection, LGBT+ representation in art, […]

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“Water Towers” by John L. Stanizzi

Posted on July 26, 2021

You’ve seen water towers, right? Those huge, tall jugs of water along the roadside. They’re usually a mess—washed out paint and rust, covered by graffiti, erected on the edge of […]

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“Red Summer” by Chariklia Martalas

Posted on January 1, 2021

It was the days where the night would not come, for the sun  held the sky hostage just by a look. It was the tyrannical glare  of a red summer […]

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“Field Trip” by John Grey

Posted on November 9, 2020

You wake up on the fourth floor to the garbled coo of some window-shopping pigeons, dress quickly, pick at breakfast, clamber down the dark stairwell with ears closed.  Today, no […]

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“The Magi” by Cameron Morse

Posted on October 19, 2020

Wisteria drapes green  bean-knuckled  fingers over my forehead,  the anointing oil of rain  dripping. Robin  poised upon the weathered,  mossy timber spine  of the swing set. I turn over  in […]

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“Rural Grown” by James Croal Jackson

Posted on September 25, 2020

I always mowed the wild green hair of lawn, eyes of corn stalking me from across the street. Steering Dad’s tractor in the shapeof a nose ring in my middle of nowhere, how […]

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“The Red Worm” by Isaac Aday

Posted on May 11, 2020

Sam Karrington’s size-six loafers kicked back and forth atop the wooden bench under the train stop awning. The train would be here soon, he thought—no need to get too comfortable.  […]

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“Presence” by Matt Dennison

Posted on October 28, 2019

The summer after my first year of college the KKK had a presence on Main Street in my hometown for a few hours.  Don’t know what they wanted—just walking up […]

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“Bodily” by Gale Acuff

Posted on May 13, 2019

I don’t care if I’m dead as long as I’m still alive, in Heaven I mean though not Hell, I might be dead but I’ll still be lively, just somewhere […]

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“Modern Sunsets” by M. A. Istvan Jr.

Posted on July 9, 2018

daytime gutter vomit scared to change your way from one that has been making you money color-segregated schools for the blind the increasing pressure to pass— indeed, identify—as one of […]

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“A Passage” by Irsa Ruçi

Posted on September 12, 2016

This one’s a very special post. We’re presenting to you the work of the highly accomplished Albanian Poet Irsa Ruçi, both translated, and in its original language.   Irsa Ruçi […]

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“On Writing” by Marina Shugrue

Posted on February 15, 2016

The reason I write is a simple one: I’ve always done it, and I can’t imagine living my life without writing. When I think about writing, I cannot honestly say […]

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“A Question Considered in a Pedal Car” by Ellen Webre

Posted on January 11, 2016

How am I fitting in this right now? It’s been years, centuries since I was small enough to terrorize villages and miniature pedestrians in this mighty blue vehicle. It has […]

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