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“Tangled” by Gary Carr

Posted on October 14, 2022

When I think about it, none of this would have happened if Roger weren’t such a slob.  After Roger left for the gym, I decided to vacuum the apartment and […]

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“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross

Posted on May 30, 2022

Rona piles rice from path to porch like snowdrifts sprinkled with crayon colored carrots, peas, corn– until the guardrail disappears under an ever-growing mountain  of cooked rice. I steal furtive […]

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“Indistinguishable” by Kenton K. Yee

Posted on March 14, 2022

When I was in eighth grade, Dad started feeling “neither here nor there.” The harder he tried to relax, the more violently he’d jitter. The only way he could stop […]

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“Suburban Complaint #1988—Skunked” by Peter Dabbene

Posted on February 18, 2022

It was late at night, and the dog was barking—that is, until she suddenly voiced a squeal that made it sound like she’d been stabbed through the paw. I emerged […]

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“Summit Negotiations” by Stephen Kingsnorth

Posted on December 3, 2021

At the cake bazaar,annual in the village hall –Mrs Baker’s acid voice –I stall to scan those sweetmeat plates. The granulated cog biscuits,as if surfaced breeze-swept snow,fawn-mellow, flat,centre-nippled, cherry-topped;the scarlet […]

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“Coffee with David Lynch” by Thomas Morgan

Posted on October 15, 2021

“Say I had the power to grant you one wish,” his wife said. “What would you wish for?” “Hmm…” her husband said. “Can it be anything?” “It can be anything […]

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The Metaworker Podcast – The Dinner Party by Alexa Hailey

Posted on July 25, 2021

Episode Description:  In this pilot episode, Editor-in-Chief Matthew Maichen and then-intern (now editor) Melissa Reynolds have a conversation about The Dinner Party by Alexa Hailey, in which they touch on […]

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“An Account of Our Precipice” by Jason McGlone

Posted on April 5, 2021

We three stare at each otherit’s Reservoir Dogs: BurgeoningDomestic Dispute Edition Our mouths trained guns,words chambered, Hello translates directly to Say something stupid, BrianAnother Hello says Let’s not do thisMy […]

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“Tchotchkes” by Don Noel

Posted on March 26, 2021

“Who’s Rick?” Alicia holds up a fist-sized pewter whale breaching gracefully from a block of varnished wood. Jerry looks up from where he is awkwardly packing a teapot into a […]

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“Neighbor” by Darrell Petska

Posted on March 22, 2021

on his roof checking shingles for fleasscouring the ground for alien invaders Hey Don! I say, but he’spolishing tools till his face smiles backdigging more holes to Chinaparing trees to […]

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

Posted on March 19, 2021

Before their house was built, Jan and Stan spent hours staring at the blueprints, hunting for a 90-degree angle. Their architect told them the construction would reject mundane angles and […]

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“The Dinner Party” by Alexa Hailey

Posted on October 12, 2020

We arrived right on time, although we had debated that. Isn’t fashionably late, well, fashionable? In the end, though, we were on time. Which was good, because she was out […]

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“Naked Cake” by Scott Mitchel May

Posted on March 16, 2020

There is something sad about an unfrosted and forgotten about sheet cake — the kind of sheet cake when if finished would be eaten at the office and in celebration […]

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“Say Goodbye to Hollywood” by Henry Crawford

Posted on March 9, 2020

[Shot] [in a single take] [with no lighting] [and no sound] [some believed] [The Black Movie] [would fail] [at the box office] [when it opened] [a confused] [audience] [sat in […]

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Excerpt from Hypervision Episode 1

Posted on November 18, 2016

Writing isn’t only for novelists or poets. Screenwriters are writers, too! Below is an excerpt from the script of the upcoming web-series called Hypervision, which is about four friends who embark […]

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Writer Interview: Steven Jay, Creator of Hypervision

Posted on November 18, 2016

Writing isn’t only for novelists or poets. Screenwriters are writers, too! Below is an interview with Steven Jay, the writer and creator of an upcoming web-series called Hypervision, which is […]

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“Tinder” by Tadeu Bijos

Posted on October 26, 2015

Last week in the park, a small, violent dog kept sniffing the ass of a much larger, more docile dog. The sniff was aggressive and strangely confident; it felt incomplete existing only […]

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