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Tag: coming of age

Microfiction by Jennifer Novotney

Posted on June 27, 2022

The Art Gallery I pop into the art gallery lined with textured paintings of the seaside. The artist greets me as she works wielding a palette knife through thick clumps […]

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“Meditations on Water (Ode to Escambia)” by Stella Meadows

Posted on March 5, 2021

I didn’t always know I was a woman. That’s one of the myths – that every trans person knows it from Day One. I guess I knew from pretty early […]

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“Unleashed” by Catherine Zickgraf

Posted on February 22, 2021

I clutch Dad’s oak tree leg. He reads the congregation my pre-baptism testimony. Seems myheart rejects sin, especially finger-painting my bedroom during Sunday naptime. But I’ll convertagain for another church […]

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“Those Black Americans” by Evelyn Umezinwa

Posted on September 18, 2020

My finger banged on the tiny doorbell. I paced back and forth trying not to fall off the tiny step. Finally, the door slowly creaked open. A girl, around my […]

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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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“Taco Dreams” by William Torphy

Posted on February 17, 2020

    Peg had made good on her resolution to leave West Virginia, and here he was in San Francisco, seasonless though it was Spring, sleeping on her new couch when what […]

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