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“Blowing Out Candles” by Daniel Romo

Posted on November 25, 2022

For Devan Daniel Romo is the author of Bum Knees and Grieving Sunsets (FlowerSong Press 2023), Moonlighting as an Avalanche (Tebot Bach 2021), Apologies in Reverse (FutureCycle Press 2019), and […]

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“Dorset” by J.R. Barner

Posted on October 3, 2022

The most beautiful woman my father had ever seen, Except, he kept insisting, my mother, of course, Hailed from Grimstone, Stratton parish, in Dorset. So, I set out to find […]

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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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“What Lay Beneath” by Christine Yount Jones

Posted on April 29, 2022

In the sweltering summer of 1966, I have a kitten who will not cooperate under the Arizona sun that glares at me from its cloudless sky and scorches all things […]

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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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“Lookalike” by Cameron Morse

Posted on November 8, 2021

It’s funny how franticallya few leaves appear tobe waving at me when I liftmy eyes to the maplethat tried to kill me yesterdaydropping a hefty javelinjust a couple feet frommy […]

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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 – Minotaurs by Lane Talbot

Posted on October 6, 2021

Episode Description: Matthew, Marina, and Melissa gush about Lane Talbot’s Minotaurs before asking him about how he approaches his craft, the art of writing the thriller, and how his personal […]

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“The Surgeon” by Cameron Morse

Posted on July 5, 2021

If I  check my Facebookfor likes I must want to be liked      but why no one who sends me wishes knows my birthday       * Would […]

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“Stripped” by James la Vigne

Posted on July 8, 2019

Having little to his name when he died, the reading of Henry Fromm’s will went quickly. Nothing surprising or contentious. On paper he never did anything surprising or contentious. He […]

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“Canescent” by Jagari Mukherjee

Posted on January 7, 2019

1 These mornings, I wake to find silver threads in my hair — gleaming as if dipped in the winter moon. I have always loved oxidized ornaments and grey pullovers; […]

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“I Hid to Never Emerge” by Suvojit Banerjee

Posted on August 6, 2018

The snow in my lawn isn’t white. It is rusty like the color of my flowerpot. “Papa, can I go out and make a snowman?” howls my son. I say […]

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“The Clues Within an Adirondack Glade: Son to Father” by Greg Lucas

Posted on March 19, 2018

Now that you’ve passed-through woods deeper and darker than these — climbed into eternity — can you tell me, when our hearts stop, and we’re poised among the mysteries that […]

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“This is What We Do Now” by Becky Shirley

Posted on September 18, 2017

You come home, half gallon of milk in one hand, the other snaking around my waist. Head buried in my shoulder, no words, just small noises that I can feel […]

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