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“Gearshift” by Patrick R. Wilson

Posted on January 30, 2023

The car, an older gas-powered Lincoln, rolled up smoothly, making no splash in the curbside puddle. Driver’s face (human, of course, the Others could operate few Earth machines) stared impassively […]

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“Out of Body” by Liza Olson

Posted on September 9, 2022

I am lying flat on the ground in a quiet living room in a quiet home in the kind of quiet suburb everyone’s at least driven through, if not lived […]

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“The Last Atlantean” by David Henson

Posted on August 5, 2022

Atlantis Without Birds Marble women in gardens used to reach into the sky and gather birds by the armful.  Raindrops brought them down in scores to swallow worms they turned into wingbeats.  You could […]

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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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“Trenches, Rats, and Watercolors” by Geoff Watkinson

Posted on February 28, 2022

My internship duties in the Fine and Decorative Arts Department of the British National Army Museum included organizing and documenting collections of photographs and rearranging shelves of original 17th and […]

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“Loch Ness Monster in the Rain at Night” by David Henson

Posted on February 21, 2022

A fang of lightning crashesa branch into the wind-clawed loch. Thunder drives eels to the bottom. Water flashes downa mountain rising through the skin of the lake.The monster loves the […]

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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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“On Half-Inch Heroes” by Ben Umayam

Posted on July 16, 2021

Like all Filipinos, at the age of puberty, I became obsessed with penis size. I used to be very guarded about my bare body. What happened? A couple of years […]

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“The System of Considerations” by Keko Prijatelj

Posted on June 14, 2021

InsectsPerfected in that specific environmentIn thousands of nights & darksCrashing into that bulbLight impacts of ferocious attacksCongratulated admiredEach character with its own specialtyA monolith of single purposeIn thousands of nights […]

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“One Day” by Rebekah Ricksecker

Posted on May 20, 2019

6:47 AM The darkness turns gray; the misty fog rests over the water; the honeysuckle perfumes the air as white petals float on the still water. 7:03 AM Beneath the […]

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I Am Scared of the Night by Indunil Madhusankha

Posted on October 16, 2017

As the dusk creeps through the summit the once luscious sun dips below the rocky mounts And flocks of birds soar away weaving intricate patterns in the grayish sky Thus […]

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“A Fairy Tale About War” by Matthew McAyeal

Posted on September 11, 2017

Once upon a time, there were two big kingdoms and two small kingdoms. The two big kingdoms were called Khakia and Doogland. The two small kingdoms were called Bibbleton and […]

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“Traffic Kids” by Farah Billa

Posted on December 5, 2016

I don’t think in Bengali, I think it is just one of those things that fold my body  the way my grandfather used to. At least that’s what my mother […]

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“Diamondsuit” by Rachelle Pinnow

Posted on July 11, 2016

Rachelle Pinnow is also a professional geologist and a part-time writer. A graduate of the University of Calgary’s creative writing program, her short stories and poetry have been published in […]

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