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Tag: romance

“Game of Interludes” by Patricia Ann Bowen

Posted on April 24, 2023

“He told me how the image of that clear cold gin sliding past my red lips and down my throat had driven him nearly mad with desire.”
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Three Microfictions by Ashley McCurry

Posted on September 5, 2022

My Friends and I Started Having Premonitions About Future Lovers Sonia dreamt of being sawed in half by a mustached magician, rugged steel grinding rosewood beneath hot stage lights. Margie […]

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“In the Kingdom of Songora” by Linda McMullen

Posted on January 31, 2022

James was a senior when I was a freshman at Salem North High School; I fell in love with him when I heard he’d persuaded the principal to let him […]

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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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“Rangoli Man” by Mina Rozario

Posted on June 11, 2021

Maya’s entire town had awoken one morning to find swarms of people milling outside their doors, their skins a mottled mix of colors: sunny yellows, rich crimsons, deep blues, and […]

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“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts

Posted on March 15, 2021

She’s even made the bed where another man will rape her. The swine have been slaughtered, the silver’s been laid. Everything’s ready. She scans the room once more. She’s always […]

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woman leaning back in a chair with her hand touching the grass

“Little Gem Magnolia” by Paul Rabinowitz

Posted on January 15, 2021

I In an old cafe on Frenchmen Street in The Faubourg Marigny, a ceiling fan churns, throwing dust into the eyes of an old painting of Madame Rose Nicaud. A […]

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“Advice for Young Lovers” by Thom Young

Posted on November 11, 2019

“try hate later on” #MetaworkerMonday

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“The cops have Julia” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

Posted on May 6, 2019

I knew already, struck with the phantasm of a dream that I had taken the reins of my life at last. Like a drowning man finding the hole in the […]

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“7820 miles” by Snata Bose

Posted on October 1, 2018

How can I forget you If your breath is on my skin, A peppermint sweet cloaked around my neck, Hair chaotic against my chest, Eyes as dreamy where my Eden […]

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“Two Kisses” by Tadeu Bijos

Posted on December 14, 2015

I was five years old when I first kissed a girl. Her name was Juliana and it happened during my kindergarten recess, on the sand playground. Juliana was a redhead […]

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“They” and “The Mountain Where our Bones Showed Through” by Jesse Swire

Posted on August 31, 2015

They Sleek bold body bound by expectations by gendered declarations forced to function in conversations split in twain by ‘his’ + ‘her’, no ‘they’ How to navigate this intimate space […]

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