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“Murder in the Dark” by F. J. Bergmann

Posted on May 15, 2023

She came out of the woods with nothing but a blanket sprayed with white and silver paint #F. J. Bergmann #TheMetaworker
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“Lives of Dust and Ashes” by Marie-Louise McGuinness

Posted on April 17, 2023

“The bang came afterwards, as if the earth had just regained consciousness and gravity returned with violent force.”
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The Metaworker Podcast – In the Willow Garden by Isabel O’Hara Walsh

Posted on February 24, 2023

Episode Description: Matthew, Elena, Mel, and Cerid talk with Isabel O’Hara Walsh about her short fiction piece “In the Willow Garden”. Content Warning: We discuss victims of trauma and abuse […]

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“The Day in Yellow” by Shelley Davenport

Posted on August 1, 2022

Afternoon. Deep afternoon. Long afternoon.  Too deep. Too long. Sylvie in her quilted bed.  Try to sleep. Go to sleep. Quickly now! Go to sleep. Outside is all brown branches, […]

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The Metaworker Podcast – Ruins by Mary Paulson

Posted on January 19, 2022

Episode Description: In this episode, Matthew, Marina, and Elena talk with Mary Paulson about her poem, Ruins. We talk about writing poetry to express deep emotions, writing and rewriting with […]

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“Passing Through” by Dale Cottingham

Posted on January 17, 2022

“There is no answer” you said “to whyin an inquiry because an inquiry is to find out why,”your voice rising over us like a storm,a sample of the truth from […]

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“Transformations” by David Henson

Posted on February 5, 2021

Mom’s breathing was shallow, her skin rough, hair green. I glanced up and saw my father, Fred, checking his phone as his wife of almost 40 years transformed. Fred and […]

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“A Steppe Doctor” by Sergei Linkov

Posted on February 1, 2021

The doctor’s fingertips have turned to gelatin. He is certain that with each hour they are wearing down, leaving watery smears on the skins of his patients and on his […]

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“Traumatic Pneumothorax” by Melanie Gaughran

Posted on April 8, 2019

Melanie Gaughran is a university student in the city of subdued excitement, Bellingham, Washington. Particularly concerned with her internal workings and misworkings, she finds that putting them to paper can […]

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“Modern Sunsets” by M. A. Istvan Jr.

Posted on July 9, 2018

daytime gutter vomit scared to change your way from one that has been making you money color-segregated schools for the blind the increasing pressure to pass— indeed, identify—as one of […]

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