Airport Ride
It’s post rain. The flat, yellowed lined Florida road steams ahead, like it’s barely containing the last layer of hell. Dad looks...
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John Duncan
- Nov 9
Of shipwrecks and serpents and Marilyn Monroe
There are no definitive reports as to what has happened. Some of the crew thinks it is the end of the world, others think the North has...
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Julie Benesh
- Oct 24
Paying It Forward
Almost every month I worried until it came I was intact, virginal, but PMS rendered me paranoid visions of sperm seeping as advice...
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Pamela McCarthy
- Oct 19
Light Falls
They stayed at a shabby motel called the Capeway Inn. It was one floor of weather-beaten cedar shingle, long and low slung, with a sign...
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Alida Dean
- Oct 18
Fire
My mom drives the truck along the road that hems the bluff. We're searching for the perfect job site, messy and still. It's Saturday or...
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Charlene Murphy
- Oct 10
Caught in the Rain
Charlene Murphy is a self taught hand rendered mix media artist. She creates fine art pieces that have either an abstract, eclectic,...
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Sean Cazzell
- Oct 10
The Ghost Dreams
Wild poodles terrorizing the forests, cows wandering, and horses running. In dense jungle, an orangutan builds a hanging nest, stillness...
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Evan Benedict
- Oct 7
Sheets of Ink
how can i ink you down when there’s no word for “eyes of wildflower and vine?” for the way our bodies meet at the hips, trench your...
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Madeleine Voge
- Oct 7
The Visitor
I wasn’t expecting visitors, I’m sorry for the hair. You may not see it now, but I’m going to ask you to leave your shoes by the door....
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Tim Tomlinson
- Sep 29
Wall Meditations #1
You drop down the water column surrounded in blue, you float down, weightless as a leaf in a zephyr. At the seabed fifty feet below, you...
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J.B. Fredkin
- Sep 29
Wordless
I will shuffle into today through the garage door where I’ll collect a high octane anxiety with old coffee grounds and soft boiled...
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Preeti Talwai
- Sep 19
"Colonoscopy Prep," "Glass Squid," and "Hematoma"
Preeti Talwai writes from the California coast, where she is also a researcher at Google. Her work has been published or is forthcoming...
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Rosanne Dingli
- Sep 19
Bend in a Road Somewhere
Five dishes. Spread on the table, they gave the room a hospitable air, even though I did not feel like catering for the guests above. It...
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Ellie Laabs
- Sep 14
In Expectation of Summer
These, the crushed-cicada days. Dry heat on brick, shoes quicken under sweat. Everything feels trodden one too many times. A smutty haze...
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Leah Browning
- Sep 14
"5150" and "Encyclopedia Britannica"
5150 This time, I get to ride next to her in the back of the ambulance. It’s a short distance to the hospital but the only things they...
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Alejandro Rendón
- Sep 12
Excerpt from "Miranda"
CHAPTER ONE: “DOES IT HAVE A VIEW?” This place looks out of a horror movie. Lauren D., Yelp Probably not. Most likely you’ll enjoy...
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[jp/p]
- Sep 12
Assisted Dying
There are no barbed wires here: there are keypad numbers green lights and weathered LEDs glued half-heartedly to brick We punch the...
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Patrick Wilcox
- Aug 30
Summer of racial reckoning
No, we can do better -- That summer was so much more -- Summer of swelter -- Summer of sickness and last ditch efforts -- Starving young...
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Samantha Imperi
- Aug 30
To my daughter, on shaving
I apologize that your body will cause offense, it being made of skin and bones fat and sinew all troublesome enough particles but also...
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S.J Strand
- Jul 27
Canadian Landscapes
S.J Strand works behind the scenes in sports broadcasting and took up creating art as a way to distract from the stresses of work.
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