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    • Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
      Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
    • Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
      Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
    • Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes
      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
    • The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
    • Saturation by Claire Oleson
      I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.

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Fiction  / The Weekly
Call Me Verdean by Avitus B. Carle
October 27, 2023
I longed to be called Verdean, to find solace beneath the cracked bell in Philadelphia
Fiction  / The Weekly
So Many Clowns by Avitus B. Carle
October 18, 2022
You can imagine my disappointment, being stood up on a date surrounded by children, cotton candy, and parents drowning their misery in overly salted, buttered popcorn.
Fiction  / The Weekly
Sugar, Baby by Avitus B. Carle
October 18, 2022
One time, she found an old spoon in my purse. I told her mommy likes to collect old spoons.