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      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.
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      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
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      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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      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Fiction


Aunt Mary by Roger D’Agostin
November 29, 2022

Aunt Mary's breasts rest on her thighs like stacked produce.

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The Other Shoe by Julie McNeely-Kirwan
November 29, 2022

The sky blue eyes were closed, hiding ninety years of vehemence.

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An Understory by Andrew Walker
November 22, 2022

I could string myself together with the twine of nature and poetry.

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A shared interest by Patrick Malka
November 22, 2022

Our school gradually descended into a subtle chaos no one knew how to handle because the students technically did nothing wrong.

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Party of Three by Mathieu Cailler
November 8, 2022

Last night, I died. A driver plowed into my hatchback at 92 mph on the 110 South right outside of downtown Los Angeles.

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