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    • 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.

    • Caught by Chris Bullard
      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Fiction


Swimming Upstream by Amy Barnes
August 2, 2022

We wear Saran Wrap cloaks because real invisibility cloaks are too expensive.

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All Water Holds a Memory by Sabrina Hicks
August 1, 2022

You stood for a second—my slack-jawed baby brother, looking up at me just before a river raged between us.

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Copy Artist by Will Musgrove
July 26, 2022

Last week, the office photocopier gained sentience.

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Psychic Receives Yelp Reviews by Chelsea Stickle – from the Screaming Meemies series
July 19, 2022

I went to high school with this bitch and she is definitely not psychic!

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If You Could See Inside Pandora’s Box by Chelsea Stickle – from the Screaming Meemies series
July 19, 2022

Get close to insulting their manhood, and they’ll torch the world just to see you burn —that glint in their eyes is the flint that’ll start the fire.

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