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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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The Beautiful Girl on the Flying Trapeze by Jacqueline Doyle
October 4, 2023

I was no longer young and hadn't been for some time.

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Hurricane Penelope by Timothy Boudreau
September 26, 2023

Her thoughts are like squalls of wind and water: concerned co-workers, ex-husband, grownup kids worried she’s drinking too much but too busy to come check on her.

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In the Blink of an Eye by Tom Finnegan
September 19, 2023

Do it, Zoey, Mikey said. Swim like a torpedo. I dare ya.

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Of Stolen Objects and Places by Jennifer Fliss
September 7, 2023

While scouring the map, he’d mutter in Yiddish, the language of dead Jews, the mother tongue of guttural mourning.

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Prospecting on the North Platte by Christina Ray Henry
May 2, 2023

"Surrounded by crushing oppression, I watched the shimmering sunlight reflect from John Michael’s golden hair."

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