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    • The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
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      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.
    • Night Elf Bildungsroman by S.C. Svendsgaard
      I played a male Night Elf druid named Siladan Wintersinger.
    • The Mother-in-Law by Angela Sue Winsor
      They wanted to get married. Something very small. They imagined what they were planning was modern and subversive and uniquely romantic, as if couples haven’t been rushing to courthouses every day for decades and decades.

The Weekly


Desire Speaks by Alexandra Burack
September 11, 2024

I do not think of you with sea-green eyes, backlit by August sun.

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I Drive You over the State Line by L.M. Cole
September 3, 2024

We leave your dead name there on the banks.

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Elegy for the Unloved by Kevin Clark
August 28, 2024

Nixon declared daylight savings early that year, as if the raw face of the city needed more daylight to show itself off...

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Rock and Roll Wednesday in the Retirement Home by Kik Lodge
August 18, 2024

Grandma knows about science.

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Rising vs. Nadia by Cadence Mandybura
August 13, 2024

When she isn’t careful, Nadia’s feet unhinge from the ground.

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