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Mermaids of Manana by Melissa Barker

November 3, 2023

We meet at the bottom. Our skin turns green and our hair stands on end. We plant our feet and hold hands and call the storm.

Out of Sight by Hannah Grieco

October 31, 2023

The monster could have sunk its teeth into the side of its husband’s skull, could have ripped his flesh from the bone, but it’s not a biter.

Let the Contested Moments Begin by Carol Dorf

October 31, 2023

If you meet me by the light of the moon, I promise not to bring stones.

A Realization by Iqra Abid

October 31, 2023

Maybe I’m looking for answers in the wrong place, pleading with a universe that does not hear me instead of listening to the body that homes me.

On These Streets by Aparna Mitra

October 30, 2023

In her smudged mind, he is still ten. It’s dark. She is calling him home, her voice waving like a flag

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
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.
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.