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Fiction  / The Weekly
Beach Calamity by Thad DeVassie
February 27, 2024
Nobody recognized the reaper without his black-hooded cloak.
Fiction  / The Weekly
My Eating Disorder Competes on America’s Next Top Model by Rachael Marie Walker
February 27, 2024
She can transform, weigh so much, weigh nothing at all.
Non-Fiction
Reader Spotlight: Joanna Theiss
February 23, 2024
"Reading for Five South has made me appreciate how many writers are out there, sharing themselves on the page. It makes me feel less alone as a writer."
Fiction
Gumballs by Mike Prask
February 22, 2024
I looked down at Fay, who was again eyeing the gumball machine. While she did that, I glanced over at the door, plotting an escape, possibly before our gear was all the way loaded into the truck. She wasn’t even being bad, but it wouldn’t be the first time her behavior—or the risk of it worsening—forced me to flee a public location and abandon an adult obligation prematurely.
Non-Fiction
Spreading Light: An Interview with Bradley Sides by Joanna Theiss
February 16, 2024
Ghosts, monsters, and falling celestial bodies mingle with the all-too-real in Bradley Sides’ new short story collection, Crocodile Tears Didn’t Start the Flood (Montag Press, 2024). In “Claire & Hank,” a boy grieves his father while struggling to care for […]