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      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.
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      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
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      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.

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      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Flash Fiction

Fiction  / The Weekly
If Moons Collide by Tommy Dean
May 10, 2022
"Can’t you feel it? There are moons between us, pulling us closer."
Fiction  / The Weekly
Shepherd’s Pie by Sophie Develyn
April 19, 2022
Babies love playing with root vegetables.
Fiction  / The Weekly
There is News Along the Ohio River, IV – VIII by Beth Gilstrap
April 12, 2022
the river won’t ask this woman holding the bench’s arm why she thinks she might float away any second.
Fiction  / The Weekly
The Things We Found in Your Purse by Cathy Ulrich
April 5, 2022
Was she smiling because she was happy or did someone tell her to wait for the flash, to stay still and pretty and small?
Fiction
Postcards From Reno by Annie Berke
March 14, 2022
From the 1930s into the 1960s, Reno, Nevada was America’s Divorce Capital

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