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  Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.
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  I played a male Night Elf druid named Siladan Wintersinger.
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  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.
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  When my dog and I look at the sky we see haloes and fuzz, our sight clouded by a sameness.
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  To our benefit, it is an imperfect mirror, covered in scratches and slightly shattered.

Flash Fiction

Fiction

In the Blink of an Eye by Tom Finnegan

September 19, 2023

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

The Weekly

You Are a Spider by T.C. Kemper

January 31, 2023

When morning comes, you clap your pedipalps in satisfaction and wait for admiration of your latest debut.

Fiction / The Weekly

The First Step by Natalie Schriefer

January 24, 2023

From a snowbank I watched the squirrel run.

Fiction

He Was Never What You Would Call A Tall Man by Charlotte Turnbull

August 15, 2021

I measure him, balancing the ruler smoothly upon his godless tonsure.

Fiction

A Species of Least Concern by Joanna Theiss

September 9, 2020

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