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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
A Song Comes On at a Party by J-T Kelly
October 4, 2022
This is the part of the song where you wish you knew something about music theory
Fiction
You Can’t Sleep Here by Kathy Seifert
September 18, 2022
Cul de sac is a French term meaning bottom of the bag—you know that from when you worked as a translator. It also means there’s only one exit, one way out.
Fiction
Send Me a Word by Alice Kaltman
September 18, 2022
The hoodoos still bear witness, still wait. Tiny bore holes line the craggy ridges of soft clay like acne scars.
Fiction  / The Weekly
The First Time I Dug a Hole by Juliette Neil
September 18, 2022
I wasn’t strong enough to break through the first layer of earth, and I had to step on the shovel to make a crack, push my whole body into it.
Fiction
Upside Down by Kathryn Kulpa
September 18, 2022
Nothing above us but sky. Nothing ahead but road.

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