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- Caught by Chris Bullard
  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.

Long Fiction

Fiction

Fresh Bites by Prachi Kamble

December 2, 2023

Like a burglar in an action movie, it had dropped from the ceiling with paranormal accuracy.

Fiction

Open Gate by Melissa Fitzpatrick

November 9, 2023

I tell her David lives in Seattle with his husband. I don’t tell her that it’s been almost a year since David has spoken to me.

Fiction

Your Guide to Astonishing Success as an Altar Server by Brian K. Hauser

October 5, 2023

Being gay wasn’t an option. And to my adolescent mind, perhaps becoming an altar server would straighten me out . . .

Fiction

The Beautiful Girl on the Flying Trapeze by Jacqueline Doyle

October 4, 2023

I was no longer young and hadn't been for some time.

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