Her - Meghzie D. Peach
I I was around five shots of local rum into the evening when I spotted her. Gracefully, shamelessly, regretfully her. Scrolling between...
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- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
Legs - Lila Bovenzi
You know what I hate? Those razor commercials with that stupid annoying song. You know, the one that goes, “She’s got it! Yeah baby,...
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- Dec 13, 2022
- 5 min
A Remarkable Woman - C. Rothschild
Even in her early 70's, my grandmother, Olga, was still a handsome woman who remained elegant. She always insisted that the dressmaker...
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- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
Fangirls/Survivors - Lexi Clidienst
When allegations of sexual harassment and assault against pop punk band All Time Low started cropping up on social media in October of...
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- Nov 26, 2022
- 3 min
Shooter's Island - Erin Swasey
In the winter, we spoke about dogs that could save my life and ghosts in a summer home your soul never truly left. You knew the world the...
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- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 min
A decade to press delete - Madhu Arora
There is a number saved in my phone contacts, under the name “My Life”. I first saved it over a decade ago and have carefully copied it...
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- Nov 6, 2022
- 5 min
Starry Night - Wendy Chen
Without knowing why, I love to seek answers from the sky as if there’s someone up there, who listens. The summer is usually hot but not...
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- Oct 23, 2022
- 4 min
Senior Portraits - Terah Van Dusen
In my senior portraits I am wearing brown and green cigarette pants and a pea-colored spaghetti strap shirt. Most likely I looked like...
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- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
Requiem for a Law - Katie DeBonville
Roe v. Wade and I were born two weeks apart in January 1973. We both came into the world in the middle of storms: mine was a blizzard and...
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- Aug 30, 2022
- 5 min
PANDEMICAL PERSPECTIVE - Maddalena Beltrami
PANDEMICAL PERSPECTIVE The pandemic has changed life for so many people in so little time. New relationships have been forged out of...
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- Aug 24, 2022
- 11 min
Ms. M - Kayla Branstetter
“Just remember, you’re not alone,” Ms. M said as she cradled the eighteen-year-old college freshman girl, looking past the watery wells...
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- Aug 12, 2022
- 8 min
Cigarette Smoke. - Phoebe Robertson
When cigarette smoke enters your mouth the lining in your nose and esophagus will almost immediately become red and irritated. This is...
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- Aug 11, 2022
- 13 min
1st Place Short Story Contest: Finding You - Emma Zimmerman
On the day I met Alec, I wore a pink They Might be Giants tee, the same one my aunt had worn in the eighties — the sleeves cut off and...
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- Aug 9, 2022
- 4 min
About Saying No - Corinne O’Shaughnessy
I turn 60 and think, Shit, if I want learn Spanish someday, I better get crackin’. So I move to Oaxaca and enroll in language school, but...
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- Aug 6, 2022
- 8 min
Is Putin Still the Only Choice? - Judy Richardson
I remember when, on November 18 of 1956, Kruschev declared, “We will bury you!”. (What he actually said was, "My vas pokhoronim,” which...
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- Aug 3, 2022
- 10 min
Short-Lived Love - Constantina Safiliou Rothschild
I didn’t care how badly he spoke Greek. John was strikingly handsome. Beautiful dark brown eyes, a well-proportionated body, and dashing...
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- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
The Kind of Morning Where - Dartinia Hull
It’s been the kind of morning where: You know you mopped the kitchen floor last night but it’s sticky this morning, so you mop again. You...
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- Jul 19, 2022
- 7 min
Leaning into Spring - Jessica Shepherd
Here in south-central Alaska, winter seemed to drag on and on. Deep cold hung with us into March, snow fell almost daily from December...
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- Jul 16, 2022
- 5 min
Smoking - Corinne Patrice de Palma
When I awoke that day, I remember the faint sound of the cuckoo clock downstairs. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Doing. Doing. Cuckoo. My mother...
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- Jul 7, 2022
- 5 min
MAHALO - Linda S. Gunther
When my husband Bob surprised me with a near end of pandemic get-away to Honolulu I was beyond thankful. “Yes, I’m in!” I blurted with...
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