EMPTYING SPACES_________________________________ - Meghan Lennox
There is something about moving out that just makes me sick. It’s like being forced to dissect the contents of your vomit after an entire...
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- Jan 20, 2022
- 4 min
GROWING PAINS - Christine Alexander
I wanted to be an Eva Joia Girl. They were chic, bitchy-looking, blonde brooding beauties. Blank-faced and sure, dark blue-eyed and...
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- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
Becoming the Redwoods - Chelsea Bryant
After a hotel breakfast of coffee and bread, I’m driving moody passages through vineyards, past technicolor signs straight out of the...
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- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
The Year We Lost So Much in the Forest Fires - K.L. Mendt
At first, we watched the delicate ash as it fell. We caught the flakes, unique as their snowy counterparts, and rubbed them between our...
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- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min
Writing Excercise - Gwen Pryor
The stuffy sweet smell of vanilla, cinnamon, and fermenting milk greets us two blocks ahead of Dave’s Ice Cream Shoppe. I peel back the...
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- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Late Night Texts - Katie Bockino
Sorry for ranting my best friend texts me. It’s the same phrase I sent her two nights ago. We always are sorry, apologetic for texting...
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- Oct 10, 2021
- 4 min
Empty Leather - Ashley Lynn Scheffler Bhasin
My seat is taken and I stand in the doorway staring. I always sit in the same seat. I know she sees me looking at her but I don’t make...
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- Jul 10, 2021
- 4 min
Super-Bear - J. Leon
In this desert town, an oasis finally appeared as a text, inviting her for a girls’ night out. Maggie read it twice to make sure it was...
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- Jun 25, 2021
- 4 min
Deep - Samantha Bolf
"I thought I'd have to die to get you to visit again," your mother says. Her tone is merry, but her eyes are stiff, like stone. You...
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- May 13, 2021
- 4 min
Light the Blue Lantern - Michelle Cristiani
My grandfather was known as a straight shooter - even with me, his only granddaughter. He taught me venison was Santa's reindeer;...
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- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
Burnout - Hannah Fowler
Melody sat under the single lightbulb in her garage, edged between the space heater and the last pumpkin left in the bin at Trader Joes....
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- May 5, 2021
- 4 min
LOSS IS A DESERT - S M Van de Kamp
The afternoon was scalding and inhospitable. The man and the woman walked slowly down the sidewalk. They walked in silence, looking...
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- May 1, 2021
- 4 min
Feezing to Death - Elaine Mead
Eyes wide as I gaze out of the bus window, the city looks perfect. The streets are an elaborate movie set, come to life, creating...
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- Apr 16, 2021
- 4 min
Slim Pickings - Pamela R Winnick
Marla parked between the yellow lines and slid out of her Jetta, the April breeze teasing her long blond hair. She wore a leather jacket...
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- Apr 14, 2021
- 4 min
Parlor Games - Fannie H. Gray
There is pulp in the lemonade. Celeste frowns; she does not like pulp. She places the cold drink on the wicker side table. It has a glass...
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- Apr 11, 2021
- 3 min
Dear Lonely Girl - Rebecca Shafi
I see you on the train with the run in your black tights and the blob of soggy Cheerios hanging from the pocket of your over-worn...
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- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Alive - Viviane Simōes
You look at yourself in the mirror and you don’t recognize the face you see. You are happy. “Hey, it’s been a while”, you think. And you...
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- Mar 27, 2021
- 5 min
Ruckus at the Farm Stand - Christina-Marie Sears
Juan and me are sitting on the curb on CR 253, on account of the bus-stop shelter being full of people. I ball my exhaustion into my fist...
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- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
A Break with Reality - Karen Arbogast
A break with reality was what they said I had when I told them I encountered Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. Earlier that day I had been...
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- Mar 16, 2021
- 4 min
In His Backyard - Kathryn Friedberg
The stranger appeared in the doorway drawing on a pipe. Between his fingers on the stem, I see the Dunhill dot, and on one raised pinkie,...
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