Ashley - Natalie Higdon
Ashley was the prettiest girl in my first grade class. She had shiny, chestnut blonde hair - a shade bestowed upon her directly by the...
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- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
The First Good One - Niki Byrne
Everything you need to know about women, you can learn by rolling a cigarette. But I don’t know how to roll a cigarette. You also know...
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- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
Sunshine State - Mandy Clark
You’ve just stepped out of the movie theater into the humidity of a late August day. You weren’t particularly moved by the flick,...
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- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Hills to Die On - Madison Robinson
It was Nat’s first time being anywhere between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. Humid salinity. Drink bar. Squishy mucky sand. Hippy...
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- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
Mother Knows Best - Rita Redd
The sun and I yawn, the time of day when light spreads like a pesticide. Leaves you drowsy in the poppies like Dorothy, limp as a noodle....
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- Feb 1, 2021
- 4 min
We Were a Lie - Tamerlie J. Philippe
That day he threw us out my mother and me. Very few people know this. Not my older sister, not my older brother. That day, he packed up...
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- Jan 27, 2021
- 3 min
Jacarandas - Colette Estelle McCormick
When she looked at that jacaranda she did not see what they saw. She did not see it’s lush, creamy periwinkle petals that floated in the...
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- Jan 26, 2021
- 4 min
The Magic Airplane - Kimberly Parish Davis
The child lay on her stomach, elbows supporting her upper body, legs bent at the knees, bare feet in the air. She rested half in, half...
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- Jan 11, 2021
- 3 min
It’s Not Me, It’s You - Melina Maria Morry
What did I do to make you not want me? Was it something I said? Something I did? Did my body change, or was it yours? Do you see me...
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- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
White Feathers - Roberta Beary
You want to scream as you feel his gold ring which matches yours pressing down which you notice as an afterthought and you don’t scream...
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- Dec 29, 2020
- 4 min
The Millpond - Kira Wronska Dorward
Everyone called it the Millpond. Built by an enterprising gentleman to run his saw mill a hundred and twenty-five years before, the...
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- Dec 26, 2020
- 3 min
Fleas - Elizabeth Conard
We slept with the fleas that August. The house was situated along the White River, about twenty minutes from West Lebanon, New Hampshire....
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- Nov 7, 2020
- 4 min
Missed Connections - Melanie Thompson
You asked me if I liked Van Gogh. “What?” My eyebrows rose. “The Irises,” you said, motioning to the purple flowers sifting down the...
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- Nov 3, 2020
- 3 min
Portrait of an Internet Mean Girl - Emily Hessney Lynch
You sit alone with your hard seltzer and your phone, scrolling and scrolling. Who can you rage at today on the internet? It’s your...
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- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Out & Up - Giacomo Ranieri
It was a night with wispy clouds, a long time coming. A time between days of the week. A night where good happened. I had to make it...
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- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Grave Clothes - Tiffany Grimes
I wear special clothes when I visit my dad. I have a routine. When I get home from school, I head to the far closet at the end of the...
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- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
The House - Kate French
Time is dead in the shop. It sags beneath its jaunty green paint job, applied by well-meaning relatives, the placard announcing its...
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- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Waves of Emotion- Bethany Barton
It is hard to watch your childhood drift away. Like the waves of the ocean rolling back to the sea. The memories fade and return to their...
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- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
At Both Ends - Lily Dolin
When I was seven years old I held my finger over an open flame for a minute and a half just to see how long I could manage. When I...
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- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Momtalk - Tracey Harrington
“Well, I didn’t know about all the gay stuff,” she said with a small chuckle, playing with the strings of her light green hospital...
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