Running Out of Air - Shannon Hudgens
That afternoon, Jack Finn slipped into the dark corner of a nicer bar than he had ever taken his wife to and watched a Martian suffocate...
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- Jun 5, 2021
- 18 min
The Girl - Gregory F. DeLaurier
The River listened. Always did, always had. It heard the moans and cries of those in this little City who faced the terror of life, of...
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- Jun 4, 2021
- 16 min
Skeleton Coast - Kerry Anderson
If this were a dream, she’d be flying. Through sand-sky, down sun-scorched highway, toward the thin, dark blue line of the sea. From...
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- Jun 3, 2021
- 6 min
The Flowers Are Mine To Pick - Yana Gitelman
In February 2020, I sit at the Harkness table in 242T, legs crossed and shaking, and I write a poem on a sticky note I am hiding in the...
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- Jun 2, 2021
- 9 min
The Raven and the Crow - Rebecca McPherson
The three of them are gathered in an untidy triangle, sharing a table in a cramped coffee shop on the corner of a busy street. It is the...
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- Jun 1, 2021
- 11 min
Who Cooks for Her - Max McCoubrey
“It was like a banshee....Whoo........ Whoo.... ” Padraic and Tozi were mesmerized by Mary-Ann Ruane’s animated story telling skills....
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- May 31, 2021
- 7 min
Streetlights - Liz Caldwell
The Louisiana air was stickier than anyone ever gave it credit for. Droplets seemed, she thought, to hang suspended in the air, and...
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- May 30, 2021
- 3 min
Whitespace - Hannah Anderson
It was summer. The kids on our block used to gather at the “big rock” on the corner of the neighbor’s lawn. Our bikes clattered to the...
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- May 20, 2021
- 9 min
Nobody’s Bride - Anna Halabi
Abu Issam was smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk under the awning of his bakery. “This damn rain. It’s keeping the customers away,” he...
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- May 19, 2021
- 6 min
Remnants - Kennedy Hill
An opaque, burgundy fluid pools beneath the refrigerator door. Its viscosity obscured by the cheap fluorescents lighting the kitchen...
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- May 16, 2021
- 6 min
Tipping Point - Mary Long-Schimanke
“So, I was thinking, what if people who are cremated go to one part of heaven and people who aren’t, go to another?” I say. Everyone...
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- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
Lake Cumberland - Amanda Crum
The lake smelled brackish, like it was trying to be something it was not. Tessa sat on the edge of the dock and dipped her feet in. Forty...
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- May 4, 2021
- 7 min
On Losing Someone Twice - Abigail Thomas
Rain hit the hood of my car in gigantic, pounding swings. I could barely see Sunset through the wet gray. A wash of same color sky and...
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- Apr 24, 2021
- 4 min
William Cass - The Way You Are
When she got her mail after work, Linda recognized her mother’s familiar script on the top envelope. She gave a sigh, then shuffled it to...
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- Apr 20, 2021
- 18 min
Just Another Day - Miranda Ramírez
*This short story placed as the 4th runner up of the 2021 Sad Girls Club Short Story Contest **Cowboy Jamboree is the original publisher...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 6 min
A Piece of the Aftermath - Katie Scarafiotti
White. White tile walls surround my front and sides, a never-ending prison. Their coolness brushes against my naked breasts. My stomach...
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- Apr 18, 2021
- 4 min
Letters to J. - Cindy Pereira
Dear J----- Is it arrogant to say that I died for your wife and kids? Like the Baby Jesus, I repented for your sins. Remember that naked...
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- Apr 17, 2021
- 9 min
Blowjobs at Johnson’s Drive-In - Taylor Leatrice Werner
Billy had worked at Johnson’s Drive-In for six years, when along came a blowjob that not only redirected the external circumstances of...
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- Apr 16, 2021
- 12 min
Bait - Amber Wardzala - Short Story Contest Winner
A girl and a man sit in a boat in the middle of a lake. The girl is thirteen and doesn’t think there is anything strange about the two of...
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- Apr 13, 2021
- 4 min
Burn Baby Burn - Genise Danzy
On this particular Summer morning, me, my older sister, and older brother waited on my father to wake up so that we could eat breakfast,...
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