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Month: January 2019

Luck’s Run by Ace Boggess

January 28, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Luck’s Run wasn’t a city so much as a refueling stop, a name on a sign on I-79 about halfway between Charleston and Morgantown. The air soured and stank from natural gas wells and corpses of skunks struck by coal …

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Ace Boggess

There is More by Gavin Mndawe

January 24, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Desire

Plus keeping an eye out

Equals what we call

The opposite of fictional

We only hear a few decibels

Nothing high-pitched you know

They talk about molecules

That never really show

 

Woe to the puppets

With solid views…

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Posted in: Poetry Filed under: Gavin Mndawe

The Lunatics’ Holiday by Leah Mueller

January 21, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Only impoverished lunatics spend Christmas eve at the Original Mitchell’s restaurant. My boyfriend Scott and I had five bucks to our name. Santa had shunned us. We’d been extra bad, and there was no redemption in sight.

We sat at …

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Posted in: Flash Fiction Filed under: Leah Mueller

Lake Shore Boulevard by Andalah Ali

January 18, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Last Thursday I got a run in my stockings and told Doctor Mayer about my fascination with Lenora Ashworth. I’d seen her photograph in a newspaper clipping at the reference library downtown and hadn’t stopped thinking about her since. Thin, …

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Reunion by Annie Bien

January 15, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Columbarium photo: once handsome face, stroke gnarled. Flowers. Hello, Uncle.

Annie Bien is author of two poetry collections, Under Shadows of Stars (2017) and Plateau Migration (2012). She translates Tibetan Buddhist scriptures into English through 84000: Translating the Words of …

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Posted in: 10-Word Stories Filed under: Annie Bien

Summoning the Dead by Dorcas Wilson

January 12, 2019 admin 1 Comment

Adam took a long swig of the potion and scowled. He’d changed the combination of herbs which had only served to emphasis the pungent taste. He had no choice but to drink it as it helped him summon the dead. …

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Posted in: Flash Fiction Filed under: Dorcas Wilson

Green Space by Sheree Shatsky

January 10, 2019 admin Leave a comment

I study the pile of debris.  “How long has this been sitting here?”

“Week, few days, time’s a blur at this point.”

“Well, I’m not touching it, anything could be living inside.”

George hands me a rake. “Give it a …

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Jennifer Goes on a Diet by Francine Witte

January 6, 2019 admin 2 Comments

Again.

She tries on her closet. Nothing fits.

She throws out her clothes. She’s done this before. And twice before that.

With nothing to wear, she is glad she has no lover, no places to go.

But first, there will …

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Posted in: Flash Fiction Filed under: Francine Witte

Forfeit by Sarah R. Fulkes

January 2, 2019 admin 1 Comment

The Assembly ball was the last time she truly felt well. She recalled the night with perfect clarity, each detail clear and colorful, down to the color of her perpetrator’s eyes.

They were not brown, as everyone around her assumed, …

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Sarah R. Fulkes

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