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Month: November 2021

Needling by Greg Hill

November 11, 2021 admin Leave a comment

The prick made her wince. Pushpin. Husband. All the same.

Greg Hill is an experimental poet, a flash fiction writer, and an adjunct professor of English in West Hartford, Connecticut. His work has appeared in Six Sentences, The Writing Disorder, …

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Posted in: 10-Word Stories Filed under: Greg Hill

Cherry Pie by Ken Davis

November 10, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Alfred liked eating cherry pie more than any other food. Or candy. He had eaten a generous slice of cherry pie on special days ever since Madalyn Murray O’Hair and two family members were killed and dismembered in 1995. 

Alfred …

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Ken Davis

At First Sight by Hannah Retallick

November 9, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Cheese meets Burger. They embrace each other. An instant romance. 

Hannah Retallick is from Anglesey, North Wales. She was home educated and then studied Creative Writing with the Open University. She was shortlisted in the Writing Awards at the Scottish …

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Posted in: 10-Word Stories Filed under: Hannah Retallick

Stirring the Spark with Madame DeFarge by Kirk Wareham

November 8, 2021 admin Leave a comment

My reading adventures began in 1968, that scathingly abrasive year when Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of deluded men. On the ninth of June, I was unceremoniously tossed from a rural town into the …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Kirk Wareham

Another Chance by Michele Gensler

November 7, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Rip tide pulled her out; relented, and threw her back.…

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Posted in: 10-Word Stories Filed under: Michele Gensler

Chris Gets a Plant by Greg Tantala

November 6, 2021 admin 1 Comment

“I have no idea what to get him,” Kayla moaned while checking the stationary cabinet. She noted that they were out of scissors and wondered when the last time was she saw someone in the office actually use a pair.   …

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Greg Tantala

Bloody Merry Christmas by Louisa Bauman

November 5, 2021 admin Leave a comment

When I was ten years old, my mother told me about periods. I had never heard anything so earth-shattering in my life, except maybe when my grandmother died. 

Back then, we never even discussed pees or poops unless absolutely necessary, …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Louisa Bauman

The Montana Ovejero by Mark Russo

November 4, 2021 admin Leave a comment

The sun slipped into a slot between two mountains. A man on horseback was silhouetted against the granular sky. Shoulders slumped beneath his poncho, he rested his crossed hands loosely over the saddle horn and scanned the thousand or more …

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Mark Russo

From Beach Baby to Lawsuit, Baby! by Melissa Greenwood

November 3, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Twenty years ago, when my parents were divorced but dating again, they bought property together—where my dad’s business, a photoshop now sits—that is currently the source of a lawsuit between them. Both of my parents would like, and have tried, …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Melissa Greenwood

To There From by Mike Lee

November 2, 2021 admin Leave a comment

On this day of whatever, of the year I cannot remember, I spent the waning hours of sunlight cooking on an open grill outside my shanty three rows away from the river’s edge.

Bunbun strips roasted on the cast iron …

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Posted in: Flash Fiction Filed under: Mike Lee

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