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What’s Left Beneath When All the Wishes Have Blown Away

December 4, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Diane D. Gillette

Kara is 14 and over breakfast, Cousin Martha comes up, how she got herself in trouble running around with boys.

“No one’s going to buy the cow if you’re giving the milk away for free,” Kara’s dad tells her, not for the first time, or last.

Kara opens her mouth wide, chewing loudly. She moos in a spot-on cow impression.

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The Rucksack is Packed and Hidden in the Pantry

December 3, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Rachel Laverdiere

Now, I will thread my arms through my raincoat and pull on my galoshes. Heave the rucksack onto my back. There is little I’ll miss in this house I’ve been scrubbing for forty years. I’ll hitchhike into the city. Tighten the straps and follow the crow swooping east, head toward the scent of death and rebirth—of decaying leaves composting into moist earth—

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Cat Wedding

November 13, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / E. P. Tuazon

When it was summertime and there was no school, Edmar’s cousin, Roanna, and her cat came from the Philippines to visit like they always did but, this time, to get married to his neighbor. Edmar, however, found this strange, as his cousin loved cats and his neighbor, Jeff, did not. “So what,” his father said at breakfast, swallowing his blood pressure medicine with his coffee…

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Facsimile

November 12, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Tanya Žilinskas

My boyfriend’s reasons for bringing home the fax machine were unclear. The insurance office where he worked was a curiosity of anachronism; Sergei and his colleagues wore wide collared shirts and polyester pants and saved their work on floppy disks. Their office was located in a former Masonic temple, and everything above the second floor was condemned. I was convinced it was a front for criminal activity.

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Collision

June 2, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2022 / Claudia Schatz

Let’s not read into it, but I got into my first and only car crash the same day I tried to move to the city where you live. I sat numb in the left lane with a bruise across my breastbone, holding up traffic, hood smoking on the hot tarmac until the tow truck came to haul me back home.

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Ice

May 30, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Fiction / Valmic Shridhar Mukund

It was cold the night Faruq let Narmina go. The draft climbed over his bare legs, sank into his pores and frosted through his insides. He shivered as he sat at the edge of the bed. He bound his knees in his arms, tried to tie up his naked body so that it would disappear into itself and rid the world of its ugliness.

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Black & Blue

November 23, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2022 / J. T. Townley

Our new target was local. Considering he was responsible for dispatching close to a dozen of us, motivation was not in short supply. Nor wrath and fury, though we tried to keep our emotions in check, focusing instead on our endgame: we had to avoid scaring Sgt. Robert Ray to death. . .

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Keening

May 10, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Josh Denslow

I have my own personal banshee. Most mornings, usually during my second bowl of cereal, she lets out a soul-melting wail to give me a heads-up on my impending death that day. I used to get worried, but it’s been going on awhile. And I’m still here [. . .]

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Gap Year

May 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Franz Jørgen Neumann

For Martha Kaas, half the thrill of going bohemian was not letting her husband suspect that she had. She appeared to commute to work at seven every morning but drove the opposite direction from her former life as a middle school math teacher. She parked in a garage in the garment district and spent the day exploring her creative side from within a rented loft space she shared with three artists: Somi, who worked in plaster of Paris; Fango, who altered thrift store paintings by painting in pop-culture characters; and Asia, upstairs, who made the ceiling breathe whenever she brought in her cadre of dancers [. . .]

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Zoom Yoga

April 16, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Liza Monroy

iPad’s camera adjusted so she was silhouetted, surrounding flat light showing only the outline of a form. Could have been savasana. A cloud moved, another Zoom self-adjustment, there was her face again. But it wasn’t early savasana. No one could go that long without blinking. I threw on a robe, turned my video on, and unmuted myself [. . .]

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March

April 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Bethany Reid

The low whistle of the northbound train broke a silence made of the shovel’s grating, of birdsong, of the rasp of Eva’s breath. Maud frowned at her daughter, then stepped again on the shoulder of the shovel, forcing the blade into the March soil. This plot of ground, heeled in against a patch of woods, had been worked for garden at one time. […]

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Nagano

December 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / K-Ming Chang

Aunt Yangyang was always telling us not to let my mother watch those late-night specials on serial killers. We thought it was because she was worried my mother would get scared, but it was really because she was afraid my mother would get ideas.[…]

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Objects in Space

December 6, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / Emily Davis

Abigail turned to Ben who was sitting on the opposite bed in their shared bedroom. His face was blotchy and red. His mouth was a crooked, downturned line. “Gone?” “He was abducted by aliens,” said Ben. “We’re never going to see him again.”[…]

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In and Out

December 3, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / Andrew Jacono

The most common question I get is how I’m doing. Fine, I say, laughing the whiskey off my breath. They know I’m lying, but they act like I’m not, and that’s all I really want. […]

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Life Stories

November 27, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / Taylor Mitchell

Lou didn’t need another coffee, but she needed to see her reflection again. The café’s insides were a meshwork of devil’s ivy and Matisse-inspired line drawings. Aesthetics at the end of the algorithm, her sister would call a place like this.[…]

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How to Skin a Fox

June 13, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Kelly Gray

Small circles of blood blossom. The water turns pink. With a quick breath she is all girl again, using her hands to feel the bottom of the tub. It is filled with shattered glass and her legs are bleeding. […]

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Sympathy for Wild Girls

June 12, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Demree McGhee

Between the slurred lisp of her words, Daisy’s mother starts to whisper to her about dead girls. It starts off as a trickle of information, gossipy fascination over the feral, invited by a story on the news or something that her mother heard on the radio while driving […]

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Fault Lines

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Thomas Pia

I had only seen them once. They’d probably escaped from a botanical garden or perhaps that tree had just been a stop on a journey circumnavigating countries, maybe even continents. […]

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Jouma

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Dor Shilton

Jouma nodded calmly, then got to his feet, excused himself and left the tent, his sons and entourage following in his steps. Today was the wedding of one of his sons, and the festivities could be heard from afar.[…]

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Feng Shui and Other Subversive Religions

June 9, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Yong Takahashi

Jackie Miller danced around her kitchen when she learned she landed a temporary-to-permanent position at Finch Life & Casualty. It had been years since she held down a regular nine-to-five. Her duties entailed answering the ten-line phone system, greeting guests, and opening the mail […]

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Cappuccino Take U-E

June 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Christine Kandic Torres

Those calls have been fewer and farther between these last few weeks. I suspect you’ve got to realize that, but if I’m honest, I’ve stopped wondering who it is you’re fighting during your backroom breaks at Best Buy instead of reapplying to your undergraduate program. […]

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Dog of War

December 4, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Maria Zoccola
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How to Be Royal

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Daniel Riddle Rodriguez
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The Forgotten Voices

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily Mirengoff
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Floating

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benjamin Selesnick
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Capillary Action

November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Shanique Carmichael
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A Brief History of Drills

November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Paula Lynne

When I was in the fourth grade, I was certain the world would blow up in its entirety. The Soviets had nukes—we all knew that—and the prospect of it would send my ten-year-old mind into recurring panics. At night, when I was supposed to be sleeping while Mother and Father watched the television, I would lie awake and imagine a group of men in hats standing over a control panel ready to nuke us […]

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Red Bird Rising

May 27, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Deborah Kahan Kolb

Becca drops her announcement into the conversation casually. “So… I met someone and it’s looking pretty serious so far.” She is sitting at a long table in the party room of the Hasidic shteeble near her childhood home, the small synagogue that her parents, creatures of habit that they are, still attend. Her father prays […]

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Vows

May 25, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Dhaea Kang

As you stare at the photo hanging above the fireplace, you are acutely aware of your wife in the other room, folding laundry. You wonder if she can sense this shift in your life, triggered by what just arrived for you in the mail. Though you’ve never seen her handwriting in English, as soon as […]

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When Light Is Put Away

May 24, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Heather Luby

Mr. Edwards calls me out tonight. He found another first-calf heifer in distress. The third one in as many years, bleeding and panting, eyes rolled back to whites under his flashlight. I sit on the porch steps putting on my mudders, cursing my stubborn joints, already knowing the likely outcome. Even so, I don’t dally. […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

Today’s course:

The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Tonight’s bites:

Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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