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Cyclone: a biography of inheritance

December 6, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Rowan Bassman

(flash creative nonfiction)   [Fix] The one time I met Dad’s dad, he pissed in Mom’s closet. Grandpa George liked speedballs—cocaine and heroin in the same syringe. He liked prostitutes—the power of purchase was the one he abused most readily. But most of all Grandpa George liked Music—and Music liked him back, God knows why. […]

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Passage

November 30, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Hugo dos Santos

(flash fiction) As a girl of seven, she was told to pretend the stranger was her father. Fake passports and stories to match, enough to fool an inquisitive customs officer. At first, she’d wondered whether coming to America meant she’d get a different father. A father who was there, not just a name to put […]

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Smoke and Mirrors

November 29, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Brent Fisk

(flash creative nonfiction) I found a fledgling in the yews in the side yard when I was eight or nine. He was covered in bird lice, and shit down my arm as I washed him clean with the hose. I still remember the heat of it. His big, dumb eyes blinking in the light. He […]

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Trouble with GobbledUp

November 28, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by KJ Hannah Greenberg

(flash fiction) Hi! Thank G-d I’m a busy writer, wife, mom, and grandmom. I joined GobbledUp several years ago. During that entire time, I elected not to take advantage of the many freebie upgrades you’ve offered me because of my high number of connections. Truth is, I’ve also been too busy to learn all of […]

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Lily

November 27, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Marie Marandola

(flash fiction) Because the white boy had saved me from drowning, my father invited him to dinner. He brought his six closest friends with him and three newcomers—including a girl. I’d never seen him with a girl before. She floated like a cloud by his side, pale as the moonlight by which we dined, and […]

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Word From the Editor

November 26, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Arielle Silver, Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

I began drafting this essay at the end of the presidential election season, in light of what many of us thought would be a landmark historical moment: the United States’ election of our first woman president. On November 8, as we are all too aware, despite winning the popular vote by (as of this writing) […]

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Now Serving Fresh-Baked Cookies

November 26, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Erica Gerald Mason

(flash fiction) I’m making cookies from scratch and I’m confused. But I’m here, cookbook in hand and flour in bowl, pretending to be something I’m not. Because I’m in love with a boy and I’m losing him. He likes girls who cook from scratch, who are serene, who have ponytails that bounce when they walk. […]

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Porches

November 25, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Geoffrey Anderson

My wife asks me to leave the porch light on before bed. I ask if we are expecting guests; she says it’s to keep them away. There was a time a flame in a window was a welcome mat, a compass in the dark. Tradition has a way of unraveling the longer it lasts. Think candles […]

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The Temperature of Islands

November 25, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Catherine McNamara

(flash fiction) After her heart attack Barbara returned to the island. She knew very well that the helicopter—if available—would take twenty minutes from the mainland. She went straight to the stoned guy on the beach who did winters in India, and bought a purple sarong. Barbara sunbathed nude, it was heartening—heartening!—and her ropey body soon gleamed. Friends […]

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Harry Dodge, Artist

November 25, 2016/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Carrie Kellerby

Harry Dodge is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, and author, whose work crosses genres and mediums, and flows through a variety of philosophical questions while addressing intermediacy, relation, materiality, and the unnamable. In the early nineties, Dodge was one of the founders of the San Francisco community-based performance space, The Bearded Lady, which served as […]

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Giant Slayer

November 25, 2016/in Winter-Spring 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / Levi Cain

July is obscenely hot, but the air conditioning broke two weeks ago and their mother won’t let them leave the house, so they suffer quietly. Felix sits on the plastic-covered couch, poking at the remote control with his toes, flipping from Maury to PBS to the station that only ever plays novellas. There is thin […]

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Small Packages

November 25, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Mary Camarillo

Paul hates talking on the phone so Connie’s the one who calls his daughter-in-law once a month to catch up. She doesn’t mind calling Vicky. She likes hearing about the grandkids growing up too fast in the new house in Simi Valley where they’ve never been invited. Emily’s ten and Noah is almost eight. “He’s […]

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Martial 2016

November 25, 2016/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Martial, translated by Martin Bennett

BOOK  I, 16 You’ll find good, middling, then bad in spades among these pages: So, dear reader, books get made. BOOK I, 23 Bathtime, that’s your banquet’s subtext: Feasting, soaking, double portions of beef. My guess why I never got be your guest? Undressed, I’m not your type. What a relief. BOOK  I,  28 Acerra […]

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Artist’s Expedition: Mixed Media

November 25, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Eghosa Raymond Akenbor
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Eternal Father & The Other Army

November 25, 2016/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Sarah Pape

It is still dark when I leave the house, bags and rolling cart full of teaching materials stacked up by the door. I let the silence of the road and the slowly lightening landscape pull me into the waking world, coffee clasped tight in one hand, while the other hand steers. I drive for an […]

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Progress Notes

November 25, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Jennifer Anderson

The first time I visit her, she lies in bed at the far end of the hall where residents with the worst kinds of dementia are placed, where the man in room 308 rigidly slumps in a geri-chair, eyes and mouth open wide as if in a trance, where the wild-haired woman in room 309 […]

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Danica Mae and other poems

November 25, 2016/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Jim Pascual Agustin, translated by the author

Danica Mae The President’s helicopter will never land near your barangay. He will never walk up to your mother’s house, dust his shoes off before stepping through the door. He’ll never look around where you kept your toys. His eyes won’t linger on your clothes as they hang or lay folded, now separate from the […]

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All My Bones / The Morning After

November 24, 2016/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Michaela Lamdan, translated by Joanna Chen

All my bones will say woman. All my bones say woman. Woman. Why do you curve. Why do you adapt. Why do you embody pity. Why. Lips rounded Your streets are lucid smiles Your palate candied. Your bones are bleached deep Your lips two weekdays sealed With golden twine. Your lakes are ancient dreams Crucified […]

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Every Man a Fortress

November 24, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Jason Arment

We traded snippets about ourselves when the chaos allowed and found we’d both joined the Corps to make something of ourselves, serve our country, and shoot things—Schnieder wanted to be a Rifleman while I was already slated to be a Machine Gunner. Before enlisting, Schnieder had been a degenerate living in his parents’ basement. I’d […]

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Aubade in Los Angeles

November 24, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2017 / by M.J. Arlett

August 1981, and someone’s killing

couples from Santa Barbara
to Sacramento. A woman called Linda

sits with her boyfriend

beneath the buzz of a motel sign
drinking coffee in the yawning summer.

This is the year they drove the Pacific coast
through towns where men lay hobbled,

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Emoticon

November 24, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Ellen Birkett Morris

(flash fiction) I knew Nick before we had words. Our mothers met in childbirth class. They were seated next to each other in the circle. They struck up a conversation and had such a good time talking they almost forgot the solid forms of their husbands, who sat behind them, legs spread, each supporting his […]

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Witness 2016, United States of America

November 24, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Deidra Edwards

The People wanted a reality television star to be their leader and we have to take responsibility for creating that. It was 2003 when the first season of The Bachelor aired. Girls were on their hind legs like animals begging to be picked for a rose. Jerry-Springer-type talk shows began their de-evolution into hysterical chanting […]

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Purple Pen

November 24, 2016/in Winter-Spring 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by J.M. Ellison

You started it. Last Thursday. Under the stairway next to the cafeteria door, there was a spot where the cameras don’t reach. The security guard was probably staring at a freshmen girl’s butt. You must have slipped right past him. I noticed it on my way to the bathroom. When I walked by, the security […]

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A Corrido for Macondo

November 24, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Joe Jiménez and Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

1. There was a table. Around the table, there were women and men and people who entered rooms holding their hearts in their hands. Around the table, people sat and they brought with them stories or words that would make stories, parts of little poems, thorns, and parts of their hands that would tremble with […]

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May Be I Was a Bottle: Mixed Media

November 24, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Elena Berriolo
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Impasse

November 24, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Eshani Surya

(flash fiction) These Alcatraz cells have ovens and sinks. Refrigerators. No ice inside Father’s, just time, chilling the rations. Past the bars, Father’s new captor paces. She is a child. Her blue ice skates have frayed against her ankles, but she sharpens the blades at high noon each day anyhow. Father sleeps on the top […]

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Tananarive Due, Author

November 24, 2016/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Kate Maruyama

I was lucky enough to be asked by the Horror Writers’Association to sit down with Tananarive Due for an interview that will be featured in the souvenir book for Stokercon, the HWA conference, where Due will be a guest of honor in the spring of 2017. The HWA is a non-profit organization of horror writers […]

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Disquieting

November 24, 2016/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Laura P. McCarty

I hallucinate. Only at night, only when I travel for work. The drug-induced visions are violent but worth it. I take an anti-malaria medicine to stay alive. Malaria nearly killed my ex-husband when we lived in Vietnam. His fevers reached 107.5. He convulsed, raged, and sweat. He should have died, like our friend Clive. The […]

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The Grey-Haired Man

November 24, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Alison Gibb

The grey-haired man was back again today. He sat there for a few minutes, which isn’t very long for him. Then he looked out across the street and started the engine. He always pulls out carefully though there’s hardly any traffic. People don’t drive down our road because it doesn’t lead anywhere. If you came […]

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Meat

November 24, 2016/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Ilija Đurović, translated by Paula Gordon

“The stench was awful again.” I hear her talking in bed as I shave. “I might have gotten used to it. I’m not sure.” “I don’t understand how someone can get used to something so disgusting and unbearable.” I believed that the unbearable stench in the apartment was affecting our sex life. We were making […]

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

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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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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

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!

Today’s plate:

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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