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Category: Fiction

Natasha Ayaz

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020Leave a comment

Alternative

Behind the ancient, artisanal smoke shop – with its rose-scented rolling papers and cardamom-infused oils and hand-engraved boxes of imported tobacco – where, on this particular Sunday, a teenager has already taken a lethal dose of oxycontin and a … Read the rest

Cathy Ulrich

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020Leave a comment

How to Say Goodbye When You Really Mean Hello

The teenage girl at the end of the world gathers all of her textbooks, all of them — pre-calc, chemistry, world history — and burns them on the neighbors’ patio. The … Read the rest

Tyler Anne Whichard

January 20, 2020January 24, 20201 Comment

A Child Unlearns the Unloving of a Momma

The fact Hazel never had a momma makes me feel better about the fact that I don’t speak to mine much anymore. I overshare stories of my childhood all through sophomore year … Read the rest

Maggie Dillow

December 14, 2018December 14, 20181 Comment

SUMMER

She showed me her palms. Small and white.

At six years old, it was the butterflies. Collected in an old VHS case and placed, casually, in the freezer.

Then of course the baby bird, zipped up in a sandwich … Read the rest

Sabrina Li

December 14, 2018February 1, 2019Leave a comment

Borrowing

It was summer, and the lake at the end of Emma’s house stank of the heat, the moon hung fat and sickly. Emma spent her days sticking her head in the water for as long as possible, her body, … Read the rest

Laura Dzubay

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018Leave a comment

Paradise

 

Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay?

I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking,

Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.

—John Prine, “Paradise”

 … Read the rest

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