Playing Guns
We played guns in the backyard, taking cover in the suburban rubble of rusted water heaters, broken bicycles, and empty cattle trailers....
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Madison Thomas
- Oct 28, 2020
- 17 min
For Once
The room was uncomfortably hot today, or maybe it was the thick cotton of Mildred’s stuffy old dress. Either way, she was tempted to cut...
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Lyndsey Kay Nelson
- Oct 28, 2020
- 9 min
Hair Dye Is Not Permanent
The first thing to remember when dyeing your own hair is that dyeing your hair isn’t permanent. Now, this may seem obvious, but when that...
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Megan Warner
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Picnic Parenting
I. I wear a potato salad smile, yellow Kind of squishy but soft like a “my mom makes it better” – don’t you know? Still disappointing,...
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Megan Warner
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Potassium-Based Chemical Retransformation
Yesterday you were slow Down crosswalk sign Yellow and curved like an Apostrophe, comma, slow Down there are children here Avoiding you....
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Andrew Leavitt
- Oct 28, 2020
- 13 min
The Memory of a Man Named Hank
It was a clear autumn’s evening when the old man first crept into the bedroom where Hank and his wife Debby slept. The old man pulled...
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Hannah M Duncan
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
The Real Reason Why Mermaids Don't Have Legs
There is freedom in the tide that pushes and pulls against damp sand. The briny breeze dances with the foam lapping at the shore. The...
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Amber Celelaith Tawen Rossi
- Oct 28, 2020
- 9 min
The Trail of Mental Illness
Editor's Choice It’s a cool July morning and I was supposed to be at work three hours ago, but I called out. I can’t go in. I’m sick...
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Beau Barton
- Oct 28, 2020
- 18 min
Warm Cold Cereal
Editor's Choice Sherry Stills sat alone at her table, poking the ice in her glass, ignoring the vibration of her phone, and scanning the...
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Madeleine Walters
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Oracle of Delphi
To be a prophetess of old Marble shrines, Gilded with whispers of praise Bangles on arms And ankles and throat Empty eyes staring at...
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Madeleine Walters
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Helene (of Sparta)
I wake to a clammy palm covering my mouth Paris’ eyes are feverish, Possessive and possessed Coarse fabric chafes against my cheeks And...
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Madeleine Walters
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Atalanta
Last night a faceless goddess Visited me in a dream Another appeared beside her Beautiful and awful The blank face Issued a warning...
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Hannah Lindsay Shepherd
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Firearm
An imitation of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens I. Among twenty high school classrooms, The only moving...
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Claire Leticia Chesnut
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
A Chiral Desert Experience
The sun pours down like honey, soaking into scaly lizards. Coyotes thrive on untouched land and homegrown bird gizzards. Sweet days birth...
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Sherisse Alheli Pendleton
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
ouroboros
there was never anything until suddenly there was, and it turns out it had all been here all along matter creates matter destroys matter,...
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Madeline Peck
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Let Us
Let us shed our skins and dance with our jittery bones and pumping organs beneath the light of God’s false eye. Let us braid each other’s...
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Madeline Peck
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
Henrietta Mara and the Socks Her Father Brought Her
Henrietta Mara walked to the edge of the lake. Henrietta unlaced her shoes and tossed them onto the moon-drunk sand. She peeled away her...
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Andrea Call
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Gas Planet Brain
My breath is blood. My blood is air. There’s a busy frantic dying thing shackled to the inside surface of my skull, Trying to grow webs...
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Beau Barton
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Rotten Filling
her skin sparkles below her 1920s pearls her long tassel skirt snags on the branches she bakes her lovely pies with rotten apples toasts...
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