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"Leak Proof" by Beth Vigoren
Black garbage bags hide. She has uncovered family photos, kid's art projects, broken devices, uneaten food, and soiled tissues—no...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
"The Forest Door" by Hannah Grace Greer
It seems to me, that when we sleep our unconscious drips. When I was a child, I always knew the forest. On school trips, I would go off...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
"Steps for Frying: A Guide for Birds", "Contemplation on Going-to-the-Sun Road" by Jen Karetnick
Steps for Frying: A Guide for Birds I. Quail is a good starter bird for when you want to learn how to deep-fry a turkey, excoriate in...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
"old love in psylocibic puerto vallarta" by Anna Bagoly
I. I expected more desert than dripping, green oasis surprised by my own assumptions and there she was the first love of my life (after...
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- Mar 13
- 2 min
"Before I Bite, I’ll Say This" by Valentina Rivera-Lies
Like my mother, I was born with teeth––smoothed stones for shredding bones that sink deeply, fixed neatly, into bleeding gums. It was a...
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- Feb 12
- 3 min
"Food Truck Philosophy" by Jen Schneider
1. I grew up in a home consumed of rings. Not of marriage or vows but of wrestling and worrisome wows. A blend of heat and heels...
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- Feb 12
- 11 min
"I Am" by Skylar Camp
My Kindergarten teacher was sick. I wasn’t sure what she had, but she couldn’t teach us anymore, and a new substitute came to take her...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
"A DNA Match Not Known to Me Asks About a Deceased Relative in Common" by Colette Parris
I. What I Read Born over one hundred years ago to a non-agricultural family in a small, hot country. Baptized seven days later in a...
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Broadkill Review
- Feb 4
- 4 min
Three lyric essays by Liam Strong
we will always be /bIe/ after Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal always look at “b” for baby or bye-bye or boy. (the voiced bilabial stop of /b/ is a...
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- Feb 4
- 4 min
"Liminal Losses" by Shelley Gaske
7:30 am “What’s your name for your coffee order?” She waits, expecting something she’ll misspell anyway. My government name? Nickname?...
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- Feb 4
- 3 min
"The Child" by Tyler Vaughn Hayes
We were paired by default, Hannah and me. That’s what happens when you’re in kindergarten and too shy to pick your own partner. Our...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Options" by Emily Shawn
I’m in the passenger seat in his car on our way back from Mount Cannon, my legs feel like jelly and all I want to do is peel off my socks...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
“Harry the Habit Breaker” by Bethany Bruno
In the fall of 1993, Sheridan Park Elementary in Hollywood, Florida, hastily created a mandatory in-school assembly on the dangers of...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Games of Chance" by Evan Gurney
What does one do after brain surgery? Back at home from hospital I couldn’t look at screens. I couldn’t read. I couldn’t walk more than...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
"Anaphylaxis" by Joanna Acevedo
Anaphylaxis Limbic resonance—I often know when he’s not feeling well, even before he tells me—I know when something’s wrong, the way a...
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- Jul 18, 2021
- 8 min
"Photo Synthesis" by Elise Seyfried
#1 Berrigan and the Bambino It’s not even the original photo. Some relative at some point scanned a few copies and sent them around....
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- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
"The New Gary" by Jason M. Thornberry
When I was five, I found myself in the backseat of my stepfather's VW Bug as we hurried to the hospital. My stepfather was in the front...
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Broadkill Review
- Jul 1, 2021
- 12 min
"Deca-meron" by Alexandria Peary
“How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it.” Kenneth...
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- May 2, 2021
- 8 min
"From There" by Cheryl Sadowski
When you drive north on Virginia State Route 15, the first indicator you are anywhere at all is Point of Rocks Bridge. The concrete maze...
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Broadkill Review
- Apr 1, 2021
- 5 min
"parasites" by cindi camponotus*
the morning is hot. perspiration covers the barren ground. gray clay blotched with umber and burnt sienna is sanded with quartz grains....
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