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    Broadkill Review
    • Feb 28
    • 23 min

    "Goodbye Joan" by Susan Holcomb

    At 7 am on a Friday, Ellie stood outside her apartment dressed like Joan of Arc. From her window upstairs the street had looked sunny and...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Feb 28
    • 15 min

    "One Hit Wonder" by Dan A. Cardoza

    Way back in Tommy Tutone's childhood Chicago, the word on the street is that Tommy was conceived under a dead hickory tree, on top of a...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Feb 14
    • 14 min

    "Courtship" by Terry Mergenthal

    The Walther P22 in Carl Peltier’s glove compartment isn’t the same gun his father used. That was the P38, heavier by a pound and forever...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Feb 7
    • 19 min

    "The Posthumous Father" by Robert Pope

    When I originally wrote this story and sent it to a magazine I thought might be interested, I got it back with the note they rejected it...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Jan 27
    • 11 min

    "Emotional Rescue" by Stephanie Tamagi

    Eddie says things must change between us, that they can’t be as before. “Because I’m not here anymore, not really.” He has tried to...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 21 min

    "Unhappy Dido" by Diane Lefer

    They started with Ravel’s Bolero. Instead of the snare drum with a quiet heartbeat tap, the concert took off with a bang. Sure, before...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 21 min

    "Unseen Links" by Rebecca L. Monroe

    “Two cents.” Sarah looked up in surprised. “Oh, nothing. I wasn’t thinking anything.” Emma raised an eyebrow. “Really? Is that why you...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 14 min

    "Dying to Know" by J.D. Kotzman

    People die every day. That’s what I kept telling myself anyway—anything to explain why we put Lisa in the ground this morning, why a...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 15 min

    "Grounded" by Kim Bradley

    The crop duster was named for his mother’s ornery great uncle, Hawthorne Eustis Middleton. Young Hawthorne never took to it. When he was...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 11 min

    "Veterans' Reunion" by Toni Artuso

    CW/TW: Historical racism In memory of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (AKA Lyons Wakeman) (1843-1864), who died in hospital while serving with the...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Sep 30, 2021
    • 16 min

    "The Spiritual Property of Tully Lieberman" by Walker Zupp

    I Today I intend to document how the middle-aged, physically fit and balding Tully Lieberman lived in a house on the very edge of the...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Sep 30, 2021
    • 11 min

    "West Side Highway" by Leah Erickson

    When she emerged from the elevator, he was surprised to see that she was alone. Usually, she was with her husband, on the way to a book...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Sep 30, 2021
    • 11 min

    "Someone in the Know" by Gretchen Hays

    I’ve got the number on Lou. I can tell you his routine, his habits, how and when he laughs and who he spends his time with (no one) and...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Jul 18, 2021
    • 13 min

    "En Garde" by Mary Claire King

    Walking through Melinda’s apartment, Alice decided the bathroom would be the best place to hold a private conversation. The apartment...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 25 min

    "Waiting for the Noun" by Paul García

    Joe walks past the grey-painted cinder block walls and numbered steel doors to introduce himself. The young corrections officer staring...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 8 min

    "The Schubert Quartet" by Robin Ray

    “Ugh.” I don’t know what woke me up just now, but my head feels like there’s an overweight clown with leaden boots performing cartwheels...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 6 min

    "Rondo in a Minor Key" by Nina Rubinstein Alonso

    I try to stay away from maddening people, better than I used to be at spotting them, but Alejandra called after her accident. “Bad enough...
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    Broadkill Review
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 14 min

    "San Armando" by A.J. Ortega

    I was lucky to survive sixth grade. It was the same year the Plaza de Toros Monumental was demolished just across the border. It was a...
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    Broadkill Review
    • May 2, 2021
    • 25 min

    "An Ode to Dirt-Bags and Behind the Scenes Georges by Skookum Maguire" by Robert Bennett

    I sat in my six-month-old, three-quarter-ton pickup with the air on and watched as streams of people came and went from the single-story,...
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    Broadkill Review
    • May 2, 2021
    • 15 min

    "Smoke City" Michael Chin

    Madeleine cradled my ankles in her arm pits, my body bent into a crescent, legs long and oiled, feet bare in the customs of Smoke City...
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