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"Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome" by Jennifer Makowsky
I still can’t really say how or when Miriam made the move from being our English au pair to being my twin brother's girlfriend. It was...
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- Aug 7
- 5 min
"Henry Fuckbutter" by Brad Petit
Henry Fuckbutter was a real man, as real as any before or since. And I’m not just making this up, mind you—you can Google it yourself. I...
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- Aug 7
- 14 min
"The Lost Coast" by Claire Dodd
The painter’s wife was instantly recognisable: she was hurrying barefoot along the cracked stone path that linked the lodge’s drained...
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- Jul 1
- 8 min
"Here on Business" by Mick Leigh
He checked into the hotel early in the afternoon and paid with cash. The name he used was Richard Sanderson. The identification he...
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- Jul 1
- 22 min
"Mockingbirds" by Patrick Strickland
It’s around five-thirty when I clock out. Mike is protesting outside the clinic again. He’s got this hand-written placard that says...
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- May 9
- 10 min
"A Different Place" by Laura White Gray
“When did this happen?” Paula says as she scrolls through her son’s photographs on the laptop. “What?” he asks. Jarred by his question,...
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- May 9
- 15 min
"Coqen" by Philip Jason
We are here to hunt the beasts the natives call Coqeli. We have traveled six thousand miles by plane, car, boat and helicopter. For two...
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- May 9
- 15 min
"Elias Wolf" by Virginia Watts
Elias Wolf is a perfect name for a vampire, and the Elias Wolf who lived in my hometown of Putnum, West Virginia, certainly looked the...
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- May 9
- 11 min
"Haley Lovell" by Tommy Vollman
A few weeks after Haley Lovell’s third birthday, her dad buckled her into her car seat outside the old Milford post office, kissed her...
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- May 9
- 4 min
"Harbor Seals" by Mary Crawford
They kept the fucking a secret, as their workplace rules compelled: more difficult than it seemed since between them vibrated a palpable...
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- May 9
- 9 min
"Measured in Men" by Aarron Sholar
The upright speakers at the front of the reception hall invite the couples up to slow dance. I sit beside AJ at our table, next to his...
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- May 9
- 4 min
"We Sit in Restaurants" by Wendy BooydeGraaff
We push open the doors that say Masks required, No mask? No service, Mask up—it’s the law. Who looks at signs on doors. Who listens. We...
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- Apr 1
- 5 min
"The John Glenn Story" by Thomas Thonson
Her name was Albert II. But that wasn’t her real name; that’s what the NASA engineers called her, those doughy-faced men with pocket...
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- 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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- Feb 22
- 3 min
"Unfamiliar Gifts" by Lex Shramko
“I—am—so—sorry,” she says to me. Each word is a pause, a breath, a gift. Gifts that I no longer expected, but still wanted. I want us to...
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- Feb 14
- 16 min
"The Cake Eater" by Jason Thornberry
The heavy door opens, and I check in. Someone pats me down. When they finish, I put my keys, my wallet, and my Chapstick back in my...
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- Feb 14
- 6 min
"Belongings" by Adam Knight
I am not ready, but you drag me into the light anyway. You are gentle, and for this I am grateful. You treat me with respect. You fold my...
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- 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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- 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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- Feb 2
- 8 min
"Tantan Chacha’s Brand New Dragon Balls" by Ankit Raj
Tantan chacha swore on Brahma that the doctor had installed Chinese nuts for his old ones. The amicable neighborhood blacksmith could be...
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