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Fiction

True Evol’s Kiss; Prince Charming Awaits outside the Cave…

Felix Campbell -
Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...
Fiction

Castle Bar; Ode to a Nanjing Legend

Morgan Gallup Zhu -
“How’d it go? Tell me everything. Do you want a smoke?”, Jialing asks rapid fire as she pulls a cigarette out from her pack of Nanjing Reds and tosses it at Rachel.  Rachel and Jialing are sitting on an old...
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Out Damned Yellow! Out I Say; The Key is Acceptance, Not Cure

Ryan Thorpe -
Mariel had been told that she’d been born white as wedding-cake frosting, but she wasn’t white anymore.  She looked down at her hands and saw the yellow collected on her fingers like she had been playing with corn flour. It...
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Wordless Teaching Conversations; Gesturing in Vain to K-1C

Hattie -
Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.  She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the...
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Noise, Madness, Pain; Seeking Moments of Quiet in a Loud Life

Bobbie Ali -
“Lucky, you hear that?”  I ask as I pull the pillow over my head, awakening from a restless sleep. I look over at Lucky, who climbs over to me and nuzzles my cheek, and I scratch behind his ears.  I try...
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In the Game of Desire and Shame; Keep Count

Rachel Benham -
The Artist makes ceramic tea pots, but he drinks coffee. He makes espresso mugs and a soap dish for his new apartment. He makes an ashtray and then quits smoking before he’s fired it in the kiln. She asks...
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Stone; The Tale of a Compulsive Rhymer

Daniel L. Mayers -
I can tell you diary, for this will not breakThe promise I was made to make,This poetic flair was fun at the startEveryone thought I was really smart,Now they think I’m doing it in spite,Even now it affects the...
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From XXX Road Metro Station

Timothy Natcher Pruett -
Found taped to a life insurance advertisement adjacent to the escalators of exit 1B, XXX Road Metro Station, 13 October, 20:32. If you are the man, height 170-175 cm, full head of hair but some strands of gray, who takes...
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