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Shattered
By Stephanie Reddoch -- 21:00 Broken glass crunched under the coroner’s boots as he entered the apartment. The scent of a doused fire....
Apr 303 min read
Down By the River
By Meg Newman -- The man I’d been hoping to see was standing ten feet away from me, sorting through a pile of reddish-brown hardwood...
Apr 303 min read
Our Need for Consolation
By Lilia Mahfouz -- As a child, Arthur was mesmerized by the golden plaques affixed to building facades. Endlessly, he would ask his...
Apr 308 min read
Confession’s Not Till Sunday
By Gaurav Bhalla -- May is in the kitchen having breakfast—toasted English muffin topped with thick-cut marmalade and a piping hot cuppa...
Apr 302 min read
This Soul Selects Her Own Society
By Gaurav Bhalla -- Gina and Zoe Gina retrieves two bulging grocery bags from the back seat and shuts the car door with a merengue-style...
Apr 304 min read
A QUESTION OF RAPE
By Charles Parsons -- Judd Rafferty was one of my early criminal clients. He retained me when he was charged with the rape of a...
Apr 304 min read
Bronco Billy and the Dime Store
By Barbara Krasner -- The “A” was missing again from the five and dime’s marquee. Bill Aronson, looking up, knew he should be annoyed....
Apr 303 min read
Sima at the Store Window, 1967
By Barbara Krasner -- The evening was calm so far, even serene. But she knew what would come. The same thing that came last night as...
Apr 303 min read
The Persistence of Ruins
By Barbara Krasner -- White clapboards and wooden slats nailed across double windows peek through a veil of house-high ferns, maples,...
Apr 302 min read
REFRACTION
By Allison Cross -- The last guests were leaving. Only a few friends left. The counter was cluttered with empty bottles, crushed...
Apr 291 min read
Sunglasses
By Debi McKee [Winner: 1st Place] -- The sun rose on Nixie’s little beach town. It wasn’t the kind from 80s movies, montaged with the...
Apr 2914 min read
TELL ME SOMETHING TRUE
By Allison Cross [Winner: 2nd Place] -- Burnished mahogany with a large brass knob, the door resembles one you would see in a luxury...
Apr 283 min read
The Communion Dress
By P.A. Farrell [Winner: 3rd Place] -- The rain pounded on the roof while the sickening smell of the flowers in his nostrils added to the...
Apr 274 min read
Guard Dog’s Fury
By Corey A.D. -- Bulldagger, staring daggers, at the sludge upon the ground. Her lez has their legs covered in it's slurry. The dirt...
Apr 301 min read
The Kookaburra
By Pleco Philodendron -- I hear her when she’s lurking, an anklet And toe rings, and I smell it in her hair— The ring around the toilet...
Apr 302 min read
Pain in Flesh
By Julia Rose Maseda -- His hands hold me like they are the sharpest of knives, Painful. Enduring the pressure I bear with each breath I...
Apr 301 min read
POETRY
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