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Short Fiction and Poetry


Shortlist Saturdays: The Music of Birds in Exile by Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi
mama is not dead.
she sits under the plum tree beside my window.
she’s a bird with prominent feathers; she’s a girl of fifteen [...]


Uninvited by April Bell
When I was 11
I was uninvited to a birthday party [...]


Love's Dark Deception by Alice Baburek
Sebastian Prescott sat behind the vintage oak desk. The life insurance proceeds from his wife’s demise had finally been deposited [...]


Vigora by Annika Bey
An altar, in a polished frame: a photo of you
on a dock
smiling at a camera over your shoulder.
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