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Short Fiction and Poetry


Some Like It Cold by Nicole Winans
The car crept up the hill through a wrought iron gate and parked under the light of a lamppost beside a small dark gatehouse [...]


Muse by Charlotte Rahme
The woman’s hair was brittle and grey, as she lay in her quiet bed.
Breathing in the fading day,
Soft, weak, shallow [...]


The Spice I Did Not Like Was Chives by Leslie Cairns
I finally figured out the spice I did not
Like, when I was a kid, and grandpa
Would hand me spaghetti [...]


In A Little Forecourt of Heaven by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
“Looks like another flood today,” said the Rootsmith, taking off her headphones. Across the room, Sagistus looked up [...]


Amelia by Geoffrey Heptonstall
Amelia dances alone, a girl again in a looking-glass room who moves through all the mornings and afternoons of each peculiar day [...]


Street Corners by Joan McNerney
Enveloped in exhaust fumes
slate-like formations
wait for light to change
her carbon dress
his face of ashes [...]


Fields Burn by Ann Privateer
I’m writing with charcoal
in a field on fire
because fields burn
to burn [...]


I'll Try To Explain Why Zombies Make Me Sad by Wren Donovan
The original Night of the Living Dead, all silver shadowed black and white, would rise up in my hypnagogic sixteen-year-old brain [...]


Survival of an Empath by Louise Worthington
The voices around her shout their woes.
Her whole house
Quivers
The walls begin to shake
Melancholy breeze pries its fingertips [...]


Who Are We Today? by Michelle Jacobs
I wake up while being walked down a long beige corridor. There are doors in carefully measured increments along the corridor [...]
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