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Poetry Ana Maria Caballero Photo Credit: Nick Treby It’s been done before: The need for conversation starts and ends with a slow walk around a familiar, short block— the light purse or empty pocket....
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Poetry Jared Carter Photo Credit: Griffin Stewart Inscription Now these initials carved in bark will, when this tree No longer stands, still in our dark enchantment be A witness to that moment when, as...
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Poetry Cindy Clarke Photo Credit: Coal Miki You Bring Me Coffee Even though you don’t drink it and don’t much like the smell of it you know I need it to warm me and wake me so you make a … Continue...
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Poetry Lisa Parry Photo Credit: Kristaps B. He’s a man on the King’s Road—macintosh, trilby hat—who kisses me by the newspaper stand, says Come on babe and off we go, on a bus over Chelsea Bridge to...
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Poetry Diane Webster Photo Credit: Rene de Paula Jr. Gone or Closer Only three days gone marked by three newspapers stacked for you to read, stacked on the chair no one sits in, stacked so the cat in a...
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Flash Cezarija Abartis Photo Credit: markconsidine33 Her muscles ached, shoulders and back from leaning over the bike, quadriceps and calves from pumping the pedals. She had cycled the course a couple...
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Flash Bill Gaythwaite Photo Credit: Fabian Gonzalez My mother was released from her film contract the same day her tooth happened to abscess. That’s how she met my dad. He’d just opened a dental...
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Flash Melissa Reddish Photo Credit: Gratiela Dumitrica It didn’t start with blood. First there was an ache, smaller than hunger, that nestled just above bone. It flushed through my body like an...
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Fiction SJ Bradley Photo Credit: Jeff Moriarty Sleep came sparingly that first week. Dozing evenings, Lucas heard Lilla and Peepers moving around in the room upstairs. He often woke again when it was...
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Fiction Heidi Vornbrock Roosa Photo Credit: State Library of Victoria Collections True love is forever, or so they say. A half an hour before we found the bodies of Ralph and Edie, John was singing...
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Fiction Ralph Uttaro Photo Credit: Lisa Jacobs David Morrow stood alone on the beach. He stared out toward the horizon, an invisible point he knew existed somewhere off in the dark. He watched the...
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Creative Nonfiction HC Hsu Photo Credit: Mary/goldsardine A few days ago I saw a video online; it was Mai Yamane singing “Amazing Grace.” The place was probably somewhere in Tokyo, Japan, in what...
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Billiard’s Pick Cindy Clarke Photo Credit: Ryan Hyde The night stretches in a long line of laundry and packed boxes with dogs by the back door, panting for rain. This is not a house by the sea. I am...
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Baker’s Pick Cheryl Diane Kidder Photo Credit: Silver Starre The sun came in sharply against the heavy curtains of Ramada room 615. It was a Thursday morning and the maids weren’t quite up and about...
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Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Cheryl Clark Photo Credit: James Butler The circle of yellow light framed its headless performer, but she stood silent. They always were. He liked the ones in the bridal...
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Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Kate Lansky Photo Credit: Jeremy Hiebert Tiba let out a gusty sigh and leaned back against the rough skin of an orchard tree. She could taste weather in the air, sweet...
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Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Lorraine Nelson Photo Credit: Jonathan Sanderson Carter ran until he thought his lungs would burst. His footsteps thudded against the packed earth, sounding like a...
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Candle-Ends: Reviews Shelley Carpenter Alan Averill’s debut novel The Beautiful Land (Ace Books/Penguin Group, 2013) was the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2012. The Beautiful Land...
View ArticleWatching Horsepats Feed the Roses by Caroline England
Candle-Ends: Reviews Shelley Carpenter Caroline England’s collection Watching Horsepats Feed the Roses (ACHUKAbooks, 2012) brings the short story form to its zenith. A dozen stellar stories are filled...
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The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors Theryn “Beaver” Fleming Photo Credit: ghost of anja “In knitting,” she said as she began to cast on again, “you can fix everything.” … At last, here was...
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