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Short Fiction
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
 2 min

deadname

Ez Maupin

a girl with my name died, so i went to her funeral.
she'd been missing, and i guess the ground ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

Her Future

William Eitelgeorge

She'll wake up tomorrow.
She'll open her eyes to a cold day fractured by a beam of light dashed across her face. She'll wait there for a minute, grasping onto the last bit of a fading dream. He ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Cave

Shaan McGhie

The hall closet was tall enough to stand in at the very front, but farther in it sloped smaller and smaller as the stairs above it descended. At about the point where an adult would be on all fours ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Short Fiction
 4 min

Self-Portrait with Side Effects

Lucas Thornton

Ten years from now, I will be thirty-one. I picture this future person as someone who clambers out of bed every morning, wearing only boxers. His joints are stiff, and his newly-wedded wife will hea ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 3 min

Tied Down

Maia Sichitiu

When Gary asked politely if she wanted him to tie her to the bedposts that night, Sybil politely declined. Polite, polite, polite - she was sick of it, the way he always asked when it was a nightly ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Timefang's Prowl

Renton Christensen

‘Getting old', Vyncor thought, ‘has been my worst decision yet'. He stretched and felt each of the gnarled knots of pain that ran through his back and neck, twisted up like tangled fishing lines. He ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

A New Resident to Darkness

Vanshika Ghai

"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."
― Rainer Maria Rilke

I sit in front of him watching him like the painting that hangs in a ...  [+]