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Short Fiction
 2 min

The Hotel

Liza Craig

It's a weird thought, a strange feeling, cold and unsettling, like a dank wet basement illuminated by a single 40 watt light bulb swinging from an unknown force.
Your hands and palms sweat ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
 1 min

A Tree

Jessa Alfajardo

Amazing how a tree can grow so tall and big and strong
And live for hundred years long
From a ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

More than Revenge

Eugenia Trevino De Coss

Alice had just arrived in front of Sara’s house, knocking at her front door, hearing her conscience complain about what she did to her best friend and tears came down her face, as she had no idea what ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

Kulning

Sophie Cassidy

She woke with the birds and went where she pleased, when she pleased, and nobody gave a damn, and it was fantastic. No one gave her strange sideways glances. Nobody whispered when they saw her at the ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

Maturity

Alina Shin

You
are 18
Driver’s license in your pocket, Waiting
for the 6 balls to determine
You ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

On the Backs of Dragons

Percival Skalski

This is how the end begins:
Nearly twenty years and you can’t say you saw it coming. Browned hair and leathered shoes, he picked up his satchel of broken parts, long feet trudging down the side ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

Grass Carp

Jack Dean

I finish mowing the lawn and drive to your house. I make habits like this out of a summer that feels overgrown and unkempt otherwise. Each week: edge in the morning, mow in the afternoon, drive to ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 4 min

One Last Time

Ismarie Olmo

I don’t like to think of myself as a bad person; just someone who has made awful decisions. Someone who has had rotten luck for a long time. For years, I’ve been confined in a room with no people ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Home

Athena Kholin

Jannya remembers before the Growing.
Of course she does. It was only a year ago, and she’s been traveling ever since. She remembers traveling before, too, but always staying in Chicago, traveling ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Portrait Reflection  1 min

Almost

Lisa Christensen

For over four years I worked at a newspaper in Tooele County, a rural desert county in Utah. I had a coworker once say the county is a collection of almosts—it could be almost a fantastic hiking ...  [+]