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Short Fiction
 1 min

Reina, Who Sees Cars

Ada Cruz

There are no cars, you’re only imagining, her husband scolds. Just go a little slower, Reina wants to say, but she knows it is not a woman’s place to say such bold things. He knows what he’s doing ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

Social Distance

Finna Chen

Loneliness.
You didn’t expect it to come at all.
You liked it at first—you were finally alone! You could finally catch up on your hundred hours of missed sleep. You no longer needed to stress ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

End of Time

Kiran Wheeler

Unfortunately, time has stopped.
This may surprise you, because time is seemingly omnipresent and has governed our lives for so long, but the thing about time is that it’s completely arbitrary ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

A Lovely Afternoon

Jacob Rutzick

Rick hadn’t figured out what he was going to do on this date. He had been building up the courage to ask her out for weeks and weeks, and he had always thought that the details of the night would fall ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

The Laundromat on Colley Avenue

Rachel Smith

A man wearing a short, black hat sits on the same bench as me. I sit on one end, and he sits on the other. The bench lines the long, tall widows that face the small parking lot attached to the ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 4 min

Stevik's Ark

McKinley Sprinkle

The giant machine was almost empty, and had been that way for the last three centuries. When the man had found it, slowly sinking into the lazy sand of the trackless wastes of the Gobi, it had already ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Thorns on a Black Rose

Zanthia Berube

It all started on the first day of school, Gunther was a new student at Windcastle High. He wasn’t your typical teenage boy; he perceived the world “differently.” He first saw her when he accidentally ...  [+]
Poetry