Racism by Pablo Brescia
September 23, 2019
In a newspaper photographan Indian from Boliviacries.They killed her husband;he was guilty,or maybe not.The Indian from Bolivialives in Buenos Airesor…
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A Pernicious Detour by Pablo Brescia
September 23, 2019
This phrase comes fromJosé Revueltas.He meansthat languageis time wasted;that to speak isto delay the inevitable;that to write is even worsethan…
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Prose to the Silent Conscious Man by Rashaun J. Allen
September 20, 2019
1. I don’t know how to reach you, since when you speak in person or through social media, you are…
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A Spaceship Named Respect by Rashaun J. Allen
September 20, 2019
Sometimes I want to fly away in a spaceshipleave for Mars on the first flight out of JFKwhere my chance…
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He Says by Patricia Ann McNair
September 17, 2019
He says: Both sides. Both sides. He says: It’s not the guns (they shout: THE CONSTITUTION) And Sick sick people…
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Trust Fall by Jennifer Steele
September 13, 2019
On a summer night along the CT Riverwhere we are stealing timefrom the curfew of a parkwhere no one but…
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Memory Book by Kate Gray
September 11, 2019
Turn each page packed with cluesof Paris, Swiss Air, grandkids, upstairs,only then she remembers. At noon boozemixes with Coumadin, Ambien,…
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For the Student Whose Lines Stopped the Class by Kate Gray
September 11, 2019
~After reading William Stafford’s “Lines to Stop Talking By” You wanted to find Always,the mirror inside a water drophanging pine…
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Drought by Kate Gray
September 11, 2019
~for my brothers The sunrise isa bruise, welcomelike a purpled eye if it relieves a childof secrets. No rainfor weeks,the…
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To the Moon and Back by Tina Jenkins Bell
September 9, 2019
Streets full of people, all alone Roads full of houses, never home A church full of singing, out of tune…
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Siblings by Toti O’Brien
September 6, 2019
Please. I want my innocence back. Whatever it costs. I did not lose it in my room when the call…
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Orphans by Christy Stillwell
September 4, 2019
During the service, Josh suffered. His wool jacket was fine for Denver summers but not Nashville in August. Under the…
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The Problem of Your Scent by Courtney Carliss Young
September 3, 2019
Excerpt from the novella I Surrender It was our sixteenth birthday, and all I wanted was a slice of yellow…
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Bleeding Below the San Gabriel Dam by Bryan Lindsey
August 29, 2019
A smoky ribbon of blood, diffused in water and flowing downstream, looks like enough loss to kill you. Mine was…
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One Question: Alex Poppe
August 28, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Alex Poppe, author of Moxie, “Would Jax be the lover or the beloved?” Moxie started as a response…
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Excerpt: Alex Poppe’s MOXIE
August 28, 2019
By Alex Poppe As I hang up, a Mexican delivery boy plops a paper bag on the bar in front…
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Living the Dream (in Two Parts) by Douglas McBride
August 27, 2019
Part One: Six Months In Six months in, I’m the only new hire who hasn’t quit yet. I’m feeling pretty…
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Focal Point by Felicia Schneiderhan
August 23, 2019
Opening weekend. For ten years, Sharon had come out for opening weekend, the official start to the family’s cabin season.…
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Skull Tastes Like by Maggie Goscinski
August 20, 2019
The sound of the radio on in the kitchen. My brothers in the backyard. Sunlight lighting the living room. My…
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One Question: Robert Krut
August 19, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Robert Krut, author of The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire, “Is your new collection a…
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Excerpt: Robert Krut’s THE NOW DARK SKY, SETTING US ALL ON FIRE
August 19, 2019
By Robert Krut DIVINITY Virus-blind, you stumble to an alley, under a lentil rainstorm, a preacher waves rudder arms to…
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Cat’s Kiss by Alison Thompson
August 19, 2019
1. There’s a man looking out at his garden. The front garden. His garden. A youngish man, not much above…
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The Cowboy’s Wife by Martha Stallman
August 14, 2019
Suzie took another drag on her cigarette and looked at Elise through the rearview mirror; they’d just met, and she…
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Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit by Morgan Smith
August 13, 2019
Trees can bear scars too. Dark, puckered with sap and pitch, botched attempts by an axe or the vaguely violent…
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Suspended Between Stars by Emily Roth
August 7, 2019
Third Place—2019 First Annual Short Story Contest “Tell us about camp,” Stephen said, turning to Heather after a lull in…
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The Breatharians by Sophie Stein
August 5, 2019
Second Place—2019 first annual short story contest When we go to get in the car after we bury him, he’s…
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It’s Hard to Meet Someone at the Bottom of the World by Anita Levin
August 2, 2019
WC: 1904 The female anglerfish’s teeth are so big she can’t close her mouth. She wears a long bright light…
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Twelve Anecdotes in Search of a Manifesto by Michele Morano
July 31, 2019
1. When she was six years old, Virginia Woolf’s older half-brother would set her up on a windowsill and poke…
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My Brothers and the Moon by Katey Schultz
July 29, 2019
FIRST PLACE—2019 FIRST ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST It’s Tuesday afternoon, late summer, and my two younger brothers are making a…
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Don’t Blame The Bunny by Patricia Ann McNair
July 24, 2019
Let’s consider the video. A bevy of young women in short things and tight tops, heels and big hair and…
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