Scenes from the Corporate Life by Fred Skolnik
March 27, 2015
From the wedding A. remembered mostly the food, which he ate heedlessly while Libby strolled around chatting with guests. Libby…
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A Trip to the Falls by Corey Mesler
March 13, 2015
“His mother had told him a trip was a fall…” — Neil Young This is the Best Part of the…
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Excerpt from The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin
February 19, 2015
Chapter 1 EUREKA, CALIFORNIA, 1998 When Gabriel returned to me, I was twenty-one, and I was in the middle of…
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Abstract Faces by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
February 17, 2015
Read “Abstract Faces” in Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s “Swarm to Glory” available from Wiseblood Books. After Greg’s arrest, I searched my…
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Excerpt from Sister Golden Hair by Darcey Steinke
February 3, 2015
CHAPTER ONE Sandy The Vagabond Motor Lodge sat across the street from the Fiji Island restaurant, wedged between Johnny’s Auto…
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Excerpt from Sheree Greer’s Let the Lover Be
September 12, 2014
Chapter One Friday Stay awake this time. Stay awake this time. Stay awake this time. Kiana said it to herself like…
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Excerpt from René Steinke’s Friendswood
August 26, 2014
By René Steinke It was sunny again for the first time in days, and light mirrored off all the wet…
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Excerpt From Once I Was Cool:  Under Your Feet They Go On Growing by Megan Stielstra
August 25, 2014
In high school, a guy in my English class told me he was having recurring dreams about waking up as…
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Excerpt from Tyrannosaurus Rexia by Susan L. Lin
April 28, 2014
Apertures Colby Keiser was thirteen years old when he saw the man with the handlebar mustache again, re-emerged in the…
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Excerpt from Confessions of a Communist Youth by Beatrix Büdy
April 22, 2014
I love darkness, especially in unknown places. I feel free in it. But hush! Don’t tell anybody. My private thoughts…
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Excerpt from Humboldt: Or, The Power of Positive Thinking by Scott Navicky
March 7, 2014
I How Humboldt was brought up on a beautiful farm in Ohio & how he was driven away Once upon…
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Excerpt from Eric Charles May’s Bedrock Faith
March 5, 2014
CHAPTER TWO Neighbors on the Block Weigh In “Maybe prison finally taught him a lesson.” “Who do you know ever…
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Excerpt from The Tragedy of Fidel Castro by João Cerqueira
March 3, 2014
Colorful colonial mansions, flaunted arches, verandas, and balustrades. Abandoned houses bombarded by time. Impervious concrete blocks. Buses crammed full of…
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Excerpt from Mason Johnson’s Sad Robot Stories
January 18, 2014
“Robot,” Sally always greeted Robot as his bulky, copper-colored body stood on the stoop of her home. “You don’t need…
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Excerpt From Chris Terry’s Zero Fade
January 15, 2014
Those Guesses My legs were pins and needles. I walked into the girls’ clothing store, fingering the folded-up ten in…
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