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Halloween

Myles Zavelo -

1. Can majorly complicate things. Last night was no exception. My knees were no exception. My knees were shaking. I was shaking. Things were...

I Saw A Wounded Eagle Woman Eating Clouds

Olga García Echeverría -

for tatiana de la tierra I’m watching the nurse clean Wounded Eagle Woman’s arm. The gash, which extends from her armpit down to the bend...

Herbs

Ysabelle Cheung -

A body, a rock, a towel, a plastic starfish, wet sand on her calves: she catalogues these things slowly. God, I’m old she thinks to...

Vacancy

Andrea Jurjević -

The typing in the back room thundered pompously. I met Mona in this exchange office in St. Vitus eighteen months ago. I had just...

Bodies of Water

Rachel Calnek-Sugin -

The day we met, we died. I have to start there. Or Flora said she died, and I said, Me too. Pretty much whatever...

Private Viewing Mode

Nabeel Chollampat -

“I just think it’s best,” Alana said, convincingly, “if all companies retired their consumption of single-use plastics.”Damn. She got to that one first. She...

Artist Alley

Michael Magnes -

The convention center was full of the Sunday blues on the last day of Rose City Comic-Con. Saturday night bar-con engulfed comic industry professionals...

Friend Code

Sean James Fitzpatrick -

A bit ago I was reaching down the storm drain like a freak, checking over my shoulder but not because I was worried a...

Maybe You Were in the Plot

Charles Blackstone -

December 3, 1995 Even though she’d only been at college in Connecticut for a few months, Julianne could already tell which phone calls were ones...

Maggie in the Mills

David Moloney -

Erin only left for Indo-Burma two days ago, but it feels longer, and Maggie is fixated on counting the time until her return. Twelve...