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All The Secrets Of The Universe

Janet Frishberg -

Before I believed Sam could change my life with his hands and attention, before Aunt Linda’s funeral, before any of it, I was technically just...

The Guest

Jennie Melamed -

She arrives on May 26th. A Monday. After all the days on my real calendar were crossed off, I made myself a new one. Nothing fancy,...

Past Lives

Aysegul Savas -

My husband asked it first, one evening before going to bed. “Do you think we knew each other in our past life?” “No,” I said. “No,...

The Boy Band

Wesley Cohen -

The boy band moves like happy sexy machines. Trent lifts his hands over his head like he’s blocking so many beach balls. Rex snaps his...

Sleepwalker

Anne-Marie Kinney -

His girlfriend had been a sleepwalker when he met her. She’d warned him after they’d been on a few dates, when he asked her back...

Zero Hour

Steph Wong Ken -

A transfer student from another Catholic high school, Rose McCraig liked to talk about the sickly saints, the holy anorexics who starved themselves for God. “St. Maria...

Your Body Is Not A Lemon

Chelsea Bieker -

1 The summer runs through us. My cousin Lyle, a few years older. Me, about to enter high school. We go to the shed when...

The Tiger Stand

Hunter Gagnon -

-he in the booth sits with his apple-round back hunched over the booklet – he is studying up – to impress...

Orcas Terminal

Marcelle Heath -

We were at the ferry terminal when the explosion went off. My spouse and I were on an anniversary trip to explore the San Juan...

Doreen

Margaret Adams -

“There are a few things that Dr. Conrad wants to talk to you about,” the office assistant had told Doreen on the phone, and Doreen...