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Boat Building

Cory Mimms -

George watched a little red-brown spider build a web in the bushes. He sat on the porch stoop; fat pollen drifted...

Too Much is Never Enough

Genevieve Hudson -

When I was young I had a reoccurring dream that I was a boy. The dream was so sweet. It was like licking sugar off...

The Wallaby

Corinne Manning -

My farmer neighbor asked me if I wanted to meet his wallaby. I’d just moved to the land adjacent his property and was working all...

T-Rex

Susan Berman -

Veronica sits in the meager shade of a bush in the Van Nuys World War II Memorial Park. Her fellow contestants stand behind a portable...

Tides

Kirsten Kearse -

It starts at dinner one night. She’s been home with the children all day (because it is summer; and because they decided early on that...

Ache

Bowie Rowan -

On evenings she didn’t have to work, Ruth locked her bedroom door and masturbated to distract herself from the ache, rotating through the collection of vintage...

Failed Fetish

Niko Sonnberger -

My first time was with a fork. I know: such a cliche. I spent an hour nervously scanning the silverware with...

Frightland

Mary Breaden -

See, I had this vision in my head of a much cleaner life than this...

Palm

Natali Petricic -

There is a knock at the door. I leave the comfort of warm sheets, place feet into thin-soled slippers. When I open the door, a steaming...

Absentees

Kenny Kelly -

Already, the drunk optimism of December is gone. The wind sighs as if to say, I’ve already been as good as I’ll ever be. This...