Browsing Category Fiction & Poetry

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  Poems

  At your bedside

  Asleep in this bleached place, a separate world

  By Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
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  Fiction

  The Blue Tiger

  "She guessed that’s what love was--making each other feel bad on purpose and then being sorry about it."

  By Rhianna Reinmuth
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  Poems

  Four Poems

  We felt dangerous // like cowboys trying to swagger with legs / wrapped up in garbage bags and electrical tape / to keep out the ice-melt. The road

  By Hilary Vaughn Dobel
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  Fiction

  Technology

  "Without the benefit of the diagram, you might just start clapping, creating tiny explosions that spread myriad pustules of anti-bacterial hand soap all over..."

  By Doug Weaver
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  Poems

  Three Miley Cyrus Poems

  Throw a ring, win a fish. I have so much to say / about wild animals.

  By Talin Tahajian
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  Fiction

  In Flagrante Delicto

  "What would it be like to fuck a man who finds such horrors beautiful?"

  By Jonathan Papernick
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  Poems

  The Cake

  and your mother comes to visit / and she says honey you look so / thin you thin thing / you thin wet thing

  By Krystin Gollihue
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  Fiction

  How to Clean a Dollhouse

  "The child-sized foundation will shudder at the feel of your fingertips on its spine."

  By Betty Capot
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  Poems

  Three Poems

  it’s almost too late / I keep thinking but / for what I’m not sure / having woken repeatedly / in the night with / the pitiful coughing

  By MRB Chelko
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  Fiction

  Where Things Are Made

  "Hopefully, his new girlfriend’s towels were cheap and smelled of mildew."

  By Tera Joy Cole
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  Poems

  Five Poems

  On the seat behind her an old woman tells the story of her long affair with a man named Vidic. He’s dead now. The man from somewhere else.

  By Elizabeth Clark Wessel
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  Fiction

  Beating

  "Betty worried what type of conversations and memories might have bubbled to the surface in a bar in the hands of her stoic husband."

  By Joe Ponce