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Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky Originally published in PauletteLivers.com. As we settled into bed on the Sunday night after the January…
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Our Journey by Will Grant
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky My best friend Amber broke down in tears in a bar on election night. We sat…
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Roger The Dodger by Patricia Ann McNair
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have…
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A Call To Artists by Zoe Raines
The face of the revolution wears masks. Plastic masks with glittery swirls, Plague Doctor masks with the long Venetian beak-noses,…
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Same Boat by Ashley Sgro
Melissa has a canopied bed and a wooden floor. “You’re not this quiet at home, are you?” she asks. “No,”…
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Dream Girl by John McNally
There’s this girl I used to know. Or did I? It’s getting harder for me to distinguish my dream life…
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I Am Not Afraid by Patricia Ann McNair
Previously published on patriciaannmcnair.com You can do anything…Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. –Donald Trump I overheard…
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Intellectually Curious, Culturally Voracious, Politically Engaged, Self-Aware, Socially Concerned, Energetic, Erudite Female Seeks Same — or Better. by Jessica Peri Chalmers
I meet them one by one, the bachelors. I ask them to meet me at a nearby cafe. I come…
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Ladies Who Dine by Nadine Kenney Johnstone
We knew you. Before. Before the promotion, the guy, the condo, the kid. Before the lay off, the IVF. Before…
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Hypertext High School Writers Contest Creative Nonfiction Winners
After much anticipation, we are extremely proud to present the top three creative nonfiction placers in our Hypertext High School…
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Ira Glass Wants To Hit Me by Ben Tanzer
Excerpted From BE COOL, A Memoir (sort of) By Ben Tanzer I do not consider myself to be a stalker.…
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ExciteBike 64 by Nichole Rued
My mother gave the Nintendo to my cousins when I was in sixth grade after Christmas, when I got my…
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A Literary Innovator by Amy Crumbaugh
Imagine the quintessential French city nestled at the base of the French Alps, and it’s likely that the picture in…
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Herschel Street Playlist by Melaina K. de la Cruz
The house on Herschel Street never really belonged to me, but I liked to think that the yellow walls of…
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Collapsing Star by Lillian Ann Slugocki
The God light is a window, in a tall building, one block away. I fell in love with it in…
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Excerpt from Peggy Shinner’s You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
An Excerpt from “FAMILY FEET” 1 I have, according to a dubious assemblage of pundits, propagandists, and pseudo- scientists, Jewish…
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Excerpt From Jillian Lauren’s Everything You Ever Wanted
Prologue There are three kinds of daylight in Los Angeles. There is the midday light—flat and relentless. Usually partnered with…
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Hypertext Interview with Jessica Ceballos
By Paul Massignani Writ Large Press isn’t an indie press that prints a few books, sits back, and waits for…
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The End of Autumn by Virginia Ilda Baker
The last time I saw him, he was twisted up in my bedsheets. It was early, my bedroom was dark…
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Excerpt From Once I Was Cool:  Under Your Feet They Go On Growing by Megan Stielstra
In high school, a guy in my English class told me he was having recurring dreams about waking up as…
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