Excerpt: Christine Eberle’s Finding God in Irreverence

September 17, 2018
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky And Jesus wept. — John 11:35 The young mother in the emergency room was rushed there…
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Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM: THE DYING CITY

September 9, 2018
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky Almost everything had been torn down, and the shrubs and trees had been growing for so…
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Excerpt: Sarah Iven’s Forest Therapy

August 31, 2018
Fall in Love Autumn is the season when the world mellows out and takes stock on what has already been…
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Excerpt: Rita Dragonette’s THE FOURTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER

August 30, 2018
Lottery Night They had decided they would all watch the lottery drawing at David’s dorm, since that’s where most of…
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Excerpt: NIGHTWOLF by Willie Davis

August 3, 2018
The Alaska Scam It started with a miracle.  It was a useless miracle, but it still counted as a jaw-dropper,…
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Excerpt: John McNally’s THE PROMISE OF FAILURE

July 27, 2018
THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN, REDUX DEPRESSION AND FAILURE By John McNally Writing a book saved my…
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Excerpt: Sarah Ward’s AESOP LAKE

July 24, 2018
Ricky’s chest moves up and down, but some­times his breath is uneven. His skin is cold and clammy. I need…
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Excerpt: Greg Olear’s Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia

July 19, 2018
Let’s begin with the lies—or, rather, with one lie, the same lie that was repeated time and time again. The…
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Big Family by Christine Sneed

June 11, 2018
She and Harold had seven children! How on earth had this happened? some of her friends, all with fewer or…
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Clammy Hands by Peter Ferry

June 5, 2018
What if your hands hadn’t been clammy that morning? What if you didn’t smoke so that the night before when…
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Excerpt From Erin Dorney’s I Am Not Famous Anymore

May 31, 2018
WHATEVER BRINGS ME CLOSER you               you               you you …
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Teaching Water How To Drown by Doro Boehme

May 23, 2018
“Have you had any prior testing done on the area being scanned today?” Since treatments started, Laika has come here…
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Visits by Gint Aras

May 17, 2018
WINTER It was quiet enough for Farem to hear the cigarette crackle as he smoked. The window was wide open…
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Awake by Gail Wallace Bozzano

May 15, 2018
I’m the reason we live at Grandma’s. Me, and Vasili. One early spring night Mom brought him home from the…
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Wheels by Garnett Kilberg Cohen

May 10, 2018
Ace Rivers leaned into the wind as he walked. He knew if he stood up straight, he would be blown…
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HYPERTEXT REVIEW EXCERPT

May 8, 2018
ICE DREAMS BY TONI NEALIE Andriy, gutting fish on the deck for Vira to fry for dinner, hears a plane’s…
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The 100-Year-Old Birthday Girl

May 3, 2018
  SCOTT ATKINSON The elf was at ease, completely comfortable. It made you wonder. I certainly wasn’t comfortable, not looking…
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HYPERTEXT REVIEW – FLASH FICTION

May 2, 2018
MARIA BY KATHLEEN QUIGLEY Maria stands inside the crumbling barn, dressed as if going on a date. Her dress gapes…
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The Clique Gospels by Shoshana Akabas

April 30, 2018
On what to do in physics lab when your lab partner / best friend / only friend dies. I’d been…
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Amazement by Anya Silver

April 19, 2018
I am cultivating amazement,an emotion I rarely catch anymore. Ilook around and marvel. Marvelous that my mother found a batch…
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