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April 18, 2018
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky WORK IS WHAT IT IS (FOR PHILIP LEVINE) BY NIC CUSTER   Work is when and…
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Covey by Natasha Mijares

April 17, 2018
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky A family of tickings whirin white strata.Bellies wet and buoyant,backs dry and dawdling. What do we…
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Everything I Did That Day by Re’Lynn Hansen

April 13, 2018
Dear Rena. I know you will understand this letter because it is about everything. It’s homage to our talks—which are…
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Merchant Marine by Garin Cycholl

April 11, 2018
I’d have gone to sea. At twelve years old, I got an itch to head east as soon as I…
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On Getting Straight Answers by Eileen Favorite

April 10, 2018
The students depart in vans, Checker cabs, short yellow buses, and limousines. A forty-mile radius is their domain—leafy Palos Hills,…
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Elevator to Curaçao by Lasher Lane

April 9, 2018
When I first met Sara, she stood face to face before me, asking what was stuck to the front of…
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EXCERPT: Cubsessions Interview With Joe Mantegna

March 28, 2018
Cubsessions co-editors Becky Sarwate and Randy Richardson interview Joe Mantegna. Sometimes, the tensions of a particularly close and important baseball…
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Excerpt: THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH by Lynn Sloan

March 2, 2018
LOST AND FOUND “Lauren, you must be joking,” Dallas said. “You can’t let Frannie simply exit with no fanfare. We…
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Excerpt: Joe Ponepinto’s MR. NEUTRON

March 1, 2018
Chapter One He stood in the niche of a wall in the back of the room, safe and unobserved, observing…
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Excerpt From: Vincent Chu’s LIKE A CHAMPION

February 28, 2018
Star of the World It was toilet-seat-sticks-to-your-ass kind of weather and Hal wasn’t having it. He left the bathroom window…
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Excerpt: Douglas Light’s WHERE NIGHT STOPS

February 13, 2018
The bartender sets a new drink before her. She hits the fresh drink hard, taking most of it down in…
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Excerpt of Giano Cromley’s WHAT WE BUILD UPON THE RUINS

November 22, 2017
LING Chuck’s mother was beached on the living room couch. Her black hair was a tangled mess of seaweed draped across…
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Excerpt of Alex Behr’s PLANET GRIM

October 12, 2017
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father I get a ride with Ann-Marie—my mother-in-law. She turns left from the road into Golden…
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Excerpt: Travels And Travails Of Small Minds by Daniel Falatko

October 4, 2017
SLAVA. This is the word that every Russian ex-military member or former prisoner has tattooed somewhere on their pale, muscled…
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Excerpt of Steve McEllistrem’s THE DEVEREAUX DEITY

July 11, 2017
Chapter 6 BY STEVE MCELLISTREM Jeremiah studied Curtik. The boy had grown so much in the past year, and yet…
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Excerpt from Old Heart by Peter Ferry

June 30, 2017
MAN EIGHTY-FIVE RUNS AWAY FROM HOME Tom Johnson looked at the broken front seat of the big taxi through the…
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Excerpt of Tom Stern’s MY VANISHING TWIN

June 19, 2017
It seemed to Walter Braum there were but a few defining moments in a life, the rest of one’s time…
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Excerpt from Paul Cohen’s THE GLAMSHACK

June 15, 2017
How Wars Escalate April 25, 1999 General George Armstrong Custer separates from his regiment and rides a hundred miles through…
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Excerpt of Nadine Kenney Johnstone’s OF THIS MUCH I’M SURE

May 22, 2017
BY NADINE KENNEY JOHNSTONE After calling the university and asking for more time off, I hear a knock at the…
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Excerpt of Gerald Brennan’s ISLAND OF CLOUDS

May 18, 2017
Cocoa Beach Interlude BY GERALD BRENNAN It’s late 1977, a couple weeks before launch, and we’re at the Cape, at…
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