Excerpt of Jenny Forrester’s NARROW RIVER, WIDE SKY

May 9, 2017
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky Chapter Four: A Familiar Kind of Forgiveness BY JENNY FORRESTER In Mancos, the ’70s arrived later.…
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Excerpt from NEON GREEN

January 12, 2017
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky By Margaret Wappler When the spaceship landed in the backyard at exactly 8:57 p.m. on August…
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Excerpt from Jaimee Wriston Colbert’s WILD THINGS

November 9, 2016
Previously published in Natural Bridge Erosion 2008 Marty the shoes guy assures me he likes it rough. So hit me!…
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Excerpt From THE MONSTER’S DAUGHTER by Michelle Pretorius

November 3, 2016
Alet’s mind was still reeling from what Koch had told her as she pulled up to Mathebe’s house later that…
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ONE QUESTION: Michelle Pretorius

November 1, 2016
HYPERTEXT is launching ONE QUESTION. It’s a mini-interview series where authors consider this: “What question do you wish you’d been…
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Ira Glass Wants To Hit Me by Ben Tanzer

October 6, 2016
Excerpted From BE COOL, A Memoir (sort of) By Ben Tanzer I do not consider myself to be a stalker.…
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NO JUSTICE! by Judith C. Handschuh

September 2, 2016
Chapter 1 Chicago, Illinois, January, 1993 They’re all here looking for justice, and if even one of them finds it,…
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The Disappearing Girl by Desiree Cooper

July 18, 2016
My minivan churns impatiently as I wait in the long queue. Up ahead, it’s easy to spot my daughter in…
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Excerpt from Ruth Galm’s Novel Into the Valley

July 12, 2016
By Ruth Galm She had been in San Francisco two years. It was not the weather that had drawn her;…
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Excerpt from Tiffany Gholar’s A Bitter Pill to Swallow

May 23, 2016
Chapter 1: A Reason to Die Devante knew he couldn’t tell her the truth when his mother asked, “Are you…
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Excerpt from Suzanne Hyman’s Best Friends Tell Each Other Everything

May 13, 2016
You confess your deepest darkest secret to Hillary You don’t really remember how you two became friends again, but you…
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The Look of Love, Take Two by Ben Tanzer

February 26, 2016
It is late. The sky is meringue. The dress is retro. The hair, which is sometimes highlighted and sometimes shaggy,…
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Excerpt From Sarah Xerta’s Nothing To Do With Me

November 26, 2015
CRUSH Today I’m not crushing on you. Handfuls of blue skyspill out of my pockets and I let them, leaving…
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Excerpt from Bottom of the Ninth by Wyl Villacres

November 4, 2015
BY WYL VILLACRES “4-6” Some facts about my father: -My dad grew up reading poetry, writing down his favorites by…
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Excerpt from Joe Meno’s Marvel and a Wonder

October 29, 2015
By Joe Meno The boy was still asleep at seven. The grandfather went downstairs, buttered some toast, ate, then puttered…
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Excerpt from Christine Sneed’s Paris, He Said

October 7, 2015
Chapter 1  Flight  As Jayne made final preparations to leave New York for Paris during the first few days of…
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Excerpt from Peggy Shinner’s You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body

September 9, 2015
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

July 2, 2015
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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Paige, an Excerpt from Wedgewood by Emily Kathryn Utter

June 4, 2015
Paige sat up in bed, threw the duvet off her legs, and marched down the hall to the bathroom for…
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Excerpt from Memphis Movie by Corey Mesler

April 17, 2015
38. Eric came home to an empty house. He was too tired to worry about where his paramour was sleeping…
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