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A Safe Place
The Memory: His father thought it a swell idea to summit a ridge…
November 29, 2024 standard
17 Birds of North America and 1 Bird From Someplace Else
Summer 2020 American crow, American coot, American black duck,American bittern.American white pelican. Black…
November 29, 2024 standard
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be the stubborn mothbouncing off the amber streetlamp, punching thruthe plunging raindrops like…
November 29, 2024 standard
Antenatal
“But I mean, it’s fine.” Eric nursed his pride and fidgeted with his…
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Studiers of Stone
A day in April stabbed into the high 80s, sending Brooklynites to their…
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Head Light
He worked at the lighthouse every day except Monday, the day it was…
November 29, 2024 standard
Artist’s Statement — Amanda Thorpe
When I go out, it is not necessarily with an objective to photograph,…
November 28, 2024 standard
Scorpion Season
This was back when the Greek was still sleeping in his car. The…
November 28, 2024 standard
Ella’s Oranges
The LoviOne box had been pried open a week ago, yet its contents…
November 28, 2024 standard
Northwestern
Two words defined a good time on Friday nights during the long, cold…
November 28, 2024 standard
Four Poems
Crooked House A houseguest deathwish holds me hostage.I buzz among misaligned porchrailings, cracks…
November 28, 2024 standard
A Paper Koan
Usually, I keep the envelope hidden in the desk in my den. I…
November 28, 2024 standard
Fade to Red
The cast members are celebrating their final performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie at a nearby…
November 28, 2024 standard
Reflecting Machine
I’m not sleeping well. I work construction at night. Highways. To motorists, I’m…
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Malingerer
It is 2017 and he has preferences. Arrive twenty-five minutes early. First showing…
November 28, 2024 standard
Candy
When you were a child, you loved Halloween. The autumn and Halloween were…
November 27, 2024 standard
The Entirely Avoidable Tragedy at the Nat King Cole Post Office in Los Angeles, California, 2022
Candace was not in the right state of mind. This much she knew….
November 27, 2024 standard
Men Are Visual and Central Part
Men Are Visual Men are visualWomen are relationalIt is difficult for a manto…
November 27, 2024 standard
If I Were A Carpenter
Shelley sat across from the fully grown man on the white couch in…
November 27, 2024 standard
Hold, Buy, Sell
I am sitting in my car parked across the street from my father’s…
November 27, 2024 standard