Category: Short Fiction

We All Feed the Motherwood

Anastasia K. Elliott December 29, 2024

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The Siren Sings of Sandcastles

Gideon P. Smith November 27, 2024

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The Pancake House at the End of the World

L.M. Guay November 11, 2024

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Skittering Within

Kelsea Yu November 4, 2024

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Estelle

Carol Duncan October 28, 2024

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BREAD OF LIFE

Katherine Frain October 26, 2024

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Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City

Madeehah Reza October 21, 2024

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The Noodle Truck

C. A. Kane October 3, 2024

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Bambalouni

Timbray Shafer August 30, 2024

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ROSEWATER, CLINGING TO THE TONGUE

Leah Ning August 7, 2024

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The Ethereal Nature of Superpowers

Marie Croke August 2, 2024

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Melting Point

Cass Wilkinson Saldaña August 1, 2024

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Like a Fly Clasped in a Hand

Nadav Schul-Kutas July 25, 2024

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Another Old Country

Nadia Radovich July 18, 2024

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Our Last Communion

Taylor Reed July 7, 2024

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Soul Storm

Angelique Fawns June 3, 2024

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The Sun Never Sets in Our Country

Abhishek Sengupta May 8, 2024

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The Devil Wears Skin

Tyler Sookralli May 3, 2024

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Darnsworth Products

RSL May 2, 2024

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The Other Sky

Heather Child April 25, 2024

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In the Loams of Hope

Jorja Osha April 19, 2024

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I Saved The Crust For You, My Dear

S W Holmes April 3, 2024

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Kompot Made on an Alien Planet

J. Kosakowski March 3, 2024

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Everything, Nothing At All, and All That’s In Between

Rebecca Treasure February 12, 2024

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A Proper Vessel, A Perfect House

Ash Huang February 5, 2024

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Sriracha Visions

D.A. Xiaolin Spires February 3, 2024

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Bringing Down The Neighborhood

Bernard McGhee January 29, 2024

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The Plague Collector

Tom Okafor January 22, 2024

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The City and the Styrofoam Sea

Mar Vincent January 17, 2024

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Real

Charlotte Leinbach January 1, 2024

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Viewhouse

Laura Barker January 1, 2024

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Everyone Must Have a Calling

Manisha Sahoo December 6, 2023

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Vessels and Warnings

Gabrielle Emem Harry November 6, 2023

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For Everything, a Price

Casey Woolfolk October 31, 2023

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An Unraveling

K.S. Walker October 30, 2023

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Crabgrass in October

Elana Sichrovsky October 23, 2023

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Hunt

A.D. Sui October 16, 2023

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I Am Lightning, Flashing Through the Frozen Sand

Akis Linardos October 5, 2023

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Welcome to…

Jennifer R. Povey September 11, 2023

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Lupus in Fabula

Briar Ripley Page August 7, 2023

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Siren Song

Mia Xuan August 6, 2023

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Unit Six: Intro to Manticores

Louis Inglis Hall July 31, 2023

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The Greenhorn

Taylor Rae July 24, 2023

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The Fall of Esther Park

Lynn D. Jung July 17, 2023

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Twenty-five Years Ago Today

H.L. Fullerton July 5, 2023

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Zone Cook Mechanism

Oli Johns June 5, 2023

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We Interrupt This Program

Taryn Frazier June 5, 2023

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A Catalog of Gifts from a Crow

Jo Miles May 8, 2023

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Just the Two of You

Laura Barker May 4, 2023

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The Sea Hare

Wailana Kalama May 1, 2023

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Paper Teeth

Mare Knaupp April 24, 2023

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Through the Glass, a Full Sea

P.H. Low April 17, 2023

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In Her Wake

Elis Montgomery April 4, 2023

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Clonely Hearts Club

Marie Pabelonio March 6, 2023

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Soulbirds

Sylvia Heike February 6, 2023

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The Treachery of Objects

Dylan Kingsley January 31, 2023

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Luis, the Last Time

Rachel Lastra January 30, 2023

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The Bones Are Hungry

Joshua Jones Lofflin January 23, 2023

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Oh Jackie

Wess Mongo Jolley January 16, 2023

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The Pruner

M Leigh December 29, 2022

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The Witch’s Hat

Joy Weimer November 30, 2022

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Wing/Flower

Endria Isa Richardson November 7, 2022

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Solo le quedaron ocho

elena félix November 3, 2022

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Then there were eight

elena félix November 3, 2022

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A, B, B, A

Russell Nichols October 31, 2022

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Ajar

Coby Rosser October 26, 2022

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Entre cráteres, nosotros

Ana Hurtado October 24, 2022

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The Hungry Tree

Auden Patrick October 17, 2022

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The Plain

L.M. Guay September 28, 2022

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Miasma

Shannon Massey August 29, 2022

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INFINITE CLAY-TABLET MEMORIES SUNG INTO THE FLESH OF THE WORLD

Ann LeBlanc August 4, 2022

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Just One Death

Matt Richardson August 1, 2022

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The Navigator

Alicia Haberski July 27, 2022

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Heart-Eater

Tania Chen July 25, 2022

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A Personal Apocalypse

Léon Othenin-Girard July 18, 2022

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The Exclusion Clause in the Small Print of Life

Tim Hickson June 29, 2022

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Incunabulum Absurdum

Coby Rosser May 24, 2022

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The Grief Portal

Aun-Juli Riddle May 5, 2022

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Hitchhiker

Lindz McLeod May 2, 2022

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You Were Not Made For This

Spencer Nitkey April 27, 2022

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A Spring Divine

Armaan Kapur April 25, 2022

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Six Steps to Become a Saint

Avi Burton April 18, 2022

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Letters from Roger

Emily Sanders March 28, 2022

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I lack a sense of direction on some spatial coordinates

Lucy Zhang February 24, 2022

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The Goblins of South India

Naethan Pais February 3, 2022

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She Calls

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas January 31, 2022

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The Impossible Task of Bringing Water

Amanda Cook January 26, 2022

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Tea and Owls

Teresa Milbrodt January 24, 2022

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Silver Bells

Jaime Marvin January 17, 2022

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Knowing How to Listen

Carter Lappin December 28, 2021

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Bee Kept

Jordan Hirsch November 29, 2021

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Lavender, Juniper, Gunpowder, Smoke

Alyson Grauer November 8, 2021

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Feudal Superstition

Yiwen Bu November 4, 2021

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Cocoon

Atreyee Gupta November 1, 2021

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After the Salt

Nicole Tan October 27, 2021

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A Home for the Hungry Tide

Alexandra Singer October 25, 2021

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Flock of Words and Wonder

Marie Croke October 18, 2021

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A Price on Her Head

Marilee Dahlman September 28, 2021

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Ka-thump

Jennifer R. Povey August 26, 2021

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I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself

Kel Coleman August 5, 2021

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She Dreams in Bronze

Sylvia Ho August 2, 2021

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Fruit and Claw

Shelby Dollar July 28, 2021

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The Godmaker’s Cure

December Cuccaro July 26, 2021

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Mushroom Head

Marla Bingcang July 19, 2021

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THE THINGS REFLECTIONS SAY

Jamie Perrault June 29, 2021

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The Swamp Exchange

Laura Barker May 6, 2021

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Watcher, Worker

Rona Fernandez April 29, 2021

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Madame of the Vein

Anna Madden April 28, 2021

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Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse

M.L. Krishnan April 26, 2021

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Queen Minnie’s Last Ride

Aimee Ogden April 19, 2021

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That Crimson Flight

Sadie Fox Curtis March 25, 2021

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Redlands

Jay Harper February 15, 2021

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Never Just a Necklace

Ashland East February 11, 2021

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Shark Girls

Caroline Diorio February 8, 2021

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Honey and Mneme

Marika Bailey February 1, 2021

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With the Nectar Comes the Sting

Jennifer Hudak January 25, 2021

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Commodities

Zebib K.A. January 18, 2021

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The Last Bookseller of Saint Paul

Jordan Hirsch December 29, 2020

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Shattered Moon, Hungry Sea

Elou Carroll November 24, 2020

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The Gorgon’s Epitaphist

KT Bryski November 5, 2020

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A Bird Always Wants More Mangoes

Maria Dong November 2, 2020

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Living Ghosts

Taylor Rae October 28, 2020

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Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise

Lauren Ring October 26, 2020

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You Do What You’re Told

J.A.W. McCarthy October 19, 2020

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The Banquet

Lindy Biller September 24, 2020

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At Night, The Old Mothers Come

Ana Gardner August 26, 2020

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Once Upon a Night

Sam Muller August 4, 2020

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Saying Sorry

Rebecca Fung July 30, 2020

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The Truth of a Lie

Jeff Reynolds July 23, 2020

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Black Bird’s Song

Tamoha Sengupta July 22, 2020

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The Limits of Magic

Samantha Mills July 16, 2020

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Hummingbird

Laura Barker June 25, 2020

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53:09:41

Breanna Teramoto May 21, 2020

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The Order of Stolen Hearts

Xan van Rooyen May 5, 2020

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What the Water Gave Her

Avra Margariti April 30, 2020

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Grief Trawling

Suzanne J. Willis April 29, 2020

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Possible Human Hearts

Lyndsie Manusos April 23, 2020

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The Bear Wife

Leah Bobet April 16, 2020

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Bird Bath

Meredith Maloof April 2, 2020

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Mold

Marcella Haddad February 27, 2020

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You Can Check Out Any Time You Like

Rhonda Eikamp February 3, 2020

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The Red Scarf

M. Kaur January 29, 2020

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One Song Ending

E.A. Petricone January 27, 2020

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Passavanti’s Fantasima

Julia August January 23, 2020

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The Redoubtables

Premee Mohamed January 16, 2020

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100% True

Emma Levin December 26, 2019

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The Hunter Speaks His Name

Dmitri Christopher November 27, 2019

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A Gentler Sky

Amelia Sirina November 4, 2019

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A Word for What We Have

Jennifer Hudak October 31, 2019

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Paula

H. Pueyo October 30, 2019

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An Account of the Defeat of Earth’s Conqueror

Adam Lee Weatherford October 24, 2019

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Ilyas’ Egg

Sameem Siddiqui October 17, 2019

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Black Magic

Gomezyani Morton Msiska September 26, 2019

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The Wolf of Pendarvis

Genevieve Sinha August 5, 2019

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Our Roots Devour

Lora Gray July 29, 2019

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Seeking Same

H.E. Casson July 24, 2019

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His Heart is the Haunted House

Aimee Ogden July 22, 2019

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Dead Meat

Maria Haskins July 18, 2019

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Catch a Star

Avra Margariti June 20, 2019

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Ammi’s Broken Vase

Sameem Siddiqui May 22, 2019

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Sasha’s Pattern, Sonia’s Edge

Katherine Quevedo May 13, 2019

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Juliet Silver and the Sea of Prosperity

Wendy Nikel May 6, 2019

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The Hermes VII

Donna J.W. Munro April 29, 2019

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eLon-4 Breaks A Mirror

Aurelius Raines II April 22, 2019

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The Last

Premee Mohamed April 18, 2019

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Strangers in the House

Joshua Grasso March 18, 2019

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Paper Dragonfly, Paper Mountain

Christi Nogle February 21, 2019

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Who Defies the Watcher

Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga February 4, 2019

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Grey Evergreen

Marlena Evans January 28, 2019

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Honor Bright

Erin Hendel January 23, 2019

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Hearts Made Marble, Weapons Shaped From Bone

A.J. Fitzwater January 21, 2019

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In Silence, I’ll Sing

Laura O'Brien January 17, 2019

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A Woman’s Voice

Bo Balder December 20, 2018

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Twenty Minutes Starting Now

Jaq Evans November 26, 2018

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The Provenance of Hunger

Emma Miller November 8, 2018

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Roy Reschedules with Death

Karen Heslop November 1, 2018

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If You Require Assistance

Chloie Piveral October 29, 2018

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Carnelian Rage

Tamzin Mitchell October 24, 2018

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Honey Cure

Rob Francis October 22, 2018

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Flying With the Dead

Sabrina Vourvoulias October 18, 2018

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An Infinite Series of Primes

Laurence Raphael Brothers September 24, 2018

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A Son

Rachel Rodman August 20, 2018

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Phantasm

Magdi Hazaa August 9, 2018

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They Are Still Building It

C.S. Malerich August 2, 2018

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Visionary

Rhonda Eikamp July 30, 2018

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Tiny Lights

Nicole Lungerhausen July 25, 2018

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The Lady of Light

Jason A. Zwiker July 23, 2018

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Where Dead Men Go to Dream

A.C. Wise July 19, 2018

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Twelve Months

Aaron Emmel June 25, 2018

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Sea Shanties

Amelia Fisher May 7, 2018

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Long Dry Waste

Laura DeHaan April 30, 2018

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Phoenix Fire Fight

L.N. Holmes April 26, 2018

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Mirror, Mirror

M.P. Neal April 23, 2018

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The Ice Tree

Sarena Ulibarri April 16, 2018

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Better than Healed

Michael Harris Cohen March 26, 2018

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Prisoner and Parsley

J Strawn February 26, 2018

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Waiting for the Dawn

Anna Salonen February 5, 2018

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The Jade Woman

Garrett Davis January 29, 2018

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Wait Until You See Them

Marie Baca Villa January 26, 2018

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A Promise

Jennifer Hudak January 22, 2018

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