Category: Fiction

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HOLIDAY HABIT BY DAMON YEARGAIN

The turkey was placed upon the table a full five hours later than the Laurintzes’ invitation had said it would be. Tammy, their daughter, had gotten stuck in traffic on Highway 5 coming up from LA with her new boyfriend. I could...

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LAUNDRY DAY BY MICHAEL LOYD GRAY

We met on the outskirts of Kalamazoo in a laundromat, hers tumbling in a dryer, mine still swirling in a washer. She had a boy with her, a runt with blond curls playing a video game on his phone. He didn’t look up when she...

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FEEDING OLA BY DANNY WILLIAMS

In June of 1988, Sherry Fieldhouse ca­lled to say we would be getting a new resident, one she thought would fit well in the Tretton Place family. I went to Salem Avenue to pick up Alexandra Paredes’s chart, and to chat about her...

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THE SHAPE OF CARDS TO COME BY THERESA MORITZ

“Hello.” Open line sounds, but no voice; “Hello.” Now I recognize it, it’s the pause before the human comes on once the dialing app has reported that I’ve stopped eating dinner to answer the phone. I start to hang up. “Theresa?”...

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CAIRO EPIC BY RICHARD MARRANCA

David and Barclay visited a café that existed as a few silvery tables beside the street. People smoked water pipes as if they were meditating. Every ten minutes or so, an old man, thin with white hair and brownish teeth, popped...

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DORMANTA BY TOM DILWORTH

He was a very calm person. But he struggled with his place. The way everyone does sometimes. Only for him, the struggle never ceased. Mid-April saw a chill arrive from the north. The furnace roared to a start. They’d just opened...

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A RECIPE FOR LOVE BY PRESLEY ACUNA

AI knew all there was to know about its biological progenitors. In addition to humanity’s facts and figures, all human emotions had been semantically analyzed for context. Even love was fully cataloged and digitized. But the...

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RECESSIONAL BY MEREDITH SUE WILLIS

The thing that tortured us was that we could see she was tortured. At first, we all played word games. She would watch television. She seemed especially to enjoy local commercials where the proprietor displays the product and...

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THANKSGIVING MASS BY KELSEY STEWART

Subject: Thanksgiving Mass My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,           After much prayerful discernment and thoughtful consideration, we have once again chosen to present a beautiful choir program as a sacred offering for...

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