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Poetry Maria Vasquez Boyd Photo Credit: Milo Tobin The charm of a heart is that it appears to be heart-shaped. But it’s not. In fact it resembles the shape of fists that pummel locked doors Or the...

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Strawberries

Poetry Andrea Egert Photo Credit: Robert Taylor Strawberries For $6, I bought you organic strawberries Instead of the inexpensive, satanic strawberries With satanic strawberries, you get 2 pounds for...

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Two Poems

Poetry Paul Hostovsky Photo Credit: Rachel/Fuschia Foot Dear Hallmark I know some kids who’d rather make their own. And I know some grownups who would rather cut their own tongues out than let you...

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Two Poems

Poetry Brian Price Photo Credit: Daniel Norwood Rain South The storm has broken The rain eased but not for the brown-barked cedar Winds shake the spear-spiked leaves Cold drops fall on my bare scalp I...

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The Queen’s Secret

Flash Jacqueline Doyle Photo Credit: Katie Tegtmeyer My drunken father’s boasting started it. “I’m just a miller, but my daughter, she has a real future ahead of her. Smart as a whip, beautiful as the...

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Back to Comanche

Fiction Rick Bailey Photo Credit: Charlie Kellogg It’s a big sucker. On the corner post of the back porch, there’s this thing with wings, like a grasshopper, only four inches long. “Come look at this,”...

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Firm Iron

Fiction Lou Gaglia Photo Credit: Daniel Huggard On the first day of ninth grade, after a sweaty recess, I wanted to tell the kids sitting around me in social studies that I still had a bump on my head...

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The Messenger

Fiction Matthew Jankiewicz Photo Credit: cynicalview Standing on Wilson’s doorstep is a tall, wiry man dressed in casual business attire: a caviar suit, white shirt, and a narrow black necktie. Affixed...

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Vincent Under the Bed

Fiction Elizabeth Buechner Morris Photo Credit: Mike Alexander “Expect to be surprised.” These were the only words on the postcard I received at my home office, not even a date or a signature. I knew,...

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The Grace of Grass

Creative Nonfiction Shaina Rafal Photo Credit: Carol Blyberg The cool summer wind whips wisps of hair along my neck as I scan the rocky shore before me. I hear faint giggling up the hill—and at first I...

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Cars

Broker’s Pick Griggori Tyler Taylor Photo Credit: Johann/::: mindgraph ::: Dylan and I, we are cars going in different directions. We are both the only child of the parent we live with. He is eight...

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The Dance

Boots’s Pick Robert Watts Lamon Photo Credit: Randy Bayne He had recently closed his bookstore. The Internet and Barnes and Noble had beaten him fair and square. Now, as he lounged in his North...

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The Red Scarf

Dead of Winter ~ First Place Anitha Murthy Photo Credit: Jamelah E. The woman appeared in front of his car just as the traffic light turned green. Shailesh swore as he honked impatiently. As usual, the...

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Skin and Bones

Dead of Winter ~ Second Place Jake Gogats Photo Credit: Chris Wenger I woke to the sound of chanting. It wasn’t English; that was clear. It almost sounded like— No. I saw the sun rising outside of my...

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A Bone to Pick

Dead of Winter ~ Second Place Kristi Petersen Schoonover Photo Credit: Chinmoy Mukerji When I said I wouldn’t get back together with Warren if he were the last man on Earth, I meant it. For...

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Silver and Blood by Trina L. Talma

Candle-Ends: Reviews Lisa Olson The fantasy novel Silver and Blood by Trina L. Talma is in essence two very different books. In part one, “The Dark Men,” we are introduced to the main character Zania...

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All Writers Are Independent But Some Are More Independent Than Others

The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors Stephanie “Baker” Lenz Photo Credit: Allen Skyy Diet Coke ran an ad during the Oscars that began with a writer working at his desk, taking a stretch break and...

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