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Betrayed by Biology

November 1, 2023November 1, 2023 DB Maddox

I can’t remember where I was when Father got home that day. Probably, I was somewhere inside the house; maybe I was in the living room. Maybe sitting cross-legged on the dingy, frayed oriental rug that had tufts of cat and dog and probably human hair tangled in its tassels Read more

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Red

August 7, 2023August 7, 2023 Emma Wells

Hiding. Always hiding. He keeps to dark corners of woodland, ghosting trees, with sharpened blades for claws. Often fractious, taking to gouging lines of discontent within woody bark, leaving imprints of dissatisfaction in his wake: macabre tattoos that speak of moroseness and an unspoken curfew. His having, and then, not Read more

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Bitten

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023 Zoey Rae Knowlton

“Yes, those do appear to be mosquito bites. They’ve swelled up somethin’ fierce. You sure you’re not allergic?” “No. At least, I never have been. I don’t know, everything seems to be hitting me harder since I got this little fella.” “Well, pregnancy can do a lot to the body. Read more

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I thought I would teach you

May 29, 2023May 29, 2023 Marcelo Candido de Melo

It’s not easy to admit that they fell a few more millimeters. That’s what I think when I get out of the shower and face my entire body. I don’t accept counting in centimeters as long as that mirror is mine. As if that would reverse or delay this accursed Read more

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Close to Home

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 Myra Slotnick

Today is a good day to die. The neighbor’s mother is dying next door, fifty feet from us. She has been dying for some days. The son arrived yesterday, though, from Ohio, all red-eyed, sleep deprived, and unshaven, and I happened to be collecting the mail. “Hi, how are you?” I Read more

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The Shipwreck of the Ispolen

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Emma Wells

For one hundred and twenty-five years, I’ve been nothing more than a watery whisper, dissipating in shifting waves, crumbling to shadowy fragments, perpetually washed upon the sandy shore. My fingers are ghosts stretching longingly and painfully back to Norway, where love was once known. Cruelly, my spirit is trapped here: entrapped Read more

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Dieting

April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 Gustavo Barbur de Melo

This is the story of how a sixteen-year-old me ended up in the hospital malnourished, almost taking my boyfriend along with me in a quest to look my best for Winter Formal. Before we start, it’s important to remember that I grew up very sheltered in a small suburban community Read more

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Fat Tuesday

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Emily Nelson

Layla tells us that she was down to 500 calories a day when she saw God. We’re all at Bri’s house, the four of us knee to knee and shivering because her mom turns off the heat at nine. The basement TV is paused in the middle of an episode Read more

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