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Approaching Hysteria, Illinois by Max Talley

This is the city in which time converges, an unstable zone where back then is now again as it will…

4 years ago

My Best Day by Michael Grant Smith

I rode an elephant into town. It felt like the right time to do this. We traveled westward. As my…

7 years ago

One for the Road by Leon Kortenkamp

We take a table by the windows. Below, San Diego glitters like diamonds on black velvet, and the lights of Coronado…

7 years ago

Royal Decree by Henry Presente

Named for the greatest of his great grandfathers, a king who earned his land by blood and bravery, Malakeye stood…

7 years ago

Ed Mason by Frederick K. Foote, Jr.

Nigger, please, you and your payday smile. You shine like you got new shoes, an ear full of good news,…

7 years ago

Piedmont by Matt Dennison

On Sundays I take my fiddle and dreams onto the front porch after church, have a frolic. Reminds me of…

7 years ago

Tattoos by Don Noel

“Excuse me for being personal, but that’s a handsome tattoo on your arm.” “Thank you. Have you decided what you’re…

8 years ago

Bats by Robert Ford

  We wait for them, evening, like monks, with the pale flames of our fire relaxing down into their pit,…

8 years ago

Break Up by Terri Muuss

  “I just don’t know how I feel about you anymore.” The empty in your face cuts flowers from the…

8 years ago

Uncle Arthur Wants You by Laurinda Lind

  Yesterday they put my eighty-eight-year-old mother and me in exam room ten at the clinic, the geriatric room, guessing…

8 years ago

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