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I am an Avid Gardener - Alexandra Francese
I’m an avid gardener, and now, I have a new section to fill. A new section to fertilize, plant, water, feed, and love. This love comes...
Jun 8, 20224 min read
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People for Existing - Alexandra Persad
Ellis had the same dream each night. Her behind the wheel of a car, careening around sharp corners and obstructed paths. Even in an...
May 5, 202215 min read
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Metzgerhund - Siena Foster Soltis
She ordered the least potent thing she could find on the menu - the most neutral - the least information. That's all you want? That's...
Apr 17, 20224 min read
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Spy Games - Emily Painton
I glanced up from the notebook I was scribbling in to watch you stride into the room. You were still wet from another one of your long...
Mar 20, 20222 min read
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Kiss it Better - Charnice Dagley
I don’t know where you came from or why you chose me. The pursuit was a swift one. On the strength of your disguise and the dreams you...
Mar 15, 20223 min read
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Crisis Runs Cold - C.J. Jaye
Frosted with bitterness, sprinkled with self loathing and ruefully self-aware. Trials, falls, failures. Her righteous rage poised...
Mar 14, 20223 min read
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Home - Alexa Zinke
Mommy worked too late under the fluorescents to fight the evil black mold creeping up the wall to Baby’s nursery. She hiked the mile-high...
Mar 8, 20221 min read
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Wrong Men, Poor Choices
1973 was a year of wrong men and poor choices. Harlan left her with two concurrently running STDS infections to marry an older woman....
Mar 6, 20221 min read
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EMPTYING SPACES_________________________________ - Meghan Lennox
There is something about moving out that just makes me sick. It’s like being forced to dissect the contents of your vomit after an entire...
Jan 30, 20224 min read
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GROWING PAINS - Christine Alexander
I wanted to be an Eva Joia Girl. They were chic, bitchy-looking, blonde brooding beauties. Blank-faced and sure, dark blue-eyed and...
Jan 20, 20224 min read
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Becoming the Redwoods - Chelsea Bryant
After a hotel breakfast of coffee and bread, I’m driving moody passages through vineyards, past technicolor signs straight out of the...
Dec 23, 20213 min read
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The Year We Lost So Much in the Forest Fires - K.L. Mendt
At first, we watched the delicate ash as it fell. We caught the flakes, unique as their snowy counterparts, and rubbed them between our...
Dec 7, 20212 min read
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