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Mar 20, 20222 min read
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 15, 20223 min read
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 14, 20223 min read
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 8, 20221 min read
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 6, 20221 min read
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....


Jan 30, 20224 min read
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 20, 20224 min read
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...


Dec 23, 20213 min read
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 7, 20212 min read
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...


Nov 27, 20212 min read
Writing Excercise - Gwen Pryor
The stuffy sweet smell of vanilla, cinnamon, and fermenting milk greets us two blocks ahead of Dave’s Ice Cream Shoppe. I peel back the...


Nov 11, 20212 min read
Late Night Texts - Katie Bockino
Sorry for ranting my best friend texts me. It’s the same phrase I sent her two nights ago. We always are sorry, apologetic for texting...


Oct 10, 20214 min read
Empty Leather - Ashley Lynn Scheffler Bhasin
My seat is taken and I stand in the doorway staring. I always sit in the same seat. I know she sees me looking at her but I don’t make...
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