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John Ganshaw
Sep 1510 min
End to the Year-long Winter
It’s been over a year of darkness, and I am longing for the light of a new dawn. The memories of what brought me to this place are so...
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Thomas M. McDade
Sep 115 min
Best Land Plans
I paid a goodbye visit to Windburn Barn figuring a bunch of college kids would have rented it by now, but there were no cars in the...
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Rachel Lutwick-Deaner
Aug 1513 min
Nursing Mother
“A mother who has had a baby in the hospital should insist on keeping him with her 24 hours a day. Unwrap the baby, keep him in your bed,...
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Nico Bechis
Jul 3016 min
The Vault
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse. Please read at your own discretion.) The music...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jul 145 min
A Brief Remembrance of My Father
My father had moments of crystalline clarity in which he would say something that would stop me in my tracks, making me pause to catch my...
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Shawn Casselberry
Jun 306 min
A Story You Wouldn't Believe
Willie sat on a week's old newspaper on the corner of Michigan and Adams, across from the Art Institute in downtown Chicago. It was a...
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Clare Simons
Jun 154 min
Requiem for a Contender
When Dad was dying the nurses bound his hands in yards of Ace bandages so he couldn’t pull out the life supports. The Buckeye Bomber, a...
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David Clear
May 299 min
Thus Spake Alan
“Insane? I was perfectly sane. I knew that the best place for a genius philosopher to hide out was an asylum. Switzerland, no less. Cool...
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Madaline
May 1510 min
Straight and Narrow —X
How can somebody you don't know look at you with such disdain in their eyes? They couldn't put themselves in your shoes, because they...
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John F. Miglio
Apr 3015 min
Killing Malice
My stepmother’s name was Alice, but I called her Malice because she haunted my childhood and was the evilest person I ever knew—and for...
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Dr. Richard Bryneston
Apr 154 min
Ash Wednesday, 2017
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Ellen and I counted 13 muskrats as we walked around Lake Bennett that late February mild...
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Robert Kibble
Apr 19 min
Swan Song
Becca stood by the edge of the bridge, the oppressive heat of the day finally giving in to a light breeze that chilled her bare arms. The...
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Christine Brooks
Mar 156 min
Crab Soup
Had it not been for Covid-19 forcing everyone inside, I’m not sure my plan would have worked but looking back, I'm glad I acted on that...
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E.C. Traganas
Feb 299 min
Stone Castings
Herculaneum, 79 AD (Back in the 1980s, over three hundred carbonized skeletal remains were discovered submerged along the coastline of...
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Susan H. Evans
Feb 133 min
The World Turns
Using Granny’s ancient knife -- the handle worn thin and the blade sharp as a razor -- I sliced big ruby tomatoes. Drops of red juice and...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Feb 111 min
Leaving New Orleans
“This is my favorite part of the drive,” said Alberto. We were cruising over the 18-mile span of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, en route...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jan 145 min
A Meditation of Delight
On a cold weekday morning in late winter, I meditated imperfectly leading to a wondrous moment of play, the effects of which nestled down...
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Zach Keali’i Murphy
Dec 31, 20232 min
The Mallards of St. Catherine
Stewart came from a town where the water was abundant but never clean. Lillian came from a town where there wasn’t enough water to keep...
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Richard Lehan
Dec 15, 20239 min
Lipoma
1. Vin stood in front of the bathroom mirror studying the lump protruding from his left shoulder. Pinching it between his thumb and index...
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