Bud's House
A few weeks before the Fourth of July, I was curled up on my couch, enjoying the soft light of the patio through my sliding doors, ready...
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Sharon Oberne
Nov 164 min read
Escaping a Predator
I was club hopping with my BFF, Jeannie, when I found myself, in deep trouble! This was the 1970’s and it was quite popular to go to a...
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Carol Zapata-Whelan
Oct 3115 min read
Ánima en Pena: Spain, 1656
“Titles matter little. We are the children of our works.” —Don Quijote de la Mancha Madrid, 23 de junio, 1656, Stilo Novo ...
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Angela Curnutt
Oct 1422 min read
Just You and I
(content warning: this story includes references to domestic violence.) As a cradle Catholic, I always knew you needed your faith to do...
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Matias F. Travieso-Diaz
Oct 112 min read
Polyps
1 My knees and hands were bleeding and hurt like the dickens, but I was still holding onto the seashell I had picked up from the darkened...
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John Ganshaw
Sep 1410 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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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