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The Cool Night Breeze
She lived for the cool night breeze, like a cloud in the sky, free and easy, always wandering. I often wondered if she’d just wandered...
Richard M. Ankers
6 days ago6 min read


Carrier the Fisherman
Dedicated to Louis Clinton Carrier, my grandfather I remember running through the forest of endless trees, skylight breaking...
Victor Benavides
Jul 19 min read


Shift
You forced my hand. When you modernized, flying all around the world in your airplanes, I could have mutated, evolved. I could have...
John Leahy
Jun 226 min read


Kanazawa in the Rain
The tracks parallel the Japan Sea coast. On one side, a fishing boat’s lights on dark water, on the other, towns too small for a stop,...
Wally Wood
Jun 1514 min read


The Contract
Lystra left the river behind her, walking with her basket of clean clothes on her head, wishing for the hundredth time that she could...
Soter Lucio
Jun 110 min read


The Rolling Hills
Do I or do I not cross? The question echoes in my mind as I watch the rolling hills outside my window. Clumps of green that rise and...
Michelle Koubek
May 224 min read


All In
I was thirteen years old that July in 1952 that they let Uncle Buddy out of the pen long enough to come home for Mammaw’s funeral, or so...
John Mitchell Johnson
May 1516 min read


The Overdue Library Book
One night when I was about 10, I dreamt I was in a library. A lady walked up. She looked familiar. She didn’t say anything but when...
David Clear
May 18 min read


Farther Along Camino de Santiago
Four weeks in, as a petition for absolution, I hiked, occasionally encountering other pilgrims as we weaved France’s verdant, wooded,...
Joe Giordano
Apr 155 min read


A Carton of Eggs
I didn’t know at the time how I came unstuck. It happened on a day like any other day. I was taking a walk in my neighborhood. I do this...
Mike Sherer
Apr 116 min read


Brimfield
The white GM box truck with ‘J Corduroy, Antiques – Collectibles’ on the side in scraped brown paint bounced us as the big tires rolled...
Robert Moore
Mar 2021 min read


Song of the River
Which is the more difficult thing to do—love your immediate surroundings for the way they nurture you? Or hate them for all that they’ve...
Urmi Chakravorty
Mar 113 min read


The Great Chemistry Test Heist
All this happened back in 1965 when the Vietnam War was raging, and my high school pals and I were reading MAD Magazine and The...
John F. Miglio
Feb 111 min read


The Shaman
Those who do not want to lose their blindfolds for fear of the light, deserve the dark. – Quechan proverb Cusco, Peru "Not far now!"...
Krin Van Tatenhove
Jan 2414 min read


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...
Fay L. Loomis
Dec 1, 202412 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 ...
Carol Zapata-Whelan
Nov 1, 202415 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...
Matias F. Travieso-Diaz
Oct 1, 202412 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...
Thomas M. McDade
Sep 1, 202415 min read


The Vault
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse. Please read at your own discretion.) The music...
Nico Bechis
Jul 30, 202416 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...
Shawn Casselberry
Jun 30, 20246 min read
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