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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Nico Bechis
- Jul 30
- 16 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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Shawn Casselberry
- Jun 30
- 6 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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David Clear
- May 29
- 9 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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John F. Miglio
- Apr 30
- 15 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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Robert Kibble
- Apr 1
- 9 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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E.C. Traganas
- Feb 29
- 9 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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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Feb 1
- 11 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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Zach Keali’i Murphy
- Dec 31, 2023
- 2 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, 2023
- 9 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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Kathleen Chamberlin
- Dec 1, 2023
- 22 min
At the Corner of Humboldt and Spruce
There was something about the house at the corner of Humboldt and Spruce that gripped the imagination and drew the eye to it. It wasn't...
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Luisa Kay Reyes
- Nov 1, 2023
- 7 min
Land of the Free
It was an ambush! John Ware and his South Carolina militia men had successfully defeated the well-armed redcoats at the bridge. But...
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Eduard Schmidt-Zorner
- Oct 1, 2023
- 9 min
Writing Contest
"I will not eat a single hazelnut, unless you are by my side…" - a Black Sea folk song Akçay and his wife Semra lived in the province of...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Aug 30, 2023
- 20 min
The Final Incarnation
Mellow, easygoing, that’s how Jamie’s friends and family described him. Some tied it to his frequent pot smoking. Others linked it to his...
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C.J. Anderson-Wu
- Jul 27, 2023
- 7 min
Run, Run, Run Away, Come Again Another Day
Once a proud and majestic feline, I now spend most of my days curling up in the corner of a bombed-out building, trying to avoid the...
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David Clear
- Jul 3, 2023
- 6 min
Cresting Wave
(Writers note: "Inspired by a reputed affair between Herman Melville and Sarah Morewood in 1850’s Massachusetts as he was writing Moby...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
- Jun 5, 2023
- 15 min
Mesmer and the Flying Boy
By the expression Animal Magnetism I mean one of the universal operations of Nature, the action of which, when directed on our nerves,...
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Shawn Casselberry
- May 10, 2023
- 4 min
Moon Mission
Corporal Maxwell had progressed faster than Space Force Sergeant Jackson had anticipated. In a few short months, he had already logged...
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Michael Fryd
- Apr 28, 2023
- 9 min
Willow
I’ve lived five years next door to Ira Schwartz, but we never exchanged more than a brief hello. I stopped in to check on him a few...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Mar 30, 2023
- 19 min
Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
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