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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
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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...
John Ganshaw
Sep 15, 202410 min read
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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
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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,...
Rachel Lutwick-Deaner
Aug 15, 202413 min read
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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
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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...
Jenn Zatopek
Jul 14, 20245 min read
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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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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...
Clare Simons
Jun 15, 20244 min read
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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...
David Clear
May 29, 20249 min read
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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...
Madaline
May 15, 202410 min read
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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...
John F. Miglio
Apr 30, 202415 min read
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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...
Dr. Richard Bryneston
Apr 15, 20244 min read
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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...
Robert Kibble
Apr 1, 20249 min read
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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...
Christine Brooks
Mar 15, 20246 min read
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Stone Castings
Herculaneum, 79 AD (Back in the 1980s, over three hundred carbonized skeletal remains were discovered submerged along the coastline of...
E.C. Traganas
Feb 29, 20249 min read
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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...
Susan H. Evans
Feb 13, 20243 min read
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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...
Krin Van Tatenhove
Feb 1, 202411 min read
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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...
Jenn Zatopek
Jan 14, 20245 min read
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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...
Zach Keali’i Murphy
Dec 31, 20232 min read
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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...
Richard Lehan
Dec 15, 20239 min read
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