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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Christmas Convergence
Maggie Turner walked briskly down Elm Street, her scarf pulled tight against the biting December wind. She wasn’t sure what had brought...
Edward J. McCoul
Dec 23, 20246 min read
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Kathleen Chamberlin
Dec 1, 202322 min read
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