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    'The Ghosts of Colestown Cemetery' by William Falo
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 8 min

    'The Ghosts of Colestown Cemetery' by William Falo

    When I lived with my parents, our house was next to a cemetery. My father claimed it was cheaper to live near the dead than the living,...
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    'Mirror' by Yutong Yang
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 5 min

    'Mirror' by Yutong Yang

    I didn’t see the blood moon that night by the lake. But I remember seeing stars. Legend has it that the crimson orb was a beautiful...
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    'The Writer's Wife' by Max Dunbar
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 7 min

    'The Writer's Wife' by Max Dunbar

    A man can fall in love with women, in love with other men, with a country or a cause. Cooper Daniels had fallen in love with a writer, a...
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    'Choices' by Robert P. Bishop
    • Mar 19, 2020
    • 7 min

    'Choices' by Robert P. Bishop

    Jason looked in the bathroom mirror, adjusted the knot of his necktie, and heard laughter. The sound startled him. How could there be...
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    'The Dreamgatherer' by Joseph Darlington
    • Mar 19, 2020
    • 10 min

    'The Dreamgatherer' by Joseph Darlington

    High on a hill overlooking Manchester, dark figures move through the heather. Slim bodies bending in the low light. Groups of them,...
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    'When The Snow Falls' by Amy Clarkin
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 13 min

    'When The Snow Falls' by Amy Clarkin

    Most people fear the darkness but we have learned to dread the light. Our village, tucked away in the mountains on the edge of the...
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    'Deep Into The Woods' by Martin White
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 9 min

    'Deep Into The Woods' by Martin White

    (TW: graphic violence and mentions of rape) It was late at night. Perhaps just a stroke after midnight. A pitch-black sky descended where...
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    'His Name Was Seven' by Alessandra Podda
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 4 min

    'His Name Was Seven' by Alessandra Podda

    (TW: drug use and graphic violence) It was a Thursday. A hard worked, dull Thursday, when the nightmares came back. I was on the couch...
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    'The Wilkinsons' by Abby Simpson
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 8 min

    'The Wilkinsons' by Abby Simpson

    “They’re so strange,” I said to myself, taking a long drag from my cigarette. I watched the Wilkinsons in their front yard and thumbed...
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    'Ca$h Money' by Tristan Drue Rogers
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 6 min

    'Ca$h Money' by Tristan Drue Rogers

    Cash Money was a skull. This skull didn’t know where its body was, nor could it even ask. That name was only available to its undeserved...
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    'Consultation' by Grace Arenas
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 8 min

    'Consultation' by Grace Arenas

    With dirt still under her nails and smudging the knees of her jeans, Gwen wasn’t feeling like her best self next to the radiant corpse...
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    'Step Inside My Circles' by Riley Cross
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 5 min

    'Step Inside My Circles' by Riley Cross

    Life is a loop that you can’t escape. That’s what Daddy says, staring across the foggy sea. I rest my chin on the safety rail and reach...
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    'Song For A Father' by Jakob Konger
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 10 min

    'Song For A Father' by Jakob Konger

    Once, upon coming of age, the son of a land-owning man asked to receive his inheritance early. He understood that, per tradition, he was...
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    'Prelude To Murder' by Dawn DeBraal
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 19 min

    'Prelude To Murder' by Dawn DeBraal

    She stuck out her thumb, putting on her biggest smile. Her mother would not approve. Janeen got the semi-truck to stop for her. “Where...
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    'Hosting Duties' by Mary Hannah Terzino
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 12 min

    'Hosting Duties' by Mary Hannah Terzino

    They were watching a re-run of The Lucille Ball Show. “Be there in a jiffy!” Lucy said into the telephone. “How long, exactly, is a...
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    'Chernobyl Wolves' by William Falo
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 6 min

    'Chernobyl Wolves' by William Falo

    I tucked three books under my shirt as I got ready to leave. The owner was in the backroom and he wouldn’t miss a few books, besides he...
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    'Siren Song' by Christina Rosso
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 6 min

    'Siren Song' by Christina Rosso

    We haven’t always been like this, my sisters and I. Gnarled creatures wailing tunes of melancholy and death, waiting for the one who got...
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    'The Flight of the Cuckoo' by Joseph Darlington
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 16 min

    'The Flight of the Cuckoo' by Joseph Darlington

    It was a sad day for Ivor Williams. A sad day for the Cuckoo. It was the first day of the last week that the Cuckoo would make its run....
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    'Mary Goes For A Drive' by Tilly Foulkes
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 6 min

    'Mary Goes For A Drive' by Tilly Foulkes

    Mary hadn’t felt like this in a long time. By a long time, I mean ever. Not once had she felt this way. It was an unremarkable night. She...
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    'The Worst Husbands in All of Eternity' by Emily Deibler
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 10 min

    'The Worst Husbands in All of Eternity' by Emily Deibler

    In his mouth was the scent of lilies, lilies like in Gethsemane. (and the redbud tree, the redbud tree where you... ) Sulfur overcame his...
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