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"With apologies, from Furnace Creek" by Kirsti MacKenzie

Could you forgive me if I told you the air was warm as my skin, that there is no sound in the desert but your own shaking breath, that...

"Mimesis" by Noor Us Sabah Tauqeer

Jahanara stood sentry outside a place she had never visited. A place she had never had reason enough to visit. A bank. In her browned...

"Road Trip" by Nolcha Fox & Barbara Leonhard

The moon is a vacancy sign, and I want to pull in for a rest. But the parking lot is full of stars, their headlights blinking through the...

"Fast Car" by Lisa Lerma Weber

Do you remember the time we were driving down Main Street in your dad's old blue Monte Carlo and "Fast Car" played on the radio? You said...

"The Last Letter" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

My Boy, When you read this letter, I will be dead. I’m sorry, but you need to let me go. If you don’t, I might start haunting people, and...

"Back Into the Wild" by Cole Beauchamp

The first time we saw it, we were rowing under Barnes Bridge, cool shadows flooding our lungs with their mossy scent. Like the black...

"Absorbed" by Katharine Coldiron

I fell asleep with my left hand resting on my phone, and when I woke up the phone had become part of me. My hand had grown around it, had...

"The Very Bad People at a Sad Little School" by Candice M. Kelsey

There once was a husband and wife who had lived in a big city out West. They were a happy couple who enjoyed teaching high school...

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