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FICTION | things from the dirt sometimes come out

When death came for her, it came like a friend, soft-mouthed and kind-footed.

Oct 24
1 min

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in her town, A buries a yellow bird refers to it as a gesture of care because she can see the world in the small knows that a bird ...

Cara Lynn Albert

Oct 23
10 min

FICTION | Acquired Taste

He stared at her, and she stared back. Matching amber eyes with no fragment of familiarity.

David Heronry

Oct 9
18 min

FICTION | The Moon is Gone and Will Never Return

I want to write small poems. I want to write about people, not the state of the world.

Nicole Rollender

Oct 9
2 min

Novena for When My Son Says He Doesn't Want to See Spirits

Protect this boy who slid into a well-oiled world, glossy bluegill nine weeks too soon, a touch of the mystic— there wasn’t time to wipe ...

Nathan Manley

Oct 2
1 min

Cape Elizabeth, October

At each arrival the sand grains wave-turned and burning quartz-light unsettle their spirals a thousand golden beetles frittering out a sl...

Katie Jean Shinkle

Oct 2
9 min

FICTION | The Mercy Method

Everything trapped inside of its own fear. When you believe everything is bad, how can it get worse?

Puerto del Sol

Sep 29
1 min

ANNOUNCEMENT | Best of the Net 2020 Nominations

Best of the Net 2020 Nominations

Anthony DiPietro

Sep 25
2 min

When I was an uber driver,

friends asked for my horror stories. I said my scariest customers were four young republican lawyers, drunk from a long day of golf. pick...

Shaina Phenix

Sep 7
5 min

The PdS Black Voices Series Presents: SHAINA PHENIX

Ode to the tuna melt Because I was eighteen and telling my best friend,the godmother to all three of my not-yet fetuses—I ain't never see...

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