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    FICTION | Interview with the Pope

    FICTION | Interview with the Pope

    The Pope had written the words: "Clear enough behind soft white smiles: the tongue. And beyond that: the breath. And beyond that? Nothi
    FICTION | The In-Betweens

    FICTION | The In-Betweens

    Sometimes at night, wild zombies roam.
    FICTION | The Boyfriend Pact

    FICTION | The Boyfriend Pact

    The habits of the Buck-Fifty Boyfriend might best be described as unpredictable, though they may also be considered odd.
    FICTION | A Good Korean Daughter

    FICTION | A Good Korean Daughter

    There’s just no pleasing your mother.
    FLASH FICTION | Being the Murdered Mama

    FLASH FICTION | Being the Murdered Mama

    The newspapers will ask has anyone seen your baby, the newspapers will shed crocodile tears for your young life.
    FICTION | Misdeeds of the Root

    FICTION | Misdeeds of the Root

    2019 PROSE CONTEST WINNER. At noon, the women move into the house. It is one story, wooden, abandoned.
    FICTION | The Child

    FICTION | The Child

    We buried the child at midnight in the shadow of an ocotillo.
    FICTION | My Unparalleled Occcupancy

    FICTION | My Unparalleled Occcupancy

    Do you imagine that floors are flat? They are not. As with many things, this cannot be perceived from afar.
    FICTION | Other Susan

    FICTION | Other Susan

    I know it would destroy her if I wasn’t.  I know it would destroy us if we weren’t.  I know it will one way or the other.
    FICTION | The Age of Virtual Children

    FICTION | The Age of Virtual Children

    It began—this much is certain—with the childless, and more particularly, the unhappily childless, those who had settled into lives of quiet,
    FICTION | Shoes in the Suburbs

    FICTION | Shoes in the Suburbs

    Love me, Val! I say. Love me you excited like-sucker!
    FICTION | A Regular-Looking Man, Alone

    FICTION | A Regular-Looking Man, Alone

    I feel in league with the women of the world. Soon we will walk out of the museum and eat lunch somewhere.
    FICTION | Miss Sandy Bay Trout Festival 2005

    FICTION | Miss Sandy Bay Trout Festival 2005

    Losing her was not a thing we had considered.
    FICTION | Burns & Helen, Past & Present

    FICTION | Burns & Helen, Past & Present

    A rooster makes me up early every day, she says, and he knows she isn’t awake, she’s asleep after all—and, considering everything, talking v
    FICTION | Cakewalk

    FICTION | Cakewalk

    You first see her at Polish Town Polka Days. She’s the one in mismatched costume, dancing confidently with men twice her age and singing alo
    FICTION | Living to Die at the Cheap Butts Filling Station

    FICTION | Living to Die at the Cheap Butts Filling Station

    Every Sunday the cashier at the Cheap Butts Filling Station gets all shot to dead.
    FLASH FICTION | Go On

    FLASH FICTION | Go On

    “Your lips are like a bird,” I say. “And when you kiss me, I hear the most beautiful songs.”
    FICTION | Exhaust

    FICTION | Exhaust

    We’ve only had one medic killed in the history of our company and it wasn’t a medic; it was an EMT.
    FICTION | How Clowns Die

    FICTION | How Clowns Die

    Alone, we cannot trust the night to offer us anything, not even kettle corn, not even light.
    FICTION | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    FICTION | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    2017 PROSE CONTEST WINNER. Our Abraham Lincoln was dead but we looked alive.
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