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Violet by Leigh Ferrier
Violet often watched her mother shuffling around the house in the morning, but she never thought much of it. It just seemed to be something she did. Her father was a bit more chaotic in his routine—often dashing out of the house and returning once or twice for his keys…
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Crickets by Stephen Spotte
Falling, cartwheeling through that single plane, the dimensions in which we could see were limited. At your call we had risen from the table and rounded the corner into the foyer. Your descent had already begun. Because we arrived perpendicular to the stairway and underneath the highest part we saw…
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The Last Night by Jack Lowe-Carbell
“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”-Jhumpa Lahiri“The Namesake” It had felt differently lately, everything had. He had gone through his days with a boring shuffled step, his soles dragging along as he went about the mundane activities…
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Controlled Burn by Liz Hunt
Purposeful renewalwe burn down the forestsof our being sometimes we cannot waitfor them to blazedangerously, uncontrolled. We force ourselves to grow againto prepare for whenlife gives us no choice. Liz Hunt is a poet in New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in the Collective World. Liz’s work is an honest…
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Nightfall in the Forest by John Grey
Trees, gun-metal dark,creak and moan.Mice scurry through the underbrush.There’s a hoot owl in their heavenand it promises to wreak hell. All is unhinged when the sun goes down.Long-held opinions dissipate in shadow.There’s no more bird song.Air fills with bat squeak instead.Hunger pushes some creatures into the open.Predators are unharnessed somewhere…
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Cypsela by Penelope Lee
my grandma is a lost hazy figure a scattering blur on the horizonfading in and out of reality, of something resembling sanity. she worships a rainbow of her own mind, pleading for some long-foregone benediction.hear her wild whispering to the wind, the drag of her body over the curve of…
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Ruined by Sarah Macallister
One hundred and ninety-nine steps, the sign warned. Salt prickled Maria’s flushed face, sweat mingling with salt spray carried on the wind from the bellowing sea. The stone steps snaked away from the grinning crescent of the bottom one. Over her shoulder, Maria’s husband ran, clapping the cobbles with…
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The Elves of Cheshire by Alex LeGrys
I once knew the elvesof Cheshire and drank theirpotions eagerly, begging forjust one more drop they live in shrunken housesand drink fine ales and organic wines,yet they fast till dusk if you haven’t done theirbidding they draw cedar wandsadorned with crystals,casting strange spells readfrom mass-producedpamphlets they watch their mirrors liketelevisions–…
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January by George Freek
An icy wind cracks the frozen trees.as icicles fall from the eaveslike rapier bladesI don’t comb my hair,or shave my beard.The face in the mirroris a stranger to me.The moon and the starslike the distant mountainslook safe in theirfar-off world,but they reveal scars,and are also fragile at best. George Freek’s…