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Fiction

The Calling

“Her eyes catch a medic alert necklace. On his right, she sees a rotary telephone, the handset firmly hooked…”

The Fourth Face of Eve

“My mother lifted me up to kiss my grandfather in his casket. I had never kissed my grandfather while he was alive…”

Steerage (War Bride)

“My daughter’s line will be struck out, as that on so many others’ cards have been. Hasty burials at sea.”

Deac Etherington

The Last of Something

“He kept digging. The sound of the shovel reverberating off the rocks as if inside a sepulcher.”

The Mislaid Words of Gladys Prose

One evening, slumped over his supper of boiled carrots and potatoes, Walter told her that there had been a meeting.

rainy street

After the Storm

The hurricane hit like an old boxer—sapped of its former power, but still dangerous.

JC Scott

Sacrifice

I’ve been receiving gender-affirming therapies and waiting for the right time to come out to my son…

The Last Shift

You awake into the world where she’s gone, her life taken by a drunk driver while biking home in the cool night air…

Your Every Breath

Sanjay and I continued our daily chess games under the watchful eye of our parents, with long pauses and smiles…