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Tag: LITERARY

MY SON, MY MOON / NATHANIEL SVERLOW

LITERARY, POETRYLeave a comment

my son lets me sleep two or three hours at a time and that’s just enough for the body to function but not nearly enough for the spirit I’m trying though it’s all I can do now that he’s here to try
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WHEN MY HUSBAND FLIES AWAY FOR WORK / KELLY JONES

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I imagine the worst things happening in air. When he texts me that the plane had to land because it was leaking he is not afraid – he doesn’t realize this is my nightmare made real. I do not fear monsters or
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IF YOU’RE A SHRIMP, I’M A SHRIMP / LAURA MANARDO

FLASH FICTION, LITERARY, magical realism, SHORT STORYLeave a comment

You were baking shrimp. It was evening in Brooklyn in late October. Yellow leaves were falling off of trees and smacking the bay window. Your mother had just died. Pete was gone, too; had been gone. The oven dinged. You checked your
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ODE TO THE SHOWER SPIDER / JOHN THOMAS WETMORE

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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us… ~Gene Wolfe I wasn’t afraid when I first saw you— I just felt bad, thinking you must have the worst real estate agent in history to end up wedged
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