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Hooked by Elijah Woodruff

GENRE BENDING, LITMAG, SHORT STORY, SPECULATIVE3 Comments

His daughter stands next to him. He can still remember when she used to put her little hand in his and squeeze with all her might, with all her love. Those were the good days. These are good days too. They’re just
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Memory Ghost by Kat Caldwell

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There are voices in the room waking me from my hibernation. They aren’t arguing, but there is a strange excitement in their speech. My cardboard box lifts into the air, swings over a small distance before settling back down again. On something
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Frederick Guttzeit by Paul Smith

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It isn’t weird, is it, to wander around cemeteries? I don’t think so. I like the cemetery where my family is buried. There are my grandparents, my parents, and my Uncle Bud. I was really close to him. Every fall, when the
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Crab by Ace Chu

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Inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s “Strayed Crab.” I’ve been thinking about crabs. I’ve been watching my pet crab Herbert in his little tank, specifically designed to his comfort. There is a sandy area above the water that slopes gently into a watery playground,
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Issue 12

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Möbius Band by Jie Wang The Body of a Hero by Abby Sundeen Cleaning Day by Amber Beck Wandering Men by Kenneth Gulotta The Haunted Tea Set by Sarah Jackson

The Body of a Hero by Abby Sundeen

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By every measure of logic, between the body and the soul, the body is not the narrator. That is the responsibility of the soul, the storyteller, while the body, the storykeeper, logs it all in scars and nightmares. This nightmare in particular is
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Wandering Men by Kenneth Gulotta

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The interrogator paused outside the door, looking down the hall at something or someone, and then he walked into the room, carrying a thick stack of red folders that were interlarded with loose pieces of white paper. He set them on the
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The Haunted Tea Set by Sarah Jackson

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Iris didn’t see her mother again until three months after her funeral.              She was at the computer in her spare room, searching Freecycle for a sugar spoon. Beside her, steam spiraled from a cream china cup with a delicate pattern of pink
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Möbius Band by Jie Wang

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There are two geometric points on a Möbius band. They are female. They are she and I.  “My Möbius ring is as rusty as time.” I look at my hand.  “You should take it off,” she says. “I can’t. It was welded
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Cleaning Day by Amber Beck

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Stacy picks up a chunk of her own flesh and tosses it into the extra-strength black trash bag. It is half full already and stinks something awful. She makes her way through each room in her home, picking up the biggest pieces
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