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Fiction

Gray view of ocean waves - Photo by John Towner via Unsplash

After the End

The movies got it wrong; there was nothing exciting about the end of the world.

Fiction | November/December 2023 | By Irene Cantizano Bescós


Photo of pool water - Lee Jeffs via Unsplash

Shine

Mom faced the sky and sizzled a little longer.

Fiction | September/October 2023 | By Gina M. Angelone


Phases of the moon - San Sahil via Unsplash

The Extra Life of Nancy Fagelbaum

She was the former-attorney, former stay-at-home mom, former manager of parental care, former person with a reason to awaken in the morning and help others.

Fiction | September/October 2023 | By Sharon G. Forman


Stethoscope - Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography via Unsplash

Symptoms

For one brief golden moment, you were the main character of a story all your own.

Fiction | July/August 2023 | By Shayla Frandsen


Billowing white fabric - Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi via Unsplash

Opting for Illusions

She hadn’t thought through where the truth would leave them. She felt suddenly desperate not to lose her friend.

Fiction | July/August 2023 | By Carrie Esposito


The Drumstick Tree

When I complained to my mother that Ganga yelled at me and treated my sister and me differently from my brother, my mother would say, “Let her be. She’s had a very unfortunate life…”

Fiction | May/June 2023 | By Ravibala Shenoy


Ginko -- Photo by Olga Drach via Unsplash

Ginkgo Biloba

It would be difficult to write about anything else, even though the other day when I pushed the pram to the front garden, five military helicopters flew over my head . . .

Fiction | May/June 2023 | By Zsófia Czakó & Marietta Morry & Walter Burgess (Translators)


A Day in the Life of a Children’s Book Author

“I’m not clear whose story this is . . .”

Comic, Fiction | May/June 2023 | By Katia Wish


Image by Haley Truong for March April 2023 LM - Birdless Dawn

Birdless Dawn

Would she remember that birds once sang to us every morning, or would this become legend, a memory from some long-ago time when magical flying creatures sang as the sun came up?

Fiction | March/April 2023 | By Noriko Nakada


image for The Cottage by Noemi Pongracz - March April LM 2023

The Cottage

I wanted to watch a thing fall because of something I did.

Fiction | March/April 2023 | By Barbara Summers


There Are Always Hugs — Katia Wish

There Are Always Hugs

Life as a single mom could be hard, but … there are always hugs.

Comic, Fiction | March/April 2023 | By Katia Wish


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