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Fiction

Tim Marshall

Other Mothers

It was two in the morning. The drum of sadness beat inside her until the building pressure pushed tears out, until she could only see the blur around her. She…

Fiction | May/June 2020 | By Karis White


Angéle Kamp

Big Sister

You, Big Sister, listen close when Mom talks like that. You do this partly out of concern for Aunt Louisa, and partly because you want Mom to let you buy…

Fiction | May 2020 | By Erin Eileen Almond


Dewang Gupta

Marbles, Lost

She tried to understand him, would ask him over dinner what he was doing all those hours in his room. He gave terse answers out of the side of his…

Fiction | May 2020 | By Briana Maley


Milada Vigerova

Test Results

The double-helix structure of DNA allows for replication, but yours has unwound, a single spiral staircase tapering off into a singular void. Rick refuses to uncouple, says having a genetic…

Fiction | March 2020 | By Amy Lyons


Charles Deluvio

Baby Dust for Us All

She abandoned the tests on the marble vanity and the jar of night-cream under the toilet. In her slippers, no bra, hair amiss, she walked out of the house.

Fiction | March 2020 | By Heidi Fisher


Camilo Jimenez

Only Now

The child cries out, and Janet, half-asleep, dashes down the hall to the nursery before the next cry. The second round will be louder, escalating to deafening, the same pattern…

Fiction | March 2020 | By Randy Kraft


Fischer Twins Photography

One Slow-Motion Moment

I look in the mirror at my unbrushed gray hair. The deep wrinkles that sank in overnight, tunneling.

Fiction | January 2020 | By Hannah Grieco


Jaliya Rasaputra

To Wish and Wish and Wish Properly

As a girl, I gorged on mulberries that grew in our yard, ruining so many dresses that my mother beat me. Every year she threatened to chop those bushes down,…

Fiction | January 2020 | By Katie Venit


Diogo Nunes

Swimming Home

Before I wake up, I’m in the middle of telling you something. I want you to fix the toilet, rake the yard, paint the shed. In my dream, I’m running…

Fiction | January 2020 | By Roberta Gore


Kristina Tripkovic

Powder Blue

She still hasn’t cried. Not really. She has tried, of course, especially at the funeral when it was expected. But when she isn’t angry, she is a hollowed-out shell that…

Fiction | November 2019 | By Molly Kelash


Maddy Baker

Busy Being Born

Your mother’s tight-lipped, anxious expression says that you have let her down. You weren’t the only one who had big dreams for yourself. Well, she’s let you down, too, and…

Fiction | November 2019 | By Lynn Knight


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