Category: Fall 2023
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Reasons for Living/Dying
by Devon S Roberts I should write about brains with enough chemicals to keep the fridge filled, the begonias alive, that exercise appropriate fear of open spaces. I want to want to write about nuclear families in a big pink house: Juno and their pink son, Finn. Juno makes sandwiches with beets and passion fruit…
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River of Fog
by Cameron Adamson
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Rocko in Technicolor
by Allison Steele
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Scratt the Squirrel
by Mya Schmidhauser
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Steinway
by James LaForge The old man stumbled in the dim morning light to find the “off” button on his alarm clock, cursing his cataracts under the contraption’s blare. He stood up as the cracking of his bones and the creaking of his floorboards sang together in harmony. His callused fingertip met the piece of machinery…
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Still Supper
by Katherine Moldow
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Target
by Jules-Arden Bernard
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The Age of Pride
by Maryn Anderson
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The Strange
by McKenzie Janisz An endless sea of doors ahead, condemned to test them all. Knowing the keys I have won’t work, I travel back and forth, and back and forth, wandering wall to wall. My hope wanes and waxes with the moon, a cyclical force of nature. A mockery, a trick, a cheat— my heart…
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the sunrise’s embrace
by Allison Contreras-Ortiz at 5 a.m., i used to rise, each morning to catch the sun’s first light. stepping from my warm embrace of slumber, i’d open my window wide, welcoming the dawn’s pour. in its brilliance, i’d willingly drown. beneath the daylight’s gentle glow, i stood, pondering, “is this how life should be lived?”…