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Recent Fiction

My Broken Brain, by Angie Ellis

I keep a list of songs I know well, so that if I get dementia people can reach the real me hidden inside my broken brain.

Recent Poetry

Five Short Poems, by Simon Perchik

These gravestones left stranded / warped from sunrises and drift / —they need paint, tides, a hull

Recent CNF

Freddy Krueger is Not Real, by Dina Peone

I was under the covers in my sister’s bedroom, deep asleep, while flames spread from a nearby candle.

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Adultery

Mar 13, 2012

by Janice D. Soderling

One day he was cock-of-the-walk, full of jokes and juice, strumming his guitar, waxing the big fins on his red Chevy, knowing another woman in the biblical sense.

Günther’s Tree

Mar 6, 2012

by Lois P. Jones

Because you are strong. / Because your branches span out ahead of you. / And in so many years, age has allowed breadth to match height.

Closer

Feb 29, 2012

by Sarah Hina

Brake lights on a highway. Not her favorite sight. It must be an accident. Or road construction. Either way, it wasn’t right. Not when they were so close to home.