Wixton Fen
by Sophia Adamowicz

Dry bones, wake from your sleep. Your home is scored with ditches, its groundwater drained. Only a thin river veins the grasses […]

Fairy Tale for a Good Girl
by Karen Baumgart

Dance music rips through the evening air, all pumping bass and no lyrics, but Suki barely hears it at first, her breath catching at fairy-lights tangled through trees lining the school driveway […]

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Divine Intervention
by Coleman Bigelow

On bended knee, he came to me. Well, it was more like an army crawl. “Get down!” he hissed. I was confused. Couldn’t he see I was already kneeling? […]

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My Life as a Bear
by Coda Canepa

 “When you were born, you were always changing,” my mom tells me at some point. How old could I have been, six, maybe seven? Old enough to remember, but only just. […]

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Platform
by Joe Luscombe

Eddie is eight and ajar.  He holds his Bluey backpack tight. It’s closed a bit, but open a bit on the escalator, coming down for the Edinburgh – London train. […]

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Things My Mama Taught Me
by Jude Potts

When I was maybe four or five;
I studied the transformative power of an audacious slash of crimson, the dark flutter of lashes, the cat-flicks of ink-lined drama. […]

Actually, It’s Never Okay to Punch a Velociraptor
by Keith J. Powell

Charlie arrived on crutches. An angry red scratch closed his right eye, his left leg was absent below the knee – both noticeable changes since the last time we’d brunched. […]

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The Prompt Says to Write About an Animal
by Beth Sherman

so I try. A zebra. He shows up after breakfast, munching the grass on my lawn. His gums are prominent. His breath smells like a gym locker. Familiar but not. What did you expect, he asks. […]

Smoking a cigarette with your Nana outside Cousin Linda’s baby shower
by Stephanie Torrance

 They always talk about the prolapses, you say. And the tearing. You don’t want to hear any more about the degree of tearing. Oh, was yours just a one Sara? That’s lucky. Mines was a four. […]

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Like and Subscribe
by Angela Townsend

Someone is adjusting the gooseneck lamp on her kitchen table, so the shadows won’t distract you. She pushes her chair a half inch back. It’s not quite right. She will try a different light bulb. […]

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1985
by Alison Wassell

Home for Christmas after your first term at university or, as Grandad calls it, loafing at the taxpayers’ expense when you should be working in a bank, somewhere with a smart uniform […]

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Last Year I Got My Septic Done
by Dan Weaver

Hey y’all it’s that time again time for my year in review! So many exciting things happened this year and I can’t wait to share them all with you it’s hard to even know where to begin! […]

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