Dana Diehl Three years after the pilot’s wife died, her sister flew across the Atlantic Ocean to visit America for the first time. The sister’s name was Anna. Anna, the wild, redheaded, double-jointed girl from the photo albums. Anna, who’d fishtail chamomile into her braids in the summer and dive into the sub-zero...
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The Foot
Ryan Habermeyer Winner, Fiction Contest A foot had been uncovered from a sandbar the night after the solstice. Nobody was sure how long it had suffered there in anonymity as it had been found in the lonely sandbar a half-mile from the shore where insomniacs went to count waves. The first witnesses initially...
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Happy Thanksgiving
George Morgan Scott Unnoticed by the prattling guests, little Toby, twitching with the terrible twos, climbs up on the stuffed chair, totters, catches his balance, reaches for the security system control panel. He giggles as he presses several keys with his chubby little fingers. An earsplitting whooping blasts the room. “Toby!” his mother...
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Great Blue
Emily Rinkema I wake up because my father is at the door. “Want to go fishing?” he whispers, and I know it must be too early for school, too early to be waking up. The light in the hall is on, but he has been careful to keep my door partly closed, just...
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Sammy Kisses Archie
As he waits for a human voice, Dan remembers the look on his daughter Kelsey’s face at Christmas when she gave him a year’s membership to the over-fifty dating club.
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Presenting Phoebe 42.1: “Sammy Kisses Archie” by Mike Koenig, An Excerpt
The latest edition of Phoebe, issue 42.1, is printed and will soon be making its way into the hands of our readers. It’s jam-packed with great writing, some of which we’ve given you a glimpse of this week. If you want to cut to the chase and order your own copy of Phoebe 42.1, click here for...
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BOOK REVIEW: Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young
Blog Dan D'Angelo
The twelve stories that make up Mike Young’s debut, Look! Look! Feathers do a couple of shitty things to us: they castrate us, kidnap us, curse us, and choke us. And they provoke a loneliness that situates us with a company of friends, neighbors....
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Use Your Spoon
On the tips of bare toes, arm stretched so far it hurt, I placed the final red brick. This was the top of my tower. I had more Legos, but I could only reach so high. I stepped back to see what I had created.
It should have been a moment of triumph. But looking...
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Three Hearts
Wilma clutched her empty lunch sack and watched the jellyfish bob and sway out of rhythm with the Andean flute music the aquarium played on Mondays. It was her seventh visit to the jellies exhibit in almost as many days working here as an administrative assistant in one of the research labs. She always...
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Ithaca
Sometimes she found herself in a yellow room. She sat by the window or by the table or in a rolling chair. Just a gravel courtyard outside and a strip of brilliant sky. The smell of Lysol and lilies and dirty diapers. An Estonian woman sat in the far corner...
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