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Of Archibald and the surgeon

Two Micro Fictions

2025-Nov-04 • Luanne Castle

The Night Mothman Crashed On Black Mountain And Other Lies I Told Myself

That night, Daddy did chop Mama up

2025-Aug-26 • Rachel Savage

We find God buried behind the old roller rink

The Rapture Machine

2025-Aug-26 • Joshua Walker

Most want no part of breaking the law

Any Day Now

2025-Aug-26 • Barlow Crassmont

Gemini of a Different Art Form

I did not want to be... in the constancy of undertow

2025-Aug-26 • Skinner Matthews

In the sting of cold saltwater

Tangled

2025-Aug-26 • Chris Carrel

It doesn't matter. Not when Harvey shows up.

When Harvey Arrives

2025-Aug-26 • Greg Lemon

Simply because it was not an impossibility

Archaeology

2025-Aug-26 • Salvatore Difalco

On the Inventional of the Mechanical Pencil or Why I Did Not Quit Today

How it locks into the whorls of my fingerprints

2025-Aug-26 • Zary Fekete

The north wind tears my rags of words

Called

2025-Aug-26 • Thomas Zimmerman

From The Editor (August 2025)

Laryngitis

When the snake wakes up

2025-Aug-26 • Louis Faber

Article

Thoughts and then some. No charge.

2025-Aug-26 • Victor D Sandiego

No, Perfect Is Better Than Done

Every morning, or sometimes in the day

2025-Apr-01 • Deepansh Khurana

Tone down the heated argument

SOS, Someone Said

2025-Apr-01 • Pamelyn Casto

You Can't Have the Cream Without the Meat

She saw everyone as a moral decapitee

2025-Apr-01 • Trilety Wade

Bounded by chain-link fence

Rooms of Memory

2025-Apr-01 • Sofia Ziegler

He reached up, then dropped his hand worried that...

A Wisp of Happiness

2025-Apr-01 • Louella Lester

The ocean’s retreat swallows the rockweed glowing golden in the morning sun

The Churn

2025-Apr-01 • Brenden Layte

Office of Complaints Against Change

to turn in my badge and parking placard...

2025-Apr-01 • Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Do the Best You Can With What You've Got

a chainsaw would make it easier

2025-Apr-01 • Brad Rose

the great molten wave was bearing down...

Last Day in Pompeii

2025-Apr-01 • Spencer Keene

My mother sensed there was something wrong with me

Born a Whale

2025-Apr-01 • Jackie Roberti

Took a spare Saturday, cut it out of a calendar and set it adrift...

My Last Trip

2025-Apr-01 • Esteban Colon

Props and paraphernalia can tempt the unchallenged...

Protection

2025-Apr-01 • Ken Poyner

Track 10 of Lucy Dacus’ Home Video

Your diagnosis has ruined you

2025-Apr-01 • Jacob Hatfield

Ngaben: at Pangkung Tiba Beach, Bali

The pyre devouring the golden adornments

2025-Apr-01 • James Penha

You ran too fast to see where asphalt ended

And They Gathered

2024-Dec-01 • CS Crowe

An early moon, a linden tree

Coming to Terms

2024-Dec-01 • Mercedes Lawry

Worry that this doesn’t worry me

equinox

2024-Dec-01 • Thomas Zimmerman

Sunlight in the dark smoky waters

Death Valley 2

2024-Dec-01 • Peter Cashorali

Against the light, across the panes

Windows

2024-Dec-01 • Patrick Cahill

But killing God’s representative on earth?

The King and the Pope

2024-Dec-01 • Mike Wilson

Wing meant to scare, to divert

Delirium--Hands

2024-Dec-01 • Jeff Burt

To discern notes, sounds, words and silence

Night in Seattle

2024-Dec-01 • Sarah Rohrs

Does it get the promised mileage?

After Yes

2024-Dec-01 • Ann Thornfield-Long

My mother’s brothers were her toolbox

I Am a Gold Coin

2024-Dec-01 • Roberta Feins

Where some think they recognize her

Tweed

2024-Dec-01 • M F Drummy

Are You Really an Ethical Person?

Middle of the Night

2024-Dec-01 • Howie Good

Wife slams her coffee cup down

Heart Attack

2024-Sep-01 • William Kitcher

Once I was stardust and knew the rotation of the earth

In This Diner

2024-Sep-01 • Elaine Mintzer

They came with hesitant knocks. Then stepped back.

How They Came – Part I

2024-Sep-01 • Thomas Elson

Grainy shadows of a paltry harvest

A Call for Thunder

2024-Sep-01 • Becky Parker

The Death of a Cicada In the Garden Among the Punishment of Life

Nearly unidentifiable in his handsomeness

2024-Sep-01 • Trilety Wade

The stars a stain, a naked plateau

Christmas

2024-Sep-01 • Constantia Geronta

People of God groan through their rage

Weeping

2024-Sep-01 • Claudia M. Stanek

Tabula Rasa

A small incision

2024-Sep-01 • Patricia Hope

What are your favorite symptoms?

Swimming Lessons

2024-Sep-01 • Brad Rose

After My Brother’s Surgery

Dusty Egypt in our noses, his body dried

2024-Sep-01 • Richard Bower

What will our children invent?

The Scourge

2024-Sep-01 • Ken Poyner

The blood and gunpowder of sunset made me proud and bitter

Colors

2024-Jun-01 • Peter Cashorali

Wax drips, strange lines in the scars

Ignite

2024-Jun-01 • Sarah Rohrs

Boots from lost working days lie askew at the door

Pastoral

2024-Jun-01 • Claudia M. Stanek

A Taste of My Own Medicine

All information is suspect

2024-Jun-01 • Brad Rose

A bird in the hand is just as much meat as proverb

From the sacred vessel, a slice of meat

2024-Jun-01 • Trilety Wade

In An Attempt to Navigate the Chaos

Which became my cocoon

2024-Jun-01 • Mercedes Lawry

Ask the Trees

The sun wears me down

2024-Jun-01 • Glen Armstrong

A wavering long sound like a train approaching

Harmonica

2024-Jun-01 • Jeff Burt

Feel the vulnerability of time and space

Work of Art

2024-Jun-01 • Patricia Hope

What Shall I Do With My Hands?

They must earn their scars like tender red trophies

2024-Jun-01 • Robin Shepard

Wounded, she falls on her side, pulls off the road

Horns

2024-Jun-01 • John C. Mannone

Daughter of slaves, vulgar display of wealth

Table of Contents

2024-Jun-01 • Cyn Kitchen

We need an orchestra, not happenstance

Just In Time

2024-Jun-01 • Ken Poyner

Article

From The Editor (March 2024)

Thoughts and then some. No charge.

2024-Mar-01 • Victor D Sandiego

Eulogy

2024-Mar-01 • Patricia Hope

The Room

2024-Mar-01 • William V. Ray

Night Sight

2024-Mar-01 • Pamelyn Casto

Time is Looped

2024-Mar-01 • Oleg Volkov

Candle

2024-Mar-01 • Brad Rose

The Trade-Off

2024-Mar-01 • Peter Cashorali

As If

2024-Mar-01 • Erin Jamieson

Are You Receiving Me?

2024-Mar-01 • Robin Shepard

Witnesses at the Ocean

2024-Mar-01 • Sarah Rohrs

Glaciers are the Gaolers of Floods

2024-Mar-01 • Trilety Wade

Conflagration

2024-Mar-01 • John C. Mannone

From The Editor (December 2023)

Granna

2024-Mar-01 • Nick Young

Article

Thoughts and then some. No charge.

2023-Dec-01 • Victor D Sandiego

Losing Enough

2023-Dec-01 • Pamelyn Casto

Excursus

2023-Dec-01 • Will Cordeiro

Just Go for It

2023-Dec-01 • Brad Rose

My Strange Rocker

2023-Dec-01 • Trilety Wade

The Fastidious Housepainter

2023-Dec-01 • Mercedes Lawry

The Blues Notes

2023-Dec-01 • Adrian S. Potter

A Ride

2023-Dec-01 • Sarah Rohrs

The Magician

2023-Dec-01 • Patrick Cahill

Dance

2023-Dec-01 • Nick Young

An Educated Audience

2023-Dec-01 • Ken Poyner