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Tag: fantasy

“Loch Ness Monster in the Rain at Night” by David Henson

Posted on February 21, 2022

A fang of lightning crashesa branch into the wind-clawed loch. Thunder drives eels to the bottom. Water flashes downa mountain rising through the skin of the lake.The monster loves the […]

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“The Sky Traveler” by Dan Yokum

Posted on December 6, 2021

When I remember to look, I will see her. At least that’s what usually happens. I work on the high hill in the towers of academia where I pretend to […]

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“Searching for The Cottingley fairies” by Kim Malinowski

Posted on September 17, 2021

I. Snapshot Click. WHIRR. Shadowed still frame capturing fae.Ethereal grace magnified by child’s wonder.Muted only by adults’ misunderstanding “genuine.”Why would fae be less real if crafted by paper?Paper and glue […]

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The Metaworker Podcast – Meditations on Water by Stella Meadows

Posted on July 28, 2021

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, Elena, and Melissa talk to Stella Meadows about her brilliant nonfiction (as well as what makes brilliant nonfiction in general), identity, introspection, LGBT+ representation in art, […]

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“Boy, Deer, Chair” by Sam Asher

Posted on July 9, 2021

There’s a cloud in the room that the boy knows as ‘vapour’, knows it in the way he knows his emotions, knows it in the way you know your name. […]

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“Rangoli Man” by Mina Rozario

Posted on June 11, 2021

Maya’s entire town had awoken one morning to find swarms of people milling outside their doors, their skins a mottled mix of colors: sunny yellows, rich crimsons, deep blues, and […]

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“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts

Posted on March 15, 2021

She’s even made the bed where another man will rape her. The swine have been slaughtered, the silver’s been laid. Everything’s ready. She scans the room once more. She’s always […]

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“Transformations” by David Henson

Posted on February 5, 2021

Mom’s breathing was shallow, her skin rough, hair green. I glanced up and saw my father, Fred, checking his phone as his wife of almost 40 years transformed. Fred and […]

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“On Perfumed Wings it Ascended” by Andrew Johnston

Posted on September 21, 2020

When the dragon first wound its way through the fragrant mist that swallowed the mountain, most had no reckoning of its nature. It was a myth, one the wise and […]

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“Cattail Confessions” by Hannah Melin

Posted on April 20, 2020

I’ve fallen in love with all of them. How could I not? With their skin so soft I can watch it give way beneath my fingerprints like silt at the […]

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“Tree Song” by Melissa Reynolds

Posted on March 23, 2020

I have stood for over a hundred years in this place, endured the idiots who link hands and try to encompass my bulk, observed the overprepared hiker complete with stuffed […]

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“Romulus” by Charles Rafferty

Posted on August 5, 2019

It wasn’t like that. Our mother suckled us for years in the rank, familiar den. She chewed the deer meat until it was a fine paste she could drop into […]

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“Death of Whydah Sibyl” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

Posted on February 4, 2019

Stand at ocean-side, exhale screams cut through dense air, her throat tightens releasing weird screeching caterwauls. The ice melts and Sibyl climbs the tower; in gown of white with gold lace; coat-less, […]

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“Coming Home” by Ray Cicetti

Posted on October 23, 2017

Once there was a man who found a forest in his pocket. When he came home after a day’s work he would take it out. His house would fill up […]

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“A Fairy Tale About War” by Matthew McAyeal

Posted on September 11, 2017

Once upon a time, there were two big kingdoms and two small kingdoms. The two big kingdoms were called Khakia and Doogland. The two small kingdoms were called Bibbleton and […]

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“The Watcher” by Jenna Crosier

Posted on May 1, 2017

Every year, from the first I was assigned to the graveyard, I would watch the headstones from my place upon the highest pine tree. My job was to make sure […]

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Writer Interview: Steven Jay, Creator of Hypervision

Posted on November 18, 2016

Writing isn’t only for novelists or poets. Screenwriters are writers, too! Below is an interview with Steven Jay, the writer and creator of an upcoming web-series called Hypervision, which is […]

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“A Dream About a Sky That is a Sea” by Meli Ewing

Posted on February 1, 2016

I am getting off the school bus at the top of the driveway in the afternoon on a Friday. In real life, there were only two years where my parents […]

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“The Last Time I Spoke to Penelope” by Matthew Maichen

Posted on September 21, 2015

She led me out of my house in the middle of the night. I went with her because she was moving away the next day, and because I loved her. […]

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