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“Meditation in an Office Tower” by Dale Cottingham

Posted on March 4, 2022

Thrusting one creased pant leg in front of the other, canter-leaving ankles, knees, thighs, my leather shoes clacking slate as I amble toward and away, in one motion. Steel, sheets […]

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Microfiction by Megha Nayar

Posted on January 10, 2022

Grievances David calls as I’m retiring for the night. “You really need to stop spoiling that dog, Mom!” he begins without preamble when I pick up. “How many more plushies […]

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“All my Ex-Employees are Crazy” by Joel Robert Ferguson

Posted on December 17, 2021

The polar bears are circling us, the John CageChristmas mix, the hors d’oeuvres and those bodies that servethem. adjacent, a sealkeeps practising the same underwater back-flipoff the glass we’re standing […]

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“Brutal Roux” by Elyse Jancosko

Posted on October 22, 2021

Becca add morebutter Becca. That’s no way tomake a roux. Don’t just measure on a whim.Your flour and fat. Or fluid and fault.Meat drippings, maybe. That ratio. That ratio!That’s what […]

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“Neighbor” by Darrell Petska

Posted on March 22, 2021

on his roof checking shingles for fleasscouring the ground for alien invaders Hey Don! I say, but he’spolishing tools till his face smiles backdigging more holes to Chinaparing trees to […]

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“I Spit Dust” by Darin Milanesio

Posted on April 24, 2017

The fog was making whispering sounds It was rising up from the earth Like spirits from the past   I spit dust from my mouth Just to prove I’m a […]

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