Fiction: The Copse by Benjamin Goluboff
The first snow came early that year, and heavy. When the baby woke them up at first light it was piled upon the sills, grey on grey against the dimness […]
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Fiction: Knotted Virgin by Kristi Nimmo
Knotted It is exquisite the taste of paper. The glue dissolves in his mouth. He has eaten plum cake at the register and knows there will be a contest for […]
Fiction: Drop by Nathan Leslie
Day 2 “Jesus didn’t walk on water,” I say. “You know that, right? It was ice. Read an article said it was a cold snap and there were chunks of […]
Fiction: Jumping in and Falling Out by Christopher James
1 She’s staring into the pool, like the light might change and she’ll see her son on the bottom, tiny bubbles escaping his mouth, his face distorted by the water […]
Fiction: What the Living Claim by Heather Luby
The boys came running with news of a dead body catching flies in the empty lot bordering our street. We dared each other, double dared, threw burlas, until, at last, […]
Fiction: Fission by Mary-Jane Holmes
When the towers fell, a man came running at me shouting oysters, oysters in Spanish before crash – tackling me to the curb. I sank under the weight of him, […]
Fiction: Undoing by Kim Magowan
Reasons to do it: To get you out of my system. Because the reality of you can never match the fantasy– no matter how great you are, how skillful, how […]
Fiction: Photographic Memory #8 by Hun Ohm
Churchill River Estuary, Manitoba 2012. The promise was one of guaranteed encounters, but the outboard’s erratic putter raised concerns. There had been other signs. Gray patches adorned the Zodiac. The […]
