Fiction: The Planner by Paul Jaskunas
I turned forty and decided I needed a plan. If I didn’t have one, I’d live and live without getting ready. That’s just how I am. So the day after […]
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Spinster, Shrew, Harridan by Amy Kiger-Williams
What is a harridan, anyway?
Fiction: Skywatch by Jessie Lovett Allen
No, this isn’t anxiety—anxiety is defined by uncertainty. But she is certain.
Fiction: Whiskers by Karen Smythe
I leaned down and kissed her hand, and I didn’t care if people looked. She was my mother, after all.
Fiction: People by Ron Riekki
It’s funny what a sentence in a book can do. It sticks in your head. Lies seems to stick even harder than the truth.
Fiction: Fish by Julia Gerhardt
She talks about these fish like they’re men who cheated on their wives.
Fiction: We Closed Our Eyes Together by Melissa Benton Barker
I wonder if each life has its own ration on love. I wonder if I’ll know when mine has run out, how I’ll know when the right time comes to spend it.
Fiction: “Seed” by Noley Reid
There’s just no saving this.
Fiction: The Odd Job by Ian Anderson
“No one knows what’s going on in here.” He pointed to his chest or his head, I don’t remember.
Fiction: Unraveling by Gregg Williard
A lap full of pulled threads piled up looking like spiraling incense ash, something to read your fortune in.
