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2025 • Amy Shearn

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              Here’s the thing that people forgot in those first years when they were …

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The Most Cake • Paula Bomer

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  At least I wasn’t getting gang banged. Just smeared with cake, although it looks like cum, sort of, which …

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“The Best Solution” by Shya Scanlon

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After I finally freed the thing of its hulking V8, I celebrated with a cigarette from an old pack of …

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“Life Lessons,” by Sara Lippmann

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“People only want three things.” Here, Nan would pause. So we could fill in, Lucy with her answer, me with …

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“Big Hands” by Robert James Russell

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Photograph courtesy of Global Pillage. “But I feel invincible,” I say. Dusty’s driving us…somewhere. He might’ve said where we were going …

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“Galva, Illinois, 1983,” by Chad Simpson

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Maribel hasn’t heard from them in years, but of course they’re still together. They share an email address. When she …

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Spoilers • Tia Clark

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Jesse always wants someone to take her picture. It’s a combination of loving her freckled face and ensuring that the …

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“Hims” by Tasha Coryell

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She had always had this expectation that she would love love, but she didn’t. When she was chubby and acne-speckled, …

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Lighter and Brighter • Kevin Sampsell

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She said she hated my new haircut and clothes and why would I do such a thing and that’s not …

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“Dog Whistle,” by Jonathan Papernick

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When he was young, my brother David was the most beautiful thing: his long, girlish eyelashes; his pale, pink lips …

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Cat, by Philip F. Deaver

People Holding April 22, 2015 Antlers 1 Comment

Cat had her wrists tattooed, antlers. Antlers in black ink, from her wrists almost to her elbows. When I was with …

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Fudd, by Jesse Bradley

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Helen stops kissing me when she feels the loose change-sized scars scattered across my stomach and side. I murmur something …

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“Ellistown” by Camille Griep

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  To get out of here, you first need to find a way out of the Ellistown Zoo, home of …

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“Here You Go” by Joan Reilly

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Since you asked, here I am, and there they are. Don’t worry, I won’t sleep with them in there like …

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“Hunting Season” by Shira Feder

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The hunters would be drunk and careless, stumbling around the grounds in the bourbon softened haze that would blind poorer …

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“Lucky Once” by Stuart Snelson

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He was just a boy when his father first took him bone picking. Foraging, they searched for shed antlers. It …

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“The Heart of the Cage” by Dessa Bayrock

People Holding May 5, 2015 Antlers 1 Comment

Before I could tell Megan not to touch it, she raced ahead and thrust her hand in up to the …

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“Remember?” by M.M. De Voe

People Holding March 23, 2015 Antlers 1 Comment

MaryLou, I see on your Facebook page that you are married and have three young kids, but that does not …

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Death for Young Love • Kevin Catalano

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To do it right, to make pure the omen, we’d share the kill. Our first as a couple to be wed. We wait. We are good at waiting.

Bone Jones • Elvis Bego

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Krug would later remember a dream he used to have—but that will come later, when later comes. It was up …

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“Rack and Ruin” by Eric Williams

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“Rack and Ruin” by Eric Williams   The gods come down off the mountains only on fog-choked nights under a …

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“A Good Brain,” by Chelsea Laine Wells

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In Allison’s junior year her father’s illness worsened and he quit working. Her brother dropped out of college and upped …

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“Love, Cliff,” by Georgia Bellas

People Holding May 19, 2015 Antlers

He had made her a mixtape early on in their courtship. Put all his best stuff on it. John Prine …

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“Bowling,” by Gabriel Heller

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I liked bowling, even though I wasn’t any good. I liked how the ball came back through a mysterious tunnel. …

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“The Ceremony” by Laryssa Wirstiuk

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Gross, thought Ruby, before her cab driver bumped a sweaty female jogger as she ran into the street. With Ruby …

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“Match,” by Sherrie Flick

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His head pinned to the mat, his shoulder a flat wall of floor. The memory rush-floods Tony on Wednesday morning. …

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“Scorcher,” by Chauna Craig

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Someday it won’t burn, this smoke searing her lungs. And that, thinks Sylvie, after a long drag that shortens her …

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They Just Won’t Believe Juan Johnson is Dead • Tyler Barton

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Juan, on the den floor, once looked up from a book and said, “You’re my only people.” Which is why …

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Three-and-a-Half Billion Chances • Kendra Fortmeyer

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Joanie had bad teeth; no one would fall in love with her. We sat at her kitchen table drinking gin …

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The Four O’Clock Bird • Kathy Fish

People Holding June 22, 2015 Birds 2 Comments

The child knows the man with the patch over his eye is not really going to buy him a hamburger. …

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“The Plan,” by Ilana Masad

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Photograph courtesy of Global Pillage. The new baby’s endless squalls put Gloria’s plan into action. The baby was the result …

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“Charade” by Joseph Baran

People Holding August 14, 2015 Dolls 4 Comments

“He’s old but not blind.” Sarah looks at a photograph of her five-year-old son with two store-window dollies dressed as …

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FIRST PH… CONTEST WINNER! “Mercy,” by Barbara Harroun

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I am not in the photo. Uncle Jimmy, the blonde guy, gave me the camera for my 16th birthday. My …

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“Free Lunch” by People Holding

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My mother embroidered my jeans, but my sweater came with the flower already on it. We found these antlers in …

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“Roadkill” by People Holding

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I have no idea what animal these antlers came from. They seem crazy, like a mistake in growth, like what …

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“Bad Words” by People Holding

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Bad words I’ve learned: Shut Up, Stupid, Retard, Butt-face, Fuck, Liar and Jerk-off. My dad’s a butt-faced retard. I want …

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“Look Anywhere” by People Holding

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  Don says, “You’re smiling” and it sounds like a bad thing. He brought clip-on bangs with his camera equipment …

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“Bleeding Out” by People Holding

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It’s very cold. I’m stuck choosing between a winter coat and this hoodie pulled over my baseball hat. My friend …

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“Selfie” by People Holding

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I haven’t painted in a while. This was supposed to be a green screen.

“DEER CHILD” by People Holding

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Ladies and Demons! ~THE DEER CHILD~ ZYGMUNT WOJTEK and his Sole Companion ~the COUNTING RAVEN~ FROM THE MIRACULOUS SIGHTING AND …

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“What Else?” by People Holding

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He told me to stick my chest out. This isn’t one of the ones where I’m really doing it, this …

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“The Pause” by People Holding

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I’ve been holding these antlers for a long time. My wife doesn’t know how to work the shutter. It’s simple: …

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“In the Open” by People Holding

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This is where I live now! Thanks to Jerry Stuben and Mike Reade and lots of other guys who pitched …

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“Lawn” by People Holding

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Alice – my mother’s name, mine and my daughter’s (she’s an “Allie”). Husband Phil shot the moose and made a …

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“Ready? Ok!!” by People Holding

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Just kidding! These are NOT our new poms. Gotcha, guys. This is the first item donated to our annual auction …

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“My Brother, Who’s Home From College” by People Holding

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My brother who’s home from college told me to come down and stand in the garage. At night the garage …

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“I Think I Have This” by People Holding

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One Pilsner in and I’m already feeling good. I love afternoons when only one drink loosens you up and makes …

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“Symmetry” by People Holding

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I had to step to the right a little, then more, but I over stepped. He told me to move …

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“You’re Perfect” by People Holding

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It’s not my best smile. Shit. Now I feel awkward toward him, and this is the first time I’ve even …

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“My Parents’ Bedroom” by People Holding

People Holding February 18, 2014 Antlers Leave a Comment

I would make a great Goth. And I will next month, after recitals. My chin line is very round, but …

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