At first, I hide the zigzag. I feel that people will misunderstand. I wear my mother’s enormous sweaters, the long-necked ones, and I keep my sleeves unrolled so that my wrists are lost in the…
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The Para-Ferry by Daniel Hunt
The ferryman watched the two men waiting for the boat. One was in a policie uniform, the other was not, but that was all the ferryman could see. He wouldn’t know more until he could…
The Fall by Amritha Dinesh
She had broken her own rule and opened the quarter bottle of brandy at four instead of six, when the crows noisily circled their homes.
“Salton Sea,” Gelatin Silver Exposure, 2017 by Kate Bove
Step 1. Exposure: My grandma wanted a burial at sea. It sounded like something beautiful—like something worth immortalizing in marble, or on canvas. An oil painting the size of a billboard. But this place is…
The Little Guide by Mia Castro
In an unknown village on the outskirts of a small town miles away from the city, a girl not more than six years of age lives. Three hundred steps from her home, there’s a small,…