I Fucking Hate the Portland Trail Blazers

Samuel Piccone Not a spread too big. Too brightly littered with faith. How long one can soften into night, I can’t say. There’s so much waterI hardly notice: the snow and snowing, the bathtub...

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Nuala McEvoy

“Old Fishmarket Street”Acrylics and acrylic pens on canvas “View From the Attic”Skylight Acrylics and acrylic pens on canvas “Leaving the Giant Chicken Spaceship in the...

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Your Mouth Gets Well

Lane Michael Stanley 2026 Fiction Contest Winner Content Warning: This story discusses the following sensitive topics: substance abuse and early recovery. We walk every morning at sunrise—not all...

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Below Parallel

Aurora Bodenhamer I didn’t learn how to read until I was twelve. In my first film, Love in a Blameless Land or How I Gambled It All Away, I was cast to play an intellectually disabled child. My...

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A History of Smoking, Hit-and-Run, and Monsoon Season: A Flash Collection

Matthew Torralba Andrews A History of Smoking   I miss when a visit to Tita Min’s house involved me holding a pretzel stick to my lips, mimicking my aunt, so confident and composed over her San...

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Rebecca Wood

“Lump in My Throat”colored pencil on wooden board Rebecca Wood is a full-time teacher and a part-time artist living in Prescott, Arizona. She earned her MFA in Fiction at the University...

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Robin Young

“Dinner for 2”collage “I Didn’t Invite Ewe”collage Artist Robin Young, based in Borrego Springs, California works in mixed media focusing mostly on collage and...

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Port Angeles, Summer, 2009

there is an abandoned house at the edge of my grandparents’ property line, behind a fence, barbed and electric. wheatgrass blends into the overgrowth, red fescue, thistle, knotweed. my grandfather...

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Oscillating Bathrub, 1899

Ross White Some technologies fail, and though I’m sure a few lucky bathers found oscillating tubs under their trees on Christmas morning at the turn of a new century, I bet by ‘01 those...

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The Day The Women Walked Out From Their Frames

Amanda Chiado Every woman displayed in the Museum of Ordinary Women left. Someone blamed the Mexican women in the big colorful skirts for starting the getaway song. Criminal magenta, fuchsia,...

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