Tag: 54.1

Team Player

Shanley Kearney Content Warning: This story contains depictions of and discusses the following sensitive topics: disordered eating, self harm.   14 Days to State Semifinals  This is my fourth scale...

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Icaria

Korey Hurni The day after his myth began, Icarus had to return to the trophy bar to pick up his credit card. This time molted, reeking of cheap plastic, feeling as though he crashed far out in some...

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American Dreaming

Alex Bernard Li Content Warning: This story contains depictions of and discusses the following sensitive topics: racism, spousal and child abuse.   RACIAL RESTRICTIONS. No property in said Addition...

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At the Service Academy

Patrick Kindig The students I teach are more likely to die than most. Horribly & soon, I mean—in battle, or in that skull- numbed moment before. Or simply by a stray bullet skimming the floor...

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Into Each Waiting Pocket

Kindall Fredricks When I saw Margo on Tinder, I had only just broadened my search criteria to include women. Having just broken up with Jeremy—another sudsy all-American boy who treated the...

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The Sacrifice of Small Things

Robert Mata We fished all summer. My father taught me to bait a hook with a worm, then a minnow, then a crayfish. Learning torture like Russian dolls, each body a grosser, wider death. The cooler...

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