what happens when you watch jaws backwards

Poetry Sasha Fletcher

Outside the window

the freeway threw up enough cars

that they had to open a parking lot. People died

by the truckload...

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epitaphs #5, #19, #40

Nonfiction Matthew Vollmer

here lies a man who lost his virginity during his senior class trip to Grand Bahama Island but thanks to the storms that had gone before them their...

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Take Something Ugly

Fiction Michele Ruby

A window gave back the sky, but the window itself wasn’t ugly, just the building it was in. She saw the sun glinting off a piece of broken glass, turning...

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Weird Acrylics

Visual Art Fabio Sassi

Sassi makes his acrylics using both positive and negative homemade stencils along with found tiny objects like nuts, bolts, rings, clips, circlips, washers,...

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A Bridge and a Bouquet

Nonfiction Lois Greene Stone

I wasn’t even sixteen yet, and I could see my mother’s expression of ‘my daughter is getting older’. I didn’t know whether to shift my...

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A Reader’s Choice

Blog Leslie Maxwell

What do you all think about Hemingway’s statement? This way of putting the choice on the reader? Are there any contemporary examples that ask something...

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i shoot horses

Poetry Sasha Fletcher

I shoot horses. Or, I have.

I have shot horses. I have stood on a hill

and written you a long and involved letter

regarding my feelings....

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The Little Chairs

Nonfiction Ester Bloom

The men in my family are gone. My uncle, a software programmer for IBM who made the same Thanksgiving dinner every year since 1987 from a menu in Esquire,...

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How much does the audience get to know?

Blog Leslie Maxwell and Danielle Harms

And yet on the other hand, being a memoir writer apparently, to a lot of people, means that your entire personal life is fair game. Because...

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