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Story of Girl

Sarah Jane Cody -

The girl knows too much. The girl is only six, but to her mother her eyes appear old. It’s as if the girl stole her...

Hurricane Watch

Eileen Elizabeth -

I am looking for a language of grief to mourn someone still living. When I was small, I would pull down the sun visor of...

Reckonings

Brock Clarke -

I saw a headline on the internet that read “White People Need to Reckon with Atticus Finch’s Racism.” What did I remember about Atticus Finch?...

Survivors

Lauren Green -

Mason did not speak the entire ride home. He sat instead staring out the window, arms folded across his chest. It was the middle...

In Which the Writer Speaks to Her Literary Merit

Zoë Ruiz -

My literary merit is a tweet at 9:01 on Saturday night. No likes, zero RTs. The tweet is about goats. Saturn squares my Aquarius Moon and Venus...

Antipode

Amina Kayani -

A man comes in around 2:30 for an appointment I forgot to write down. He is slight, his back hunched like a misshapen hanger....

The Decision Thread

Sarah Priestman -

I died, for a moment, after careening off a ski slope and slamming into a tree, belly to trunk, arms winged wide. I’d been...

A List of Things I Have Used the Knife for Thus Far

Alexander Lumans -

It’s best not to mention the wedding at all—let alone the bride. It’s better to recall the last visit, with her, to the art...

Sidekick

Dalton Monk -

It’s the coldest day we’ve had this October, and Kyle’s out there jumping on my old trampoline. Me and Dad are at the window...

A Beauty in Dying

Stéphane Martelly -

The following story was translated from French by Katia Grubisic. It was originally published in French in Boustro 4, 2017 “...red earth does not dry...