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Invisible Woman

Michelle Sierra Laffitte -

My eyes follow the grape-sized snowflakes that tumble on the red sandstone of the Washington Place townhouses, on Dorsey Park’s Christmas spruce tree, and on the...

Lover Number Ninteteen

Alina Grabowski -

Bryan - Resembled my father to a startling degree, which means, according to psychology, that I should have been attracted to him. But my father has...

Gling Gling Gling

Bud Smith -

A woman tapped the cartoon cherries and teal diamonds on the cellphone screen as she steered through town with her knee. The game went ...

Oysters

Aaron Burch -

Pilot went first. First because it was his family’s cabin, first because he was going to show us proper form, how to do it....

Flag Girl

Aram Mrjoian -

Wearing a confederate flag as a cape, a suntanned girl walked across the muddy fairgrounds of rural southeast Michigan, her bare skin shining in...

Silence Turned to Music

Ashley P. Taylor -

One. Alone. She Stood alone. With Music, yes. But Really all by her self. Alone. Be- gan to play the Harsh chords that Begged help me Out. Beat one was a...

Boat Building

Cory Mimms -

George watched a little red-brown spider build a web in the bushes. He sat on the porch stoop; fat pollen drifted...

White Walls

Darley Stewart -

We lived then in North Haven, beautifully by most standards. My mother and father and me — I was by all accounts a beautiful child,...

Today is Cool

Julie Mannell -

I think each time I try to kill myself I don’t actually want to. I emailed Jude through his girlfriend Audrey because Jude had...

Her, Guts and All

RS Deeren -

The agreement started with Rid Bellows Sr. He owned the most plowable earth north of Caro, a 1400-acre tract whose western boundary snuggled up...