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Walking Back to Turtle

Henry Heavy Shield -

P.O. BOX 1293 1149 Laurier Place Edmonton, AB T5H 1P7 Dear Mr. Spotted Plume, I am writing on behalf of Mr. J. Ahkiskiw, author of the Savage Under Heart series (Plains Romances // Big Sky Press...

Long Beach Life Coach

Aaron Steven Miller -

The life coach sits on the couch. He sits on the edge, palms-to-knees. His chin stays up. Behind him, the light pierces the blind...

Songbun Song

Jessica Richardson -

Hyo washes his hands in hot water. He presses his nails into his cloth to remove each excess drop to ready his fingers for...

The Heat of Human Bodies

Colin Bassett -

The month Donny’s dialysis machine broke they both began to feel like their lives had settled somehow, like now the entire power grid could...

The Unknown Soldier

Molly Antopol -

Molly Antopol's debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is now available from W.W. Norton. Fridays were busy outside Alameda Point. Women shouldered past Alexi, coiffed and perfumed and in pumps...

The Somewhere Else

Victoria Hetherington -

An excerpt from Victoria Hetherington's digital fiction project I Have To Tell You (0s&1s, 2014). 1. DAVE When I was a kid I hung around with our grubby,...

Reinventing the Wheel

Chris Evans -

My next-door neighbours are really bad at fucking. It’s painful; I can hear them every third or fourth night just sort of futilely scrambling around on...

Beauty Queens

Brittany Lynn Goss -

Lisette can feel her little sister Vi watching her as the car speeds along. Vi is in the backseat and Lisette is up front...

Dear HauntedKnitz4U

Julienne Grey -

If it weren’t for your socks, I wouldn’t be on this roof. You have far and beyond the best online shop for haunted socks,...

Koreatown

Leah Bailly -

1. The Koreatown mission started like any other sunny four o’clock in Las Vegas. Yes, the sky was clear, the traffic humming along Charleston, Martin...