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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
SOS
No, I didn’t know Trevor all that well, but, you know, I saw him around.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Seagulls
He’d said I was part-seagull, and he was too.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Traitor
To me it’s like he’s holding open a door behind which lies a shiny new future, a bright new beginning, and all we have to do is walk through and ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Sorrow
“The shape of her grew smaller and smaller until she was only a speck at the edge of the road.”
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Diamond Studs
“I always wanted to build a house beside the lake with her. It would’ve been a place where we could grow old and fat together and be buried in the ...
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – Milena’s Wedding
Art, Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Essay, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – Where Art Thou Heart: Visual Language Lost on Deaf Eyes
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Litro #182: Experimental – The Book Fight
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental Edition
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – Parenthetical
we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – An Imbalance of Pineapple, in One Act
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – A Rogue Cure
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Come for Me
We swung in the wooden swing, creaking back and forth, or rocked in paint-pealing chairs while she and my parents talked of weather, war, politics, or relatives.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Big Boxes and Bigger Rooms
Do you think that time makes it harder to feel, or harder to pretend you’re not?
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Buoyancy
“And these things that happen to us. They don’t just live in the past. They echo.”
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Melusine experiment: lab notes [fragment]
Puddle onto concrete and thrashing, weaker-weaker before subsiding to limp stillness.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Wife
I liked Ben enough. I didn’t love him; I could never love someone so whole.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Bus Driver
He drives a bus, he lives above a shop, he drinks cheap wine, and he is now alone.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Prepare to be Amazed
His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn.
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Liminal Life
I’m not having a bad time. It’s just a time.
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