Manda is holding together work, motherhood, class inheritance and a mind close to cracking. In “Filia,” care becomes ritual: for children, for guinea pigs, for memory, and for the self ...
After New Year’s Eve, a husband and wife move into separate rooms. What follows is a precise, unsettling story about emotional hunger, self-deception, and the domestic objects that absorb both.
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A daughter tends to her mother on a weather-beaten coast, where memory falters but old phrases remain. A restrained, devastating flash about care, inheritance, and the strange intimacy of letting ...
Four Tuesday Tales about the moment ordinary life turns unstable. These stories find dread not in spectacle but in rooms, routines, and relationships beginning to slip out of shape.
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When I was twelve years old, before I knew girls were not allowed to play professional baseball, I would take a tennis ball, throw it hard against the half-finished ...
Grief takes root in a garden — and the tree begins to answer back.
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A clear-eyed essay on grief, disbelief, and the private myths we build to survive the end.
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A city night, a moving car, and a voice trying to make sense of what can’t be fixed. In “The Prayer,” MB Munroe writes grief as ritual — the kind ...
A childhood near-miss, a plane in the sky, and a charm hidden for survival—then years later, a return to the building where memory lives in the air.
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There was an old oak tree several blocks from our house that stood like a grand dame with a thick trunk that narrowed slightly in the middle and, at about ...
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Dedication in a book about Japanese technology
To my son, who was also made in Japan
Shelf C8. Box 3d
He wears a hat that makes him look like a Smurf, and ...
A mother’s language begins to slip and her son realises the jokes have teeth.
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As the fields are stripped bare, a family faces what’s left after the season ends. “Harvest” folds weather, work and memory together in a quiet reckoning with rural life, inheritance ...
A night in the ward where love and procedure meet. Grief, clipboards, and the soft hum of machines. What bureaucracy can’t name, the body supplies.
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A granddaughter takes a forbidden drug from the dark web to give her grandmother one last taste of life. Julia Fausing’s story explores love, risk, and the price of mortality.
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In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end.
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You can have anything you want, Honey, says Grandma, don’t mind your mother, who picks up her coffee and drinks it like she’s stopping a scream.
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Experience the cinematic magic of Christmastime. This flash fiction captures the interplay of festive pasts and presents in a timeless film reel.
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Unveil the emotional journey of a mother in “The Spiral and the Sticks.” Delve into the intricacies of budgeting, family bonds, and the magic that turns an affordable off-season holiday ...
“There was a lot of spite in our family.” A story of explosive grief and simmering tensions in a family who struggle to come together.
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