October 15, 2014

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The Snow Children by Wendy Oleson

October 15, 2014

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Sarah never said it, but she agreed with the other kids that riding on the bus over Meredith Moore’s skull felt like riding over a big rock.

October 15, 2014

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Martha and Other Anomalies by Kerrin Piché Serna

October 15, 2014

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Martha and Other Anomalies by Kerrin Piché Serna

The pineapple was flying! It paused at the pinnacle of its arc, weightless, and then began its descent—slow, sinking, faster, faster—finally landing with a thump into the tall grass beside the road.

October 15, 2014

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Entr'acte by Mark Connelly

October 15, 2014

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Walking through the courthouse, Newman felt like an alumnus on a campus visit. Both at home and out of place. A collision of past and present.

October 15, 2014

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Cantaloupe by Karen Loeb

October 15, 2014

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The cantaloupe a friend gave us sits on the table. My father, who’s visiting from California, says, “It’s like a pumpkin waiting to be carved.”

July 15, 2014

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Summer 2014

F-Man by Colette Sartor

July 15, 2014

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Summer 2014

That voice. Gravelly, loud, insistent. “Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!” yelled over and over outside Mila’s building, six-thirty sharp, mornings and evenings.

July 15, 2014

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Summer 2014

Journeyers by Keely Bowers

July 15, 2014

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Summer 2014

Odessa Ross, widow and owner of the Fulton Hideaway Motel, was one of twelve who survived the grocery store massacre in Montgomery, Kansas, that April, and one of seven who escaped to the parking lot uninjured...

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

Depth Perception by Laura M. Gibson

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

Stu and I were the paramedics on call and the first to arrive at Rusty’s Saloon, where my Uncle Lou had died alone and upright in a booth at the back of the bar.

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

Missing Teeth by Bryan VanDyke

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

The ashen smell in the air reminded Bernie of trash fires in Cambodia. But then again, everything today reminded him of something else.

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

Driftwood by Morgan Thomas

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

The first time I saw the Daijli, he’d come into Uncle Lou’s shop looking for something hermosa to hold his vino de guava.

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

Berryman's by Guy Mitchell

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

I keep thinking something must have happened. Because you do, when people change.

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

Eminence by Caroline Casper

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

We once had to make a list of all the things we didn’t remember.

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

The Whores of July by Anthony Inverso

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

We threw a Purple Rain party because we wanted to fall in love.

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

The Hard Years by Emma Pattee

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

When Janey comes home, she brings the rain with her.

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

Philip's Experiences in Abnormal Psychology by Zachary Davis

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

Philip's Experiences in Abnormal Psychology by Zachary Davis

When I was a boy, firmly enveloped in those delightful pubescent years of changing voice and...

September 15, 2013

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Tu quoque by Jake Andrews

September 15, 2013

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Fall 2013, Raymond Carver Contest

The first ricochets off the pine tree to his left and rebounds from his jeans, rolling to a stop a few feet away.

September 15, 2013

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No Translation by Mona Awad

September 15, 2013

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Fall 2013, Raymond Carver Contest

I am letting you listen to Ahmed’s thoughts. It’s important that you know this, because he only speaks Arabic, he only thinks in Arabic, and that’s not a language you understand.