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Maura Elizabeth Manning
May 9, 20243 min read
Tango
It was the music, you see. Slithering down alleyways, orange and white and gold. She could see it move through the air…the color. It had...
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D.J. Tyrer
Apr 22, 20241 min read
What Measure a Man?
As sun slowly swells, reddens DNA is nothing more than a plaything Take a little of this, a little of that See what you can make...
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Michael J. Barrington
Apr 19, 202410 min read
Magic at Stonehenge
An icy November wind swirled the dense mist over the Salisbury Plains almost obscuring Stonehenge. Professor Isaac Cedric Effingham,...
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C.W. Bigelow
Apr 19, 20247 min read
Escalator To Where?
The call woke Peter at 4 AM. At that time of the morning, it meant either a death in the family or his boss alerting him to an...
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Gargi Sidana
Apr 14, 20241 min read
Void in Sleep
An alpha-coexisting ray drooling over the magnetic flux of the brain. The brain that links the magnitude of grief and void. The void is a...
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Renee Coloman
Mar 27, 202410 min read
Robby’s Come to Play
The moment my morning alarm triggered me awake, I couldn’t help but recite the numbers swirling and twirling in my head. Happy numbers....
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Stanka Bajlozova-Barlamova
Mar 25, 202411 min read
Diamond
I am standing on the roof of one of the largest high-rise buildings in the city. The streets bridge each other and turn into road bends,...
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Issy Jinarmo
Mar 16, 202411 min read
A Different Style of Green
I held tightly to the safety rail in the shower, my head lowered, warm water running over my hair and down my back. It was comforting but...
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James O'Brien
Mar 14, 20248 min read
My Beautiful Oubliette
I find the dark imperious, tyrannical, ambiguous, infallible but capable of kindness. It has many personalities. During each of the seven...
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Aether Avenue Press
Mar 13, 20241 min read
Surrendering To The Surreal, Anthology 1
Step into the fantastical realm of "Surrendering To The Surreal", an anthology that defies the boundaries of reality and beckons readers...
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LaVern Spencer McCarthy
Mar 12, 202410 min read
Aunt Maizie
School was out for the summer, and Willard and his twin brother, Dillard were happy. They couldn't wait to spend their days sleeping...
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Rekha Valliappan
Mar 8, 20245 min read
Canopy of Moving Parts
Part 1 “A canopied necropolis of moving parts I must enter? But, why?” “More an untamed zoo of remaining parts that loops, re-loops....
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J.R. Packard
Mar 7, 202411 min read
The Possum And The Plum
The 1st Day One day in late May, there lay a plum tree in an orchard beside a small knick knack shop. Suddenly, a plum fell from that...
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William Bryan Smith
Mar 6, 20247 min read
"I Hope Yesterday Will Be The First Time We Never Met", Part 2
Sea of Tranquility (the Moon) July 20, 1969 “Oh, cool,” she remarked, flatly. “The Moon.” “We need to talk.” “It’s not you,” she said....
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William Bryan Smith
Mar 5, 20248 min read
"I Hope Yesterday Will Be The First Time We Never Met", Part 1
He had not spoken to her since the French Revolution. The spaces between the galaxies were long and dark. On this side of the universe,...
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Jenna Calloway
Mar 4, 202411 min read
Ms. Wyld's Ride
Patrick held on to the struggling marine biologist, having managed to inject the sedative into his neck, and yearned for his days of...
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Tom Folske
Mar 3, 20246 min read
Bad Compensation
Oswald Erickson and his nine-year-old granddaughter Cynthia were cruising down the main road of the small town of DeSantis, population:...
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Ben Nardolilli
Mar 2, 20241 min read
You Are Safest in This Car
Calling this a roomette seems unfair, limiting it to the simulation of a hotel’s four stationary walls, a brief survey of the assigned...
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Ben Nardolilli
Mar 2, 20241 min read
Cosmopolis Weather
Sandstorms drift through this old utopia of ours, They blanket the gardens and fill in the pools, Our dream of a paradise in the city...
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Cathy Tonkin
Mar 1, 202412 min read
A Haunting of Oakwood Manor, Part 2
Part 9 I looked up hauntings in the area and learned that many folks believe that Duluth’s Enger Tower is haunted. While the park is...
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