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Dawn Miller

Dawn Miller’s work appears in The Forge, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Pithead Chapel, Fractured Lit, and elsewhere. She is the 2024 winner of the Toronto Star Short Story Contest. Her stories have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and anthologized in Bath Flash Fiction anthologies and Best Microfiction 2024 and 2025. She lives and writes in Picton, Ontario, Canada.

The Love Boat

Dawn Miller

Jane’s hands tremble, her nails ragged. Fingertips pressed to her nose, she breathes in algae. Pondweed. Something else—something rotten. Through the window of the women’s shelter, a ship glides across Lake Ontario, the vessel decked out with lights that skip across the water—glitzy glamour like The Love Boat, that old TV showher parents used to […]