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Last Winter

Valerie Kemp

I forgot how cold winter can be. The frigid air is a thousand tiny pinpricks on my face as I follow Caleb down the path between our houses. “Come on, Kiki,” he shouts at me over his shoulder. His breath is a thick white cloud against the night sky. “California hasn’t made you soft already, […]

Clairvoyant: Chapter 1

Christen Fisher

They’re coming for me, gaining ground with every stride. If they catch me, they’ll tear me apart just to see what’s inside. The path—if you can call it that—is uneven and dark. I strain my eyes against it out of habit, but there is no light here. I run faster, propelling myself deeper into the […]

It All Makes Sense Now

CeCe Heard

Remember the times your dad poked fun at you by imitating that silly cartoon and asking if you wanted to be a boy. Remember the times you felt more connected to your boy stuffed animals and had more fun voicing toys that were boys. Remember the times you only wrote stories from the perspective of […]

And Then We Sailed Away

Danielle Ranucci

I walked into our shack holding a dead seagull. I’d come all the way from the beach with hunger stabbing my stomach, clutching that bird in my fist and refusing to eat it because Amos needed it more. My younger brother’s dark head jerked up from where he was whittling at the kitchen-table. I grinned […]

With a Doll You Are Never Alone

Simone Martel

We were one of the first to receive the baby doll. Our package arrived on a Saturday morning last September when Kamran and I had been living in our dream apartment in San Francisco’s Mission Bay for about a month. Just a year ago native grasses and weeds thrived in the sandy soil near an […]

Float

Chelsea McLin

I liked the way her hand danced with the wind. The air felt harsh blowing against my face in the backseat, but Osh made it seem like her and the wind were good friends. Her other hand rested low on the steering wheel. She was undeniably cool. I made a mental note to drive just […]

A String of Paper Dolls

Sage Tyrtle

We all agree that Michelle K. gets first dibs on the new boy. Her hair’s the longest, and besides, her last boyfriend had a Corvette and was in university. When Michelle K. was going out with him Lisa was all, “But why can’t a twenty-five-year-old find someone his own age to date?” and we were […]

Long Live The Girl Detective

Megan Pillow

The Girl Detective reads about her death on Twitter. She is surprised. She doesn’t remember much from the night before—a bar with Bess and George. A man. A drink. A struggle. A stumble home in the dark—but she is The Girl Detective. She can’t be dead. She has hamburgers already pattied for dinner tonight. She […]

Yes / YES

P. H. Low

You wake to hunger. A full-body clench—crimson cramp of stomach, jagged throat, every fiber of your body wrenched and keening. A cloth dabs slick afterbirth from your up-flicked ears, and perhaps you sense the hand that holds it is like your own, cream-soft palms and nails like pink moons—perhaps the throb in those blue-green veins […]

Paper Tents

Sallona Ramesh

Maybe after all is said and done we’ll sit down, for a cup of tea and laugh and cry, about what could have been to talk about how in my moonless plight you would sometimes, loan me your star, for the night. . We trusted so firmly in the cloudless sky and moved, into paper […]

Shedim

Sara McKinney

On the first day of the Divine Feminine Kabbalah Power Retreat, it’s “hello my name is and I work in” with the other women executives over kefir and kombucha, everyone looking jetlagged and itchy in the natural fiber robes and vegan leather sandals we’d been handed at check-in. Hello, my name is Stephanie and I […]

The Whereabouts of Abel Crane

Rory Say

There came an evening when, returning home from filling his lungs with rank seaside air, Abel Crane noticed a light in his living room window. The sight froze him. He had never seen a room of his house lit from outside before. Finally, he removed his spectacles and wiped their lenses on the quarters of […]

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