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Author Spotlight: James L. SutterWhile I may not be a mother, there were other elements of the narrator I could resonate with in order to access her voice. In many ways, she...
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To Cheer as They Leave You BehindShe comes early, forcing you to reschedule meetings from the car as Alan drives, white-knuckled. You don’t mind---sending contract notes while in...
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Reviews: December 2022Of late I have gravitated to reviewing one book and one movie, a mixture that is more or less appropriate even if it also leaves me feeling...
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Still BreathingIt’s difficult to make sense of death. Intellectually we understand it, but emotionally there is uncertainty and fear and grief and anger. This...
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Author Spotlight: Mari NessLike most of my stories, “Wallers” started out with a simple sentence: “The day her mother brought Mr. Nelson home, Martha faded into the...
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WallersThe day her mother brought Mr. Nelson home, Martha faded into the wallpaper. It seemed the safest thing to do. Martha had never met Mr. Nelson, but...
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The H Word: A Celebration of Sonic HorrorYou’re gonna love this band. They’re fucking terrifying . Horror fans often talk about disturbing books and movies, but music rarely enters this...
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Three Symptoms of a DisasterParkinson’s and Alzheimer’s run in the family---both paternal grandparents had it, now my father, and it often feels like a neurological heirloom...
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Editorial, December 2022It’s issue #123 and our last one of 2022. But now it’s time to take a cue from the weather and bunker down under our blankets. Winter calls for...
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Author Spotlight: Emma Osborne, Jess Essey, and Cadwell TurnbullWe wrote this story during Clarion West when we collectively fell in love with the music of Be Steadwell after attending her concert with our...
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Break the Skin If You Have ToThe base of my skull buzzes as I pick up some bleach and a new scouring pad from the market. I’ve been away from my house for too long. When I get...
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Panel Interview: Lee Murray, Geneve Flynn, Angela Yuriko Smith, Christina Sng, Rena Mason, and K.P. KulskiDon't miss this conversation between the team of editors and writers behind three amazing linked projects exploring the representation of women of...
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For You Were Strangers in EgyptThis poem is one in my @notaleptic series of poems where the Twitter bot of the same name provides the first line or lines. I wanted to put a...
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Author Spotlight: Amanda SongI’ve always been interested in laughter as a behavior. It is such a strange phenomenon---how physical it is, and also how it can be so sudden,...
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Only When You LaughTwenty-four hours to go. The Ultus Theater was all lit up, the marquee emblazoned with his name, glowing in the haze of the heavy rain. Laffing...
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The H Word: Sole Survivor“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” These are Detective Lieutenant...
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Ant TwinWhen you learn a fact like the one that opens this piece---that all the ants on Earth add up to the same weight as all the people---you want that...
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Editorial: November 2022Welcome to November, a month I’ve always had mixed feelings about. It’s a time here in the Pacific Northwest when the trees finish transitioning...
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Author Spotlight: Gordon B. WhiteThis story started from what began as, and remains, the first line: “The caveat is that I’m going to lie to you.” (In fact, the original working...
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Devil Take MeThe caveat is that I’m going to lie to you. That’s how confessions work, isn’t it? There are those things that even though we want to confess, we...
