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OUR Works
Caressa Layne
The Calf
By Caressa Layne / Fiction / Turning a light on by the bedside, Etta found her housecoat and shoved one arm through, then the...
Shelagh Powers Johnson
Bound
By Shelagh Powers Johnson / Fiction / In her more brutal moments, Maeve would say that the wrong child had survived: when the...
Kristel Chua
Maid and Manananggal
By Kristel Chua / Fiction / In the rearview mirror, Yakima valley resembled a bowl of milk. Clouds swirled in ominous slow-motion,...
Maggie Riggs
The Snake
By Maggie Riggs / Fiction / Michael watched his shoes toss shadows down on the dry brown grass beneath the swing set in the...
Ines Rodrigues
Portraits
By Ines Rodrigues / Fiction / “…for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.” James Baldwin (“Giovanni’s Room”) ...
Marla Braverman
This is How the World Ends
By Marla Braverman / Fiction / “… papers that Israeli officials say were recovered from Hamas command centers show advanced...
Anthony Lee Head
Between the Lines
By Anthony Lee Head / Fiction / Only moments before, I had been driving towards a fiery ball glowing like a distant beacon on the...
Eve Newstead
Wedding Season
By Eve Newstead / Fiction / What they don’t tell you is that wedding season lasts years. If Maeve had known, she would have taken...
Monica Woo
Hear All Cries
By Monica L. Woo / Fiction / Born in 1964 in Patterson, New Jersey, Ryan was heir to a welder father and homemaker mother. His parents...
Alexa Hirst
The Miniaturist
By Alexa Hirst / Fiction / It’s the people inside that make this a home, the cross-stitch on Ava’s wall says. The pink thread words loop...
Christie Cochrell
Provenance
By Christie Cochrell / Fiction / The sound of angry voices rose up from the road below on Monday morning, Juliana's farmhouse under...
Paula Brancato
Tati
By Paula Brancato / Fiction / Halloween. 10 pm. Tati shows up at my apartment after her frantic call. I didn’t want to call her back,...
Jeanne Althouse
Death by Fire
By Jeanne Althouse / Fiction / It was the farthest north they had ever been. That this would be their last expedition never crossed...
José F. Ureña Martínez
White Ceiling
By José F. Ureña Martínez / Fiction / Raúl scanned his room. The carpet was vacuumed. Both beds were made—his and Diego’s. Clothes and...
Jenna Bly
Slackdrop
By Jenna Bly / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / Montreal, April 2005 The first part ended with a bird and the second part...
Helen Han Wei Luo
The Stone Man's Harem
By Helen Han Wei Luo / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / In the dark desert passage between Yilin and Langtougou, I...
Ber Anena
Visa Gods
By Ber Anena / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / The boda boda man carrying Owino pulled right up to the main entrance of...
Carolyn Mikulencak
Where the Thin Winds Worry
By Carolyn Mikulencak / Fiction / I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters. To you they have shown some truth. When shall we meet...
Martin Penman
Fitting Easton
By Martin Penman / Fiction / Nielson suspects that his client is a hybrid in the early stages of his development, but he’s not about to...
Gale Huxley
The Wild in the Woman
By Gale Huxley / Fiction / Elaine was found in the city woods, where a few too many walked. Her eyes had been half-digested in a...
Christie Cochrell
Salve Porta
By Christie Cochrell / Fiction / They never would find out what happened to the lady on the train. They’d been about to read the book on...
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