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OUR Works
Devin Santiago Dettman
When Did It Start to Hurt
by Devin Santiago Dettman / Fiction / I lay with my head on the grain of the picnic table. I’m sure it’s cutting shallow lines into my...
Emily Hessney Lynch
The Button Caverns
by Emily Hessney Lynch / Fiction / Kayla usually started and ended each shift with a lemon cookie. She wasn’t sure if Lucy started baking...
Alan Toth
The Kingpin of Red Bluffs
by Alan Toth / Fiction / Most people are a little confused when I tell them how I got here. They always want to know why I did it – where...
Ray Berman-Schneider
Cobblestone Secrets and Hummingbird Pins
by Ray Berman-Schneider / Fiction / My mother cried the day my grandfather died. This may seem like an appropriate response, but she...
Andrew Wingfield
The Prophet Rhonda
by Andrew Wingfield / Fiction / “The medicine will be there tomorrow,” the woman from the specialty pharmacy assured Oscar on the phone....
Chandler Gibb
Painting
by Chandler Gibb / Fiction / Madi sits tall on her stool with her palette in one hand and brush in the other. In front of both of us are...
Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez
Wooden Castles
by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez / Fiction / I’m sure you don’t think of me any longer, but today I’m thinking of you. I don’t know what it is...
Edward Belfar
The Feeling Circle
by Edward Belfar / Fiction / The community session convened at 8:00 each morning in the conference center, a low, rustic-looking,...
Chelsey K. Shannon
The Yellow Suitcase
by Chelsey K. Shannon / Fiction / Coco Bouldin wouldn’t cry about missing her train. Doing that would risk mussing her makeup and so...
Marilyn Ramirez
Zeluma's Prelude
by Marilyn Ramirez / Fiction / It’s never easy for a daughter to remember what kind of man her father once was. More specifically, a...
James Callan
Eyes on the Prize
by James Callan / Fiction / I saw her in a crowd. She? Maybe not. The sex sat right upon the edge, indeterminate. One angle revealed a...
Bruce Kamei
Stars and Chickens
by Bruce Kamei / Fiction / “Tell me about Chiyoko.” “In elementary school, there was the perfect Japanese girl. Every day she wore a...
Jeremy S. Ford
This is What We Do
by Jeremy S. Ford / Fiction / I remember the first night George Cabal came to Bar D’état because it was the last night I saw Sheridan...
Ona Marae
Ponytails and Popsicles
by Ona Marae / Fiction / Dulce sat in the closet, barely inhaling the musty air, flinching as she listened to the screams. It had been...
Jack Benzinger
The Tallier, the Destitute
by Jack Benzinger / Fiction / Afternoon sunlight pierced through the taxi driver’s windshield and blurred his vision, just as it had...
Anna Stolley Persky
The Highs and Lows of Stanley Huntsville Higgins
by Anna Stolley Persky / Fiction / Let’s face it, we’re all trying to get the best high we can, one way or another. If we’re honest about...
Jordan Nishkian
Wild Daughter
by Jordan Nishkian / Fiction / In grief, we keep. By the time Grandma died, her house had become a museum. This morning, when we...
Feng Gooi
Two Bags of Wanton Noodles, To Go Please!
by Feng Gooi / Fiction / Just as she reached out to take the bags of noodles, the woman suddenly stopped and stared at Yi Hong. She was a...
Christie Cochrell
The Persian Warrior
by Christie Cochrell / Fiction / During the night the fire had crept nearer to their house in the deep canyon north of town. But after a...
Thomas Penn Johnson
Summer's End
by Thomas Penn Johnson / Fiction / Green Mountain blackberries freshly picked in August provide the makings of a pie more highly prized...
Francis Flavin
The Stain of Absolution
by Francis Flavin / Fiction / The sun shining through the stain glass windows created a noon day gloaming in the cavernous nave. The...
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