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"Sometimes Marriage Is a Butterfly...Sometimes It’s a Six-Eyed Sand Spider" Shannon Frost Greenstein

Full Title: Sometimes Marriage Is a Butterfly, and Sometimes It’s a Six-Eyed Sand Spider Part One: On Family and Mortal Fear “…and so I...

Memoir: "Little Things" by Sandra Meunier

T/W - Anxiety, mental distress and suicidal thoughts It is the little things, the ones that matter. You forget about them, because they...

Memoir: "I Thought You Said You Were Sick" by Dave Clark

A lump of shame spread throughout me as the doctor laughed, his whisper-white office adorned with degrees and expertise and cynicism....

Memoir: Three pieces from "Here is this Amalgam of Writing" by Mike Ferguson

Cloud Exploding Over Ottery A cloud like this in the bluest skies of a calm day explodes in the most pervasive silence; that it erupts...

Memoir: "An Open Letter to My First Best Friend" by Fransivan Mackenzie

I stopped by your old house today. That little apartment by Najat St. looks the same as the last time you were there. The walls are...

Essay: "On Short Story Characters" by Sam Reese

‘The quiet power of these stories lies in their intimacy and tenderness.’ – Naomi Booth, author of Exit Management ‘An ardent observer of...

Memoir: "Treasure Seekers"

It wasn’t what we went looking for. We went for flint axe heads. The farmer, before my parents, had found axe heads beside the crumbling...

Memoir: "The Gecko"

Anxiety in the house is starting to raise like the marsh around our boots as we stomp through the woods that run from our garden to the...

Memoir: "Grandmother"

The sheets are always soft, even with lint sliding across them. Squeezed between the large pillows are a few smaller needle-pointed ones....

CNF: This Boy Bags Ghosts

This boy vacuums the taxidermy. Moves the black nozzle over still-soft hair, over pink-veined ears, polished noses, thick necks. This one...

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