Volume 9 Number 1

Gypsum and Ash

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Regarding the Owls

I marveled at the thin path the deer cut from the lake, through the field, along the crooked teeth of the fence, past the stiff…

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Cutting to the Chase

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In Which Miss Alabama, 1961, Sings the Denial of Benefits Blues

Her husband, before his suicide, had not done the necessary research regarding his life insurance policy, though Miss Alabama ’61 doesn’t think much research would’ve…

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Goldfish in Coffee Pots Talking Cars

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Luscious

Is that a goldfish in my coffee pot?” Lydia asked. “His name’s Luscious. You know fish have healing powers? Talking to them can extend your…

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Inside

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Outside

The first thing I remember is the sound. The sound of her heartbeat, of blood surging, of fluid swishing into and out of places it…

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Sehr Flash: Fiction Becomes Music

(from “sehr Rasch,” a German tempo marking for very fast music) Good flash makes us think for longer than the time we’re reading it. In…

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Leaning In

They stripped for each other on Skype, and he did a simulated drum cymbals accompaniment with his tongue against his teeth as she tossed her…

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