Volume 9 Number 1

A New Family

Dylan worked at a shoe store, then a burrito place, and finally a new age bookstore at the heart of a half-abandoned mall, where practically…

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Off Season

Dad started hearing stuff on the shortwave about making preparations and found a company on the Internet that built bunkers with “no paper trail or…

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Dog Messiah

We didn’t know Co Anh’s dog had been pregnant until it gave birth. The offspring was disfigured. Widow Co Anh turned this horror into luck….

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Beth

We’ve taken to sucking bathwater from our washcloths, siphoning the cloth-sweetened water through the gaps in our clenched teeth. My sister says it’s like the…

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Shirley Temple

I sat at the bar, my feet swinging from a stool. Jacksonville, 1972. The adults crowded into a circular booth in the corner. Men pinched…

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from Nothing in the Dark

The singer at Montag’s was new, a tall redhead in a dark blue dress. Her pitch was shaky and she held on to the microphone…

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The Good Phone

We called it the good phone, the downstairs telephone mounted to the kitchen wall, to differentiate it from the only other telephone in our house:…

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Whales in Minnesota

My friend says that if you lie on a frozen lake with your ear against the ice, you can hear it shifting way down below….

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Volleyball

I am driving the school bus to a volleyball tournament forty minutes away at Little Wound School in Kyle, South Dakota. It’s only me and…

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Laundry Girl

Bubbling shells still sleep under the sand. They are making forms between their tight closed rims. White shirts are fluttering. The laundry girl kept bubbling…

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