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Another Knock, Del Elizabeth
CW: death Having guests over has become a significantly bigger deal since humans became second on the food chain. Constant state of...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 2 min
Honeysucke, Lotte van der Krol
The air is honeysuckle sweet from the summer warmth still hanging between the trees, resting on the moss, clinging to your skin. But my...
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- Jun 14, 2021
- 2 min
The River Washes, Lotte van der Krol
I remember the river. The water, when it was not me, when I was not it. I remember the pain, the shock of cold. The stars in the sky....
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- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
The Depth at Which Spider Crabs are Found, Keely O'Shaughnessy
Each weekend, Mother would cook while Dad dove for baskets of spiny spider crabs hauled up from the seafloor. Until one afternoon, he...
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- Jun 12, 2021
- 8 min
Noah, Thanisha Chowdhury
CW: death, suicide, war, violence They smelled his tobacco-stained breath before they heard him, boots booming against the floor. Sir...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Woman Who Only Comes Out at Night Lives Rent-Free in Your Cupboard, Derek Heckman
She knows when it’s safe. Your house has a different feel when you’re asleep, a stillness that is somehow palpable, the dust motes all...
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- Jun 9, 2021
- 8 min
Home Sweet Home, Joe Woodhouse
I sat on the sofa watching the crack in the ceiling travel from the corner to the light. It crawled and throbbed like a stringy vein,...
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- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
Lemons, Kate Hargreaves
Winn scrapes the seeds from a lemon slice and lines them up along the edge of the table. The split skin at the edges of her nails stings...
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- Jun 7, 2021
- 4 min
Bees/Not Bees, Kate Hargreaves
Bees “I can’t. I’m allergic.” The swarm careens from window to skylight and back over Winn’s head like a cartoon cloud. “Can’t what?”...
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- Jun 4, 2021
- 8 min
Spread the Spores, Emmauelle Knappenberger
CW: gore, body horror, possession If anyone had bothered to ask, we wouldn’t be able to tell them why we were in the forest or why we...
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- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
5 Signs that Your Mother is Reabsorbing You Into Her Womb, Ben Larned
At some point, most millennials will have to consider moving home. Yes, you too. The boomers left us with higher rent, lower pay and...
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- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
The Field Trip, Kurt Newton
Previously published in "The Ultimate PerVERSEities", 2010 Visiting the cow forest, the lecturer explains how Gaia needed saving, so the...
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- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
Slow Children, Kurt Newton
Previously published in "The Ultimate PerVERSEities", 2010 The signs are placed at intervals along the road to warn drivers of the danger...
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- May 19, 2021
- 7 min
Adaba, Nicks Walker
Somewhere nearby, but quite lost, there is a place. I call it The Brownie House. I call it The Brownie House because I am a Brownie. ...
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- May 18, 2021
- 4 min
Dream Job, Kellene O'Hara
January passed like a dream – a muddled memory of Mondays and other days. All faint and foggy. I don't know where I was in January. I was...
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- May 15, 2021
- 3 min
Vulture Dust, Josh Sippie
CW: mentions of gore There is another. He sits alone around a smoldering campfire, more smoke than flame. It blocks out the moons...
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- May 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Sheep Called My Name, Kristine Perkins
CW: mention of blood Sheep's mews turned to words. Slowly at first like ocean waves nudging ships into stormy water. “Sigrid,” they...
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- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
holes in the earth, Audrey Hawkes
When the first hole appears in Cora’s backyard that summer, all the neighborhood kids gather to see it. We stand barefoot in the grass...
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- May 5, 2021
- 11 min
I Dare You, Dani Herrera
I think something is following me. I don’t know what it is and I’m too scared to look. I know it has long nails. They scrape and dig into...
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- May 1, 2021
- 2 min
Full Moon Motel, Claudia Lundahl
CW: implied suicide At the intersection of three dirt roads there is a gas station. Inside the gas station the walls are paneled in oak...
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