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Stories

Poem of the Week
In the Nablus apartment she remembers rolling hills of citrus.
Story of the Week
Bobby doesn’t want more birthdays. He wishes the crash had killed him.
Readers' Narratives
My father said he didn’t believe in the afterlife, in God, or Jesus either.
iPoems
You won’t allow me to play with your baby, nor come live in your home.
Readers' Narratives
Time is changing. November 1. Clocks back one hour. New season.
Readers' Narratives
Readers' Narratives
Readers' Narratives
Since I didn’t have pets, Pawpaw sometimes let me play with the food.
Fiction
Today was the first day of her new life, and she was on an adventure.
Story of the Week
I’m not afraid of dying. I’ve died on camera before. It’s not so bad.
Interviews
You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.
Interviews - Audio/Video
If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.
Poetry
I never entered no-man’s-land by any light brighter than the palest moon.
Poem of the Week
You move rocks, run water, check the path of mouse and rabbit.
Poem of the Week
A man and a woman joined by newspaper pages culture to politics.
iPoems
To keep the baby safe, we sealed the house as if against bad weather.
iPoems
We’re phosphorus, we’re this glowing rock under UV light in the mineral shed.
Poem of the Week
I confessed to loving another man, streetlamp sequin on a rain puddle. Later, in sleep, your arms opened to me. Mid-snore compromise.
Graphic Stories
People assume married cartoonists are laughing all the time.
Story of the Week
Marshall and Mrs. Checchi, it seemed, had this philosophy in common.
Story of the Week
The everlasting shines through in the threshold between worlds.
Interviews
Sex can be revelatory. Essential nature emerges in sex.
iStories
If you play, decide three things: the rules, stakes, and quitting time.
Poem of the Week
My soul’s parts know little and don’t care whether I live or die.
Fiction
“There’s life after birth! That’s what jails and lethal injections are for!”
Story of the Week
There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue itself.
Classics
I like that it’s not me you pine for, and like that I don’t pine for you.
Story of the Week
I looked up how much everything would cost. Giving birth: $9,000.