Fiction
Fiction
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I wanted to wash my face and my feet. I wanted to be invited somewhere.
I was being led by something. So tender and raw inside of my body that I can’t point to a specific place — there was me before I had ever seen a dam.
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Family House
When Mom called to tell me the news that Memito had died, I went to go fish out that old photo from what could barely be called a closet.
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Bury Me Next to Your Name
“I need you to do something for me,” you said as you sat across from me in the locker room.
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Suit.co
A package sat on the seat next to her, a pleasant block-lettered label naming Landry Kent as the intended recipient.
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Diamond Blanket Sky
Like all nights, this one was muggy and black. It will rain tonight, he thought as he rubbed his arthritic knee. Maybe.
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Heaven is a Place on Earth
Out past the bridge, past the edge of town where the old houses give way to the stretch of firs that continues for a few miles before dissolving into shrubland, there is a little church
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All That Remains
I got my period two days ago but tell him I’m pregnant anyway.
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Rock Jenny
Jenny’s first change, like everybody else’s, was expected.
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Below
He’s figured it out. The only way out is to swim, to break water, to surface. It is a long way up, that is how far we have drowned.
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Female While in Mexico
Hers is a country of dead people. All those graves scattered over the hill, the white crosses, the angels with their hands on their chests, the pinwheels that spin over children’s graves.