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Edward J. McCoul
Dec 23, 20246 min read
A Christmas Convergence
Maggie Turner walked briskly down Elm Street, her scarf pulled tight against the biting December wind. She wasn’t sure what had brought...
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Angela Curnutt
Oct 15, 202422 min read
Just You and I
(content warning: this story includes references to domestic violence.) As a cradle Catholic, I always knew you needed your faith to do...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jul 14, 20245 min read
A Brief Remembrance of My Father
My father had moments of crystalline clarity in which he would say something that would stop me in my tracks, making me pause to catch my...
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E.C. Traganas
Feb 29, 20249 min read
Stone Castings
Herculaneum, 79 AD (Back in the 1980s, over three hundred carbonized skeletal remains were discovered submerged along the coastline of...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Feb 1, 202411 min read
Leaving New Orleans
“This is my favorite part of the drive,” said Alberto. We were cruising over the 18-mile span of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, en route...
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Kathleen Chamberlin
Dec 1, 202322 min read
At the Corner of Humboldt and Spruce
There was something about the house at the corner of Humboldt and Spruce that gripped the imagination and drew the eye to it. It wasn't...
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Robert D. Vivian
Nov 15, 20234 min read
The Call of Every Day
Must be birdsong or the slightest nudge of breeze kissing your naked ankles and then the soft folds of your eyelids deep inside a dream...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Mar 30, 202319 min read
Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
Jan 15, 202314 min read
Where Can I Flee?
1 It was a cool fall evening, the sky gray and the air still. I tied the goldenrod with a blue ribbon and held it in my hand as I walked,...
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Yasmin Gudino
Dec 30, 20223 min read
Choice Is What Gives Me Hope
There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself. – Neville Goddard I believe that some people are...
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Shawn Casselberry
Jul 7, 20227 min read
Dog God
When Sarah’s beloved chocolate lab Sadie began acting strange, she took her to the vet. “What seems to be the problem?” asked Lance, a...
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Shawn Casselberry
Jun 2, 20225 min read
Shell
Maddie was a widow who lived by the beach. Every morning and evening she walked along the shore remembering her husband David and their...
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