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The Wren Has Gone To Roost

William Cass — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

I’d just gotten off the bus and was hobbling more than usual when the boy came out of the trees, pointed a knife at me, and said, “Give me your money, old man.” It was nighttime on a dark stretch of sidewalk, so I didn’t have a good look, but I guessed he was sixteen…

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Plath, 1963

Cyn Grace Sylvie — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

(After Rick Barot)

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Certain Words

Kris Spencer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Dogfish

Harriet Burns — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

I suggested fishing and then showed up to the dock without any gear. Mira showed up with a cooler full of Fat Tug. The sun above us is an infected eye, red and squinting. Its gaze illuminates the boat’s railing, coral pink, anemone orange. Below, the churning sea is pale yellow, the colour of melted…

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Picking Pieces

Isabel Hoin — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Waiting For Cancer

Pepper Trail — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Reconnecting In Boddam

River Snowdrop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

i imagine the whales, the tall slick of them; where lichen sucker and chew bone-white carcass, these live rarities dance in spiral under crystalline waves. beige islands beget seabirds, curiosity. i have my fish messily eaten, a damage, i have my own teeth picking out spears. man fears meat. fears fear. he told me solemn-eyed,…

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Reverie For Old Pines

Emerson Riter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

My muscles sang when I pushed myself out of Mitzy’s outworn Ford pickup. She had jabbered like a Steller’s jay about how she was so happy I was finally home, and how she and the others had thought I’d never come back, and how Debbie-Ann down the cutoff road’s husband had died and why she…

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Living Vibrancy

B Center — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Chemical Weathering

Chloé Eathorne — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Alchemy, duckweed. Brine‑veiled, a delicate corrosion, neither green nor blue, the space in between—like oxidized lullabies. A surface reaction. Sun-damaged plastic lawn chairs. A ruptured glaze, motion under sky and salt. Furred blush. A bruise grown fond of itself. For balance, green weight laid over stone, like a cool hand on the fever of old…

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