Day: June 20, 2024

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Issue 14

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Stories Trending Gooseberry Crossword Pride Edition Submissions Are Always Open

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How To Weed A Marriage Bed

Photo by Mister B. on Unsplash by Julianne Bond Because it has grown wild and unacceptable, sharpen the garden knife along the stone

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How To Survive A Marriage

Photo by okeykat on Unsplash by Julianne Bond Given that you are face down on the floor it will be harder than you

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Bounce House

Photo by Roseanna Smith on Unsplash by Tara Isabel Zambrano It’s just before Thanksgiving when the face of the eight-year-old girl flashes on

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Birthday

Photo by Michał Mancewicz on Unsplash by Tara Isabel Zambrano On my fifteenth birthday, Dad brings his lover—tall, bald, his jawline—a knife in

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The Paper Tree

Photo by Ussama Azam on Unsplash by Sandra Arnold She pulled the book from the top shelf, opened it on the table and

She Tells Me About Life in the Desert

Photo by Manny Becerra on Unsplash by Allison Field Bell The way a cactus can retain pounds of liquid to sustain itself and

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This Isn’t What I Want it to Be

Photo by Ussama Azam on Unsplash by Allison Field Bell In the bathtub, she sits across from me. Our legs intertwined underwater. This

The Wonder Years (Paradise is Found)

Photo by Enguerrand Blanchy on Unsplash by Alex Stolis It was the Wild Wild West, it was rain that never stopped, a cold

The Wonder Years (Paradise is Lost)

Photo by Jørgen Håland on Unsplash by Alex Stolis The grandmother speaks broken English, Paradise has never seen her in anything but an

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