Microfiction

This Is Very Concerning

Photo by Mauro Lima on Unsplash by Jessica Klimesh I turn on the national news and am surprised to see that the anchorperson, Lydia Gooseberry, has a beak where her mouth used to

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Secret Recipe

Photo by Danil Aksenov on Unsplash by Christine H. Chen Ah Ma asks what kind of gwei-lo food I have concocted again when I brought over a warm gooseberry pie. Reading glasses perched on her

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Love Buzz Cut, A Story About A Girl

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash by Ani King Named Tiffany, with long brown hair, who plays basketball and softball, who prefers pop but is listening to Nirvana because you picked them, who

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Goat Song

Photo by Chase Eggenberger on Unsplash by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio When the summer girl sang to them, everything slowed: the browsing, the chewing, the four-chambered bellies filling, the kids’ frolic, the nannies’ milk.

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Girl, You Ain’t Missing Nothing

Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash by Dawn Tasaka Steffler After Pam’s fourth miscarriage, she notices how little her friends console her now — a few broken-heart emojis / some tough-girl muscle-arm emojis

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How To Plant A Garden In The Apocalypse

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash by Kathryn Kulpa  1.     Remember that winter chills the earth each year, chills with hardness and refusal and what will look like death, but that cold, bone-chip soil

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