The woman went abroad and began to lose her grip on things.
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“One never changes the past, Roshelle says. Fundamental misunderstanding. Each incarnation of reality must be internally consistent—that is, if one goes backward in time, it’s not a disruption of the plan; it’s what always happened.”
Read MoreGoldilocks by Susan Holcomb
Sometimes my daughter and I become wolves, just the way we were when she was born.
Read MoreHouse Calls by James Sullivan
That look in her eyes. That look she’d gotten in church after Dad. Eyes like before a stormy wave crashes on a sailboat, when you know you’ve tried it all and you’re done done done.
Read MoreMermaids by Emily Lowe
They cut the tongues out quickly, cleanly, like a wire through wet clay.
Read MoreLimes by Alexander Lumans
He sticks his hand in his pocket for a brush but pulls out melted gray taffy instead. He thinks, can only think, of that painted tree in the rain.
Read MoreTaking Your Formerly Human Lover on a Road Trip to Nowhere by Angela Liu
I break eye contact and focus on the road. There is nothing but asphalt and leveled plains. Something scrapes behind me, and I know you’ve hit bone.
Read MoreGreater than Gold by Areej Quraishi
You won’t believe me, but an angel visits me in my dreams.
Read MoreVertebrae by Jess Masterton
Her bones had been bleached, stripped of all muscles and tendons, and you called me to your side as though I were your own.
Read MoreWheat Simulator By Alexander Metz
But, if you didn’t think about that, didn’t think about the unreality of everything, it was great. I couldn’t have said how long I played Steer Rope, or how many steers I managed to rack up. For me, the whole point was not to think.
Read MoreTransmissions from the Baby Monitor by Sarah Gerkensmeyer
“You tell us death, and you tell us pain, and you tell us there are good things, too.”
Read MoreBefore I Stop by Katie Kalahan
I see a woman running towards me at the farthest edge of the path between Jimi Hendrix and Sam Smith parks. She's light on her feet, but tense, taut, and I feel that she's familiar.
Read MoreEagle Beach by Maxwell Suzuki
There are echoes of a childhood and a boy I can just barely remember. There has been an ache in my stomach for me to return.
Read MoreFairy Tale by Sharmila Voorakkara
“The children stare into space. No one here knows what too much means.”
Read MoreGeography by Tita Ramirez
None of this was ever a problem before, but sitting there looking at that pee stick, it hit me: if I was going to have to explain the world to someone else, it was a huge problem. I had nine months to learn everything. More like eight, really.
Read MoreMarie by Eliza Sullivan
Bones tell stories. They hold intangible memories.
Read MoreOptiDream Third-Generation 3Gen Original Dream Machine 100+ Stimuli & More by Devon Halliday
but at some point in every dream I end up scraping my teeth out of my mouth
Read MoreGhosting by Sarp Sozdinler
I imagined his spidery fingers hovering over his phone all night, at once touching and not touching it like the soft spots of my body.
Read MoreMovie Stubs by Sophia Veltfort
In the weeks leading up to my friend’s wedding, instead of studying for the GRE, I’d made mental tallies of people I dreaded but could reasonably expect to see in Poland.
Read MoreA Longer and Slightly More Complicated History of Her Heart by Mary Jones
She thought she knew of everything that could happen to the human heart, it seemed most of it had happened already to her mother.
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