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Flash Fiction
Cindra Spencer
The Life Cycle of Shoe Maggots, Place Values, and Other Lessons from Second Grade
Moveable Type
Tim Hanson
Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
Mercy
E. M. Stormo
Sacrifice
Crab TV
Emerson Henry
Or Current Resident
Anushree Prashant
Family Heirloom
Christian Barragan
Of Your Choosing
Ben Tari
One Less Like
Neil Clark
Last Night I Dreamt of a Fascist Dictator
Lauren Davis
His Hair Combed Sideways
Lisa Mottolo
The Birds Were Fools
Malena Salazar Maciá (trans. from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei)
Survivor
Chelsea Stickle
The Marionette
D. S. Levy
Haunted Mansion
Lauren Villa
Fish Bone
Christina Rosso
The Mark
Joaquin Fernandez
The Girl with the Red Lipstick
Michelle Ross
Knife Rules
James Cato
Modern Witch Hunt
Why I Decided to Leave Glenrio
Jason Teal
The Bleeding Well
Swamp Angel
Short Story
Ken Farrell
Raincoat, the Holyman
Nora Shank
Places to Find God
Fran-Claire Kenney
The Stuff of Horror Movies
Alex Creece
Empty Nests
Shanna Merceron
A Gallery of My Own
Jessica Drake-Thomas
What She Seems
Olivia Hodgson
The Mourning Key
John Talbird
Gold Star
Subo Wijeyeratne
Anglefish
Megan Schmid
Guilt
Susanne Brent
Last Words
Gerri R. Gray
Dust to Dust
Bernardo Villela
A Little Cut
Russ Allison Loar
Christmas Blessings
Jodee Stanley
Doors
David Thorndill
Mystery in the Convent
Rich Glinnen
The Mariachi
Jennifer Lynn Krohn
The Eyes
Carlie Thompson
The Boat
Richard Cochnar
The Tower
Creative Nonfiction
Meiloni Erickson
Shit
Alex Kazemi
Death Also Offers Guided Tours
Joe Manus
Mourning Dove
Betina Entzminger
Handling Shit and Finding Love
Liza Sofia
The Beautiful Corpse
Elizabeth Duluoz
Flushing Away Pride
Essay / Short Criticism
Scott Beard
Animal Imagery to Convey Plot and Characterization in The Duchess of Malfi
Anna Harberger
Blurred Lines: Queering Sameness & Destructive Difference in Wuthering Heights
Bud R. Berkich
Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle – An Analysis: Merricat Blackwood as Anti-Hero
Margaret Stetz
A Haunted War: The Return of The Return of the Soldier
Miranda Ramirez
Exploring the Paralleled Multiracial Experiences in Ceremony, Borderlands
Poetry
Jane Yolen
Masking / Unmasking
Socrates in Camouflage
Skin Lies
Robert Campbell
The Queen is Not a Garden
To Find the Queen, You Must Kill Animal-You
Destroying Angels Are the Queen’s Pale Children
Silent Supper
Mela Blust
idolatry
thirteen
to feel god’s light
Dick Bentley
Carpathians
Anna Schoenbach
It Wasn’t Me in the Mirror
Robin Wright
Secret Life
December Lace
Lust #7
Jesse Miksic
Double Bind
In Service to the Cycle
Somatic Sign System
An Impossible Exchange
Christina Strigas
The Ghosts That Stay
Killing Spree
Dead Wife
Elizabeth York Dickinson
The Possibility of Resurrection
Cash Myron Toklas
There Is a Man with Fifty Heads and a Hundred Hands
How I Lost the War
The One-Eyed Man Who Sleeps Beneath the Floor
Hestia
The Chaos of Childbirth
RC deWinter
The Great Masquerade
Andrew Lafleche
Seven
C. Kubasta
Aftermath
Cardinal Directions
Owen Lubozynski
Jaws
Femme Felix
Perversions
Katharina Bezushko
Mental
Shaken
Nubibus Fatuus
Courtney Hilden
How to Forget Their Name
Gregory Kimbrell
Insignificance
Translation: Contract ~ Survival
Translation: Attack ~ Rating
Rebecca Pyle
Forgotten
Carter Vance
Where the Light Gets In
Clare M. Bercot Zwerling
The Memory
Lori Noto
Poem Scrawled on the Back of a Funeral Pamphlet
Eleanor Rector
Suddenly
Butterfly Kisses
Gustavo Zamora
El Coyote
La Malinche
Charles Kell
Egon Schiele’s Hideous Phantom
Sadist
Anatomy of an Enigma
Nicholas Minges
Dave Saves the Bass
Alla Vilnyansky
Pikuach Nefesh
Pinnochio
Clark A. Pomerleau
Old Growth
Landscape
Emma Wynn
Our Predators
Drought
J. V. Birch
Wolf Man
Siyun Fang
I Suspect
Teresa T. Chappell
Hat Trick
Blood Poisoning or Social Anxiety
Art
Cameron Maynard
Overnight
V. Holecek
Qualitat Des Lebens 01
Totems
Priestess
Der Turm
Qualitat Des Lebens 03
Janessa Mulepati
Among Masks
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