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Cassandra

Emma Brousseau

I swallow the teeth. Dream logic tells me to aim for my stomach, trusting the acid to burn through enamel and bone. But several of the molars are sucked down the wrong, fleshy tube to my lungs. The tip of a canine presses against the fragile membrane of my right lung as I gasp. The […]

The Organic Host

Anne Ramallo

Over the heavy walnut desk, the infofield displays several feet of electronic paperwork. Lilith Ambrose is three thumbprints and one e-signature away from being joined with Jacob for eternity. Again. In the weeks after they found out that Jacob’s cancer was back, that it had spread to his lungs and his brain, and that it […]

Green Thumb

Jill Baguchinsky

The experts touted survival rates early on, like surviving was a good thing.

June Nova

Janae Newsom

Winner of Voyage’s 2021 Book-Pitch First Chapters Contest Chapter Thirty: Free? ⚘ Journal Entry 9: Prompt: What have you learned about yourself from being in anger management? Monday, May 9th, 6 AM My mama once said, these streets don’t hold our memories, we do. Just because something is gone doesn’t mean it ever left. Pieces […]

Time and Tide

Adam Stemple

“Come home, son,” he says. “It’s time to come home.” His voice sounds tinny, like he’s talking through a phone, which is ridiculous. We haven’t needed phones to communicate for decades. And besides, he’s standing right next to me. Only he isn’t. Because I’m gone, soaring, gliding, banking on the wind—and yes, there’s wind there, […]

Love Song

Minglu Jiang

We sit and listen as your favorite album plays in the car. The singer has a thick, solid voice, backed by heavy drum beats and soaring guitar, punchy bass. You tell me that next time, I can choose. I want to hold your hand so badly. In the dark, nobody will see us. You don’t […]

False Gills

Ariel Marken Jack

Lorna says if we eat enough mushrooms our bodies will learn to grow gills.

The Battle of Arroyo Escondido

Wes Blalock

Standing beneath the overhead canopy of a Phillips 66, out of the desert sun, Delbert opened his wallet to take out the department credit card. He hesitated and withdrew Stella’s photo, her blond hair and piercing blue eyes smiling up at him. But all he could hear was her scornful, “Did you have to eat […]

No One’s Prince

Sunil Bhatia

Third Place Winner of Voyage’s Summer 2021 First Chapters Contest judged by Bestselling Author Sona Charaipotra . The spoon stopped at the tip of my mouth when he stormed in. He didn’t knock or nothing, just came in like he does and the look on his face meant something bad came down. Something bad always […]

Aunt Taveaj’s Wolf-Friendly Sweet Shoppe

Marie Croke

Now in those days, wolves did not wear their teeth around their neck; they wore them in their mouth. They did not decorate their threshold with to-the-quick nail clippings; they allowed their claws to grow and curl. They did not keep their fur trimmed neatly, selling to their neighbors to stuff their pillows; they let […]

Afterdeath

Loretta Chefchaouni

Second Place Winner of Voyage’s Summer 2021 First Chapters Contest judged by Bestselling Author Sona Charaipotra Content Warning: Child death . “Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.” —Rumi . The dead are loud tonight. More than usual I should say, since loud […]

Liar Stones

Jason Pfister

That first week of no school, at the summer house, this is our world: drinking Amaro and soda and spitting olive pits and dying and being reborn over and over again in the icy creek. The water is like death; once it touches you, you’re brand new.

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