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A Seamstress Joins a Bodice to a Skirt
Amelia M. BurtonThe best part of sewing a garment is pressing the finished seams. The glide of the iron over parallel stitches, two lines a quarter inch apart. The coy slip of the edge rolling under itself. The joining obscured. My hand follows the iron, satin clammy with heat, then reverses back over the seam, skin licking […]
Sister, Come to Me
Shaenon K. GarrityThey didn’t say memes back then. So what did they call it? At the end, in the dark, Lizzie tried to remember. An in-joke but not a joke, a sign for the initiated. A Bob Dobbs sticker on the inside of your locker or a battered copy of an underground comic book. A way for […]
Mother Mollusk
Marisca PichetteMuna is getting worse. Scales form around his scars, creep up his veins and cluster under his elbows. He won’t be able to stay on the shore with us much longer. In a matter of days, he’ll seek the sea. “Let me go.” He gasps his words, his voice rough and unfamiliar. Not the voice […]
What The Living Carry
Andy BoyleTheir men and boys were gone before they’d crossed into Nebraska. Teddy was the last to go. Mary never thought he would make it as long as he did due to his temper and his drinking. But he did. Then one night, he went out to take a piss while they were camped inside a […]
Chapter 1: Ahalya: A Novel Excerpt from Untouchable
Jordan LeggAhalya ran her fingers through the folds of the veil before taking it from her handmaid’s arm. Its deep red fabric was fine and thin between her fingers, and she whirled it around her body in a fluttering scarlet typhoon before draping it over her head. The slender, dark-haired princess looked over her shoulder at […]
Overture: A Novel Excerpt from Mordent
Sara McKinneyWe met in college, which is to say, Ohio. A small liberal arts school you’ve probably heard of and regard with either approval or suspicion, depending on your politics. Me, enrolled in the music conservatory, and her, art history, although really, her heart was set on baking. It was a coffee shop sort of thing, […]