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Image is a color photograph of a lit streetlamp at night; title card for the new micromemoirs, "Snap, Stacked, & Night Sky with Generations," by Rebe Huntman.

Snap, Stacked, & Night Sky with Generations by Rebe Huntman

March 13, 2024

  Snap Not when your mother makes you go to the dance. You tell her you’re sick. Really sick this time. See? You’ve broken out in hives. Not when she slathers you in calamine lotion & stuffs you into tights…

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Image is a color photograph of discarded reddish flowers on the edge of dark, water-splashed rocks; title card for the flash essay, "The Little List of Boys and Men Who Vanished," by Claudia Monpere.

The Little List of Boys and Men Who Vanished by Claudia Monpere

March 6, 2024

  Number one had cerulean blue eyes and haloed heat as we danced at Sadie Hawkins in our matching flannel shirts and he wandered night stairs and stars almost as stoned as his mother and strummed “Dust in the Wind”…

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Image is a color photograph of a yellow toy ambulance; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "The Novel, The Map," by Hannah Grieco.

The Novel, The Map by Hannah Grieco

February 14, 2024

  Content Warning—suicidal ideation in a child   Right after my forty-sixth birthday, I begin writing a novel. It’s about a mother who loses all sense of personal identity while taking care of her very ill son. A mother who…

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Image is a black-and-white photograph of a crib mobile; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Still Awake," by Julie Marie Wade.

Still Awake by Julie Marie Wade

February 7, 2024

  For Margaret Wise Brown In the great green room once known as The Earth, we stretched out in dry grass and stared up at the sky, arms akimbo behind our heads. Elbows for miles. There was a telephone, once…

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Image is a color photograph of a judge's gavel and a pink piggy bank; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "Pawn," by Starr Davis.

Pawn by Starr Davis

January 17, 2024

  I am on the East Side of Columbus, Ohio. One street over from Lev’s Pawn Shop is an abandoned storefront where I met my ex-lover when we were in high school. He cuts hair now in a barbershop on…

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Image is a color photograph of sketched body parts; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Index of Body Parts," by Kim Magowan.

Index of Body Parts by Kim Magowan

January 10, 2024

  Elbow The so-called “funny bone,” the most sensitive bone in the body. A tap here feels excruciating. The hardest point of the body, according to the scary mass email my mother-in-law sends (subject heading: FOR WOMEN!). “If assaulted, attack…

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Image is a color photograph of person looking at a bike; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "Hott Lipps" by Matthew Clark Davison.

Hott Lipps by Matthew Clark Davison

November 15, 2023

  “Breaker one-nine, breaker one-nine. This is Hott Lipps. Anybody out there?” I release the button, light a cigarette, take a drag, then exhale. Today, no E., and almost nothing but static on the CB radio. The space heater tries, but…

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Image is a color photograph of a rusted helmet on display; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "This Shattering" by Wiam El-Tamami.

This Shattering by Wiam El-Tamami

September 13, 2023

  just before dawn   I. It started in the daytime, my sister says, I remember the light. We were watching TV. Mama and Baba were in their room, asleep. We heard noises that sounded like fireworks. It happened at…

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Image is a black-and-white photograph of someone standing behind a broken glass; title card for the new creative nonfiction microflash, "When Doves Cry," by Anne Panning.

“When Doves Cry” by Anne Panning

September 6, 2023

  Prince tipped extravagantly. He’d leave $100 bills tucked under the ketchup. He did not condescend, but would wiggle his little fanny all the way out the door. The limos gobbled him up and deposited him at Paisley Park. Lavender…

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Image shows six cartons of fresh red raspberries from above on a wooden table; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "How We Carry the Weight of It," by Will McMillan.

How We Carry the Weight of It by Will McMillan

August 16, 2023

  We arrive in the raspberry fields when it’s dark. It’s dark when we pile out of our secondhand pickup. My father, my mother. My brother and me. It’s dark when we start walking the rutted, sopping dirt road that…

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