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Stories

Poem of the Week
Turns out my body’s a dollar sweet potato, her screen said.
Narrative High School Writing Contest
We could have everything and still be hurt.
Readers' Narratives
Growing up medicated, I used drugs to assuage unwanted feelings.
Story of the Week
I’m in a fight for my career and the SOB won’t be there for me.
Poem of the Week
ursula says she’s seen everyone she loves in an apple, save herself.
Story of the Week
When the population was whiter, they fawned over the Korean.
Story of the Week
With cane in hand I felt a twinge of superiority to the crutch people.
One-Act Plays
We enjoyed the infidelity. A great deal more than they seemed to.
Story of the Week
They retire for the night, he to his bedroom and she to hers. What of it?
iPoems
The kissed fingerpad touched wet with wine orbiting.
Poetry
If every cowboy has a sad song, I’m afraid you are mine to perform.
Fiction
Morie Johnson was successful. I am not a hooker. I am only a thief.
Poem of the Week
I am uneasy with the thrusting of green shoots outside in the night.
Fiction
“You’re great with people. Ever since you got over the drooling problem.”
Poem of the Week
I am the king of doing wheelies on the Stingray bicycle of my mind.
iPoems
Even our tenderest buds and shoots endure the late snow.
iPoems
Chase Twichell
Story of the Week
Some types of pain are just too deep to touch, are better left alone.
Nonfiction
I drank every night until late and drew earth-shaking conclusions.
Spring Contest Winners
I’m covetous of my worldly neighbor. And he’s not accommodating.
iStories
He’d always wanted to kiss her thigh dimples but never dared.
Readers' Narratives
Fiction
“No, no,” we say. “We’re fine! Really! We love things just the way they are!”
Photography & Art
Theodora Shure
N30B Winners
Today the game was to try to catch one of the cats in a pillowcase.
Poem of the Week
Omens from the Lord, or Nature, the clouds, some darker silhouette.
First & Second Looks
It was not my business to observe him, but I could hardly help it.