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Stories

Poetry
Whatever You Can
by Taije Silverman
Cat food smells even unopened like vomit and I don’t trust cats.
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Fiction
Whatever’s Left of Normal
by Don Evans
Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.
Poetry
What’s Happening
by Lauren K. Watel
Where will we go and how will we steer when the cars are gone?
Nonfiction
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
by Lynn Freed
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Narrative Outloud
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
by Lynn Freed
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Narrative High School Writing Contest
When Everything Changed
by Makee Anderson
Poem of the Week
When Giving Is All We Have
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. Together we are green.
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Poetry
When He Left: Index of First Lines
by Anne Marie Rooney
What I became was not pretty. Like a needle on water-warped paper.
Story of the Week
When I Come to Be Old
by Jonathan Swift
When I come to be old, I resolve not to tell the same story over and over.
Story of the Week
When I Knew Stephen Crane
by Willa Cather
If he could not evade a serious question by a joke, he bolted.
Poetry
When I Lose and Other Poems
by Richard Kenney
Re: murdering democracy, oiling the shore, shearing the rain forest.
Poem of the Week
When I Think of Early Romance I Think of Fishing
by Jessica Lee
I wouldn’t know what to do with the body, gills pumping like an accordion.
Poem of the Week
When My Alabama
by William Fargason
there is no place on this earth I can run from my own prejudice
Poem of the Week
When My Brother Tells Me I'm Obsessed with Sadness
by William Fargason
it’s hard not to be obsessed with your own shadow I don’t tell him
Fiction
When People Fall
by Ann Beattie
When an adult falls, children are stunned and cry, “Mommy! Mommy!”
Fiction
When the Flock Changed
by Maud Newton
She had yellow cat eyes that she insisted were also blond.
Poem of the Week
When Things That Never Happen Happen
by Bob Hicok
The next time we made love, I looked for the fox looking down at me.
Story of the Week
When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing
by Irene Keliher
I had forgotten how to breathe, and then I learned again, all at once.
Poem of the Week
When You Write the Story
by Edward Hirsch
When you write the story of being a father don’t leave out the joy.
Story of the Week
Where Are We Going?
by Mary Taugher
I hightailed it out of the hospital like my ex-wife was a prison I’d escaped.
Fall Contest Winners
Where Birds Do Not Fly
by Taryn Browne
Louise watched from the shadow. She was looking for somewhere to land.
Story of the Week
Where Is My Boy?
by Aggie Zivaljevic
The war was about to begin, and the four boys were
in charge.
First & Second Looks
Where the River Bends
by Barry Raine
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Nonfiction
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
by Abraham Brennan
The onus is on you, because you care about your car and your life.
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Fiction
Where Tourists Don’t Go
by Tiphanie Yanique
While they stand in line Robin leans into his chest. They don't talk.
Short Shorts
Where’s the Beauty, Jimmy?
by Holly Wilson
It’s like his bottom half is not man but a strong horse.
Story of the Week
Whippoorwill
by Elizabeth de la Portilla
A whippoorwill called, a lonely voice among the cedars.
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Story of the Week
Whirlwind
by Barry Targan
The lion was still near them, stalking. Crazed against its cautionary nature.
Poem of the Week
White Butterfly
by Martine Bellen
Across sage flats, tundra, and bleeding hearts, she escapes.
Nonfiction
White Fish
by Lynn Ahrens
There isn’t a nice Jewish boy in sight—not that I’m looking for one.